LP, Palmer Rockey , Rockey's Style

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LP, Palmer Rockey , Rockey\'s Style, Rock

STILL SEALED!!!

Label: Trunk Records – JBH050LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 15 Nov 2013
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Lounge, Disco, Soundtrack

The history of the Palmer Rockey record and the stories behind it are quite extraordinary. I first came across the actual LP about a decade ago when a copy I was curious about on ebay USA sold for about $200. I had no idea what it was, except it was music from a film I’d never heard of, by a man who looked from the front cover like some sort of weird rockabilly cult hero. Information about Palmer Rockey and the film was thin on the ground, but I discovered it had been mentioned by Jello Biafra in the RE Search Incredibly Strange Music Volume II book in 1994. I remained intrigued, simply because the rumours were that he was a remarkable con-artist and “disco lounge-lizard from hell”. After waiting waiting waiting for ten years I finally bagged one of the originals. When I finally got to hear it, I was thrilled, excited and instantly obsessed. I’ve no idea why. I started playing it all the time. Like all the time. Even my children started singing along. The more I listened the stranger it became; I also felt that Palmer Rockey had put a surprising amount of deeply buried emotion into making the album. I found his voice strangely moving, his ideas fascinating, and the whole thing belonged smack bang in the middle of David Lynch land.