Junior Idol

In the three years that have passed since the release of Ghostly's Idol Tryouts compilation, Ghostly and its brother label Spectral Sound have brached out beyond their roots in Ann Arbor under the guidance of Sam Valenti IV, who has built a shamelessly diverse roster of artists from around the globe. Idol Tryouts Two is an expansive document of this maturation, offering a plentitude of exclusive material separated into two discs distinguished as Avant-Pop and SMM.
Avant-Pop denotes a distinct brand of off-center pop treasures - it follows no formula, but you know it when you hear it. On this disc, exclusive tracks from Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys, Mobius Band, and the rest of the Ghostly roster document the crossroads where the avant-garde and the popular converge…

Emery Williams Jr. is a living link to the great Chicago blues piano players of the 1940s and 1950s. Born on October 26, 1931, in Haynes, AR, Williams was given the name Detroit Junior when be began recording on his own in the 1960s.
On this CD Junior harkens back to earlier roots, covering some of the major musical forces who inspired him as they blew through Cleveland and Detroit when he was just getting started on piano: Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Willie Mabon and his number one idol, Amos Milburn. Check out his locomotive reading of Milburn’s trademark Chicken Shack, liberally seasoned by his own wit and phrasing. No less delectable are his own latest originals, such as the treat your woman right treatise Take Out The Time…