Harvey Scales - Trying To SurviveFrom his early 60s days as hip shaker Twistin Harvey to his late 70s nights on the light up dance floor in search of a Disco Lady, Harvey Scales survived scrapes with the pop charts, bankrupt record companies, walk outs, sit ins, strikes, price hikes, lay offs, and under table payoffs over a 40 year career. Compiled here for the first time are Scales Cuca and Magic Touch recordings, 27 slabs of cracker jack R&B, stomping northern soul, divorce ridden

is urgently felt

There are web sites with detailed histories of the group and several bootlegs of demos and live material from 1977-79

including a never before released version of Space Oddity

if you’re Dummy

the rationale being that they’re distinctively different from those on the parent LP

2LP - This 2-LP limited edition record store day release comes with a gorgeous gatefold full-color jacket with photos of the original 45 sleeves and extended liner notes from compiler William Gibson

it’s a thread that runs across the entire record:

or down in some canyon

Available on vinyl for the very first time this Record Store Day

When I listen back to that stuff it sounds like somebody finding their way

and then once in a generation

El Camino (2011)