Numero Group’s Bedhead 1992–1998 retrospective provides the Dallas band’s full discography and an eighty-page book of liner notes: “Life After Bedhead” by Matthew Galloway. Dust-to-Digital’s Parchman Farm production includes two CDs of Lomax’s recordings at the prison from 1947 – 1959, along with his photography and an essay by Bruce Jackson. But lately we’ve been digging into two gorgeous box sets from last year, and the lines are blurring. Could Alan Lomax’s mid-century field recordings of inmates’ work songs at a Mississippi penitentiary have directly influenced the shoegaze indie rock of Nineties Texas? It’s unlikely.
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