VARIOUS ARTISTS - "Bold Beginnings: An Incomplete Collection of Louisville Punk 1978-83" CDV A Bold Beginnings: An Incomplete Collection of Louisville Punk 1978 83" CD (Noise Pollution, 2007) ESSENTIAL compilation (thanks to the fine folks at Noise Pollution) w in depth liner notes provided by NYC via KY guitar hero Tara Key (Babylon Dance Band, Antietam) and local filmmaker historian Jeff Jobson. This is Louisville Punk 101, ground zero, genesis, whatever you want to call it. Features tracks from No Fun (pre Circle X), The Endtables

and thanks to guitarist Taylor Chmura’s gig at Athens’ Kindercore Vinyl (which also happens to be owned by drummer Cash Carter)

but Brötzmann’s skill lies in using them to create extraordinary formal complexity and raw emotional power

a track that easily could’ve taken up the entirety of the B-side with no complaints

Nando Carneiro and André Geraissati

Other standouts include the reversed guitar snippets and loops of "Song to the Third

DJ Gant-Man

His guitar now has a stuttering rawness that makes for a beautiful contrast with the sweetly flowing vocal melodies

Johnstone sings over raucous and raw instrumentation

when he was younger

and the partnership also yielded some fine rockabilly-flavored tunes that Stewart recorded for the Kapp label in the late '60s

" the third official full-length LP from Chicago's long running rhythm-and-booze band Animal City

and in doing so