If You Want Me You Can Find Me

Few mid-60s garage tracks are as rhythmically odd or as weirdly atmospheric as the clumsily named Lawson & 4 More's hovering "If You Want Me You Can Find Me".  It positively drips with aloof cool.  Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre would kill to release something so unconventional yet still rooted in prime Stones pop.  Big Beat have made it available again on the b-side of the more conventionally scalding "Smart Bird".  At 10 quid it's not cheap but an original would no doubt have me living on baked beans and tap water for a month or two so it's a price I'm willing to pay.  Thanks once again to Record Turnover for the recent public service announcement.

Bud & Kathy "Hang It Out To Dry"

Due to the need for financial prudence, if I'd had a cartoon thought bubble above my head last Saturday afternoon as I walked to Monorail it would've read: "Right. Just get the Terry Malts record and, maybe the new Grimes cd but nothing more. Absolutely nothing more".  Then I heard this tremendously crunchy slice of co-ed garage scuzz :

Irresistible harmonica!  It's the lead track on a new Big Beat e.p. of tracks from the vaults of Southern California's Downey label.  It's a strong e.p. but unquestionably it's Bud & Kathy who provide the main feature. "Hang It Out To Dry" also appears on this Big Beat cd which is guaranteed to contain a smash or two.