Hey Everybody!

I keep hearing Tony Bennett crooning the refrain from that fine old song:

“… The falling leaves
Drift by my window.
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold.”

What a wonderful time of year. (Less than 2 weeks to Thanksgiving Day time off and pumpkin pie).  What a wonderful week we have going here. Two FREE In-Store CONCERTS, Wednesday JJ Grey 5pm, Friday 4pm The Waybacks, then Friday at 10pm The Black Diamond Heavies rock the Café unmercifully. In between that the noble staff of Horizon Records is here at your service daily tirelessly organizing hundreds of money saving used CDs, LPs, DVDs, and BOOKs to set out for your shopping, listening and economic pleasure. We are also happily knee deep in a slew of recent releases that are making the rounds. The hotness includes everything from Q-Tip to The Old Crow Medicine Show to the amazing new Live Lou Reed concert CD/LP of his classic Berlin just out. I could go on for hours about the huge stacks of classic rock LPs we just took in or the rare indie punk 45’s that landed here yesterday or the batch of sparkling like new classical CDs now on the shelf and all over the floor for $2.99 -7.99 in our classical room or the you-won’t-find-it-anywhere-else-in-town LPs Spiritual Jazz, Carolina Funk, and Bad Boy Butch Batson we now have stock on (while they last!). Oops don’t forget the indie store only stuff like Ollabelle Live.

A long overdue retrospective from one of the 1980’s true originators - CHARLIE PICKETT! Includes many tracks featuring drumming by our old pal the late Johnny “Sticks” Galway of Greenville and on 2 tracks there’s bass from the very much still around (Suicide Mirrors, Babylon) John Ross of Greenville. YO.

“Situating themselves at the crossroads where Johnny Thunders and Son House intersect, Charlie whipped up a bad voodoo vibe of heroin rock and midnight blues. These guys were one of the undiscovered giants of the late eighties.” —PETER BUCK, REM

If you accept the premise put forth by Keith Richards that the title of “greatest rock and roll band in the world” is determined on a nightly basis, then we want to tell you about some guys that owned it on quite a few nights in the 80s, a band that, for a variety of reasons, fell through the cracks and never got the recognition they deserved.

The Waybacks are coming for an in-store concert Tower Of Song taping on Friday November 21, at 4pm.

The “Buck the Recession” Party with The Waybacks, scheduled for 7pm Nov. 21, has been CANCELED due to extreme weather. More information at albinoskunk.com

For The Waybacks, musical evolution is a way of life and a spectator sport. They’re as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, but their experiments are invariably sharp-witted and musically dazzling. They’ve been through changes for sure. Now configured as a four-piece with a full arsenal of acoustic and electric instruments, The Waybacks introduce Loaded, the boldest, rangiest and most exciting album of their career. Produced by Nashville bassist Byron House, the folky underpinnings are still there, but after years of playing a huge range of venues and festivals (including some major gigs with Grateful Dead founder
Bob Weir) and reconfiguring themselves around the hot guitar of James Nash and the fiddle virtuosity of Warren Hood, The Waybacks are enjoying a refreshed repertoire — one that’s touched by Memphis soul, roadhouse boogie, Parisian swing, classical, vintage blue pop and much more besides.