A essential holy grail release for garage punk and psychobilly collectors, Gravest Gravy features previously unreleased October 1977 studio tracks from the legendary Memphis recording sessions that unleashed "Human Fly." Selected and mixed in the late 1980s by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy alongside producer Alex Chilton, these raw, rippin' early recordings were shelved for decades until now. Mastered directly from the analog source tapes in Nashville, this release includes classic early Cramps tracks—with two featuring Alex Chilton on organ. Stay sick!
“In October 1977, the Cramps ventured into Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee with producer and Cramps translator extraordinaire, Alex Chilton. The band had planned on recording their song ‘TV Set,’ as an A side, along with another track or tracks. Mr. Chilton told them the way he liked to work was to have a band record a lot of songs and from that they would pick the best of the bunch.
Luckily for Cramps fans everywhere, the band did just that. The first evidence of these sessions was unleashed upon an “unsuspecting human world” in April 1978 on the band’s own Vengeance Records label. It was a two song 7-inch with a version of the Trashmen’s 1963 classic ‘Surfin’ Bird,’ pushed well beyond its breaking point, forcing it to mutate into a much higher form of lowdown, and Jack Scott’s 1959 cool burning ‘The Way I Walk,’ dragged back into the Stone Age...
A essential holy grail release for garage punk and psychobilly collectors, Gravest Gravy features previously unreleased October 1977 studio tracks from the legendary Memphis recording sessions that unleashed "Human Fly." Selected and mixed in the late 1980s by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy alongside producer Alex Chilton, these raw, rippin' early recordings were shelved for decades until now. Mastered directly from the analog source tapes in Nashville, this release includes classic early Cramps tracks—with two featuring Alex Chilton on organ. Stay sick!
“In October 1977, the Cramps ventured into Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee with producer and Cramps translator extraordinaire, Alex Chilton. The band had planned on recording their song ‘TV Set,’ as an A side, along with another track or tracks. Mr. Chilton told them the way he liked to work was to have a band record a lot of songs and from that they would pick the best of the bunch.
Luckily for Cramps fans everywhere, the band did just that. The first evidence of these sessions was unleashed upon an “unsuspecting human world” in April 1978 on the band’s own Vengeance Records label. It was a two song 7-inch with a version of the Trashmen’s 1963 classic ‘Surfin’ Bird,’ pushed well beyond its breaking point, forcing it to mutate into a much higher form of lowdown, and Jack Scott’s 1959 cool burning ‘The Way I Walk,’ dragged back into the Stone Age...
