Olivia Jean
“Night Owl” LP
scum stats: I’m pretty sure we pressed 500 copies on the color variant, but after 600+ releases, my memory is really getting foggy
WOOOOOHOOOOO happy release day!
We’ve been working a while for this one and am super-stoked to drop this album on to the world.
If I can be a little bit of a self-promoter, I’m proud to say I play drums on the title track of this LP.
OJ had a session scheduled and her regular drummer was unavailable, so I dropped in at the last minute.
We spent most of the day on a complex, complicated song that had lots of starts and stops and different parts and just quite different from structures I am used to playing.
(that song did not make the album, whatever it was called)
Then just before calling it a day, Olivia said that she had a little germ of an idea and that she wanted to just get it down to tape.
When she played that tasty little lead riff my eyes LIT up. I KNOW how to play drums to that shit! In my brain, I just locked in to Dave Grohl circa ’93 style and it was damn fun to jam along.
I really, really had no part in deciding that it was the lead single…but I certainly didn’t disagree with it either.
But honestly, the entire album is chock full of bangers. Covers of the Flaming Groovies and the beautifully odd and catchy Bollywood classic “Jaan Pehechan Ho” are stellar, while the originals are brimming with energy and enthusiasm and twangy surf style.
And man…the colored vinyl on this sumbitch is one of the most exquisite pieces of vinyl that Third Man Pressing has ever made.
To help celebrate, I’m giving away a test pressing of the “Night Owl” LP here. In the comments here, share a story about staying up late. No sleep. So tired you’re hallucinating. It can be true, it can be made up, just make it good. Winner is chosen at my discretion. Go!
I’m a high school Earth and Space Science teacher. I had an idea for a first day activity for my students: Give them each an old record, a cake-decorating turntable, putty, and paper. The task: make the record play using ONLY those materials! I was up ALL night going around town finding the materials and fiddling with them to make sure the kids could make it work without directions. I WAS TIRED AS ALL GET OUT (sorry, teacher language) on my FIRST day of school! But it was totally worth it – students DID make their records play with sheets of paper AND learned how records work, and tied it all together with a lesson about the Voyager Golden Record! Even played Blind Willie Johnson’s”Dark Was the Night” for them. All inspired by my passion for music and Third Man Records of course!!!