FAR AWAY IN AMERICA
Stephen Graziano, the manager and booking agent for Certain General, put together a label called SourMash Records in order to issue music by Phil Gammage and his associated bands in the US. As described by Graziano: “Stressing cooperation, sharing, and interdependence, both Certain General and Band of Outsiders, in partnership, financed, and organized, totally in-house, the first SourMash Records release, Far Away In America.” Band of Outsiders was a band that was reorganized from a late 1970’s power pop band called The Limit. Another band released on SourMash Records was Phil Gammage’s earlier band the Corvairs, which was in New York by this point.
Here follows a reprint of the Trouser Press Record Guide (4th Edition) listing for the SourMash family of bands. Though slightly garbled, it presents a fairly accurate overview of our thing in the 1980’s.
Holiday of Love EP (Labor) 1982 November’s Heat (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1984 Reissued w/ bonus tracks (Fr. New Rose) 1990; (Alive) 1999; (Fr. Fantastica) 2002 These are the Days (Fr. New Rose) 1986 Reissued w/ bonus tracks (Fr. Fantastica 1999) Cabin Fever (Fr. Barclay) 1988 Jacklighter (Fr. Barclay) 1990 Signals from the Source (CBGB) 1999 Closer to the Sun (Fr. Fantastica) 2000 Live at the Public Theater (Fantastica US) 2001 An Introduction to War (SourMash USA) 2002 Invisible New York (Easy Action UK) 2008
CERTAIN GENERAL / BAND OF OUTSIDERS Far Away in America (SourMash) 1984 Far Away in America / The Live Side EP (Fr. L’Invitation au Suicide) 1985
(March 2015) |