Resurrection Shuffle by Byron Coley
[alert_box type=”info”]This article was taken from the April 1998 edition of Spin. Not even mentioning Beefheart, it is a general piece about the releases of the record label Revenant, who released the Captain Beefheart rarities box set ‘Grow Fins’.[/alert_box] Since Smithsonian Folkways’ ballyhooed reissue of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, many of our world’s duller knobs seem to have been reborn as experts in roots music. So it’s a safe bet that spasms of delight will greet the latest release on avant-acoustic guitarist John Fahey’s label Revenant: Dock Boggs’ Country Blues (RVN 205), which collects the complete early (circa 1927-29) recordings by theRead More →