Artist:  Phil  Alvin with Sun Ra & the Arkestra

Title:  Un"Sung Stories"

Date:  1986

Label:  Slash Recordings   25481-1

Artwork & Direction Thereof:  GeargAnne Deen

Bottle Caps By:  Suzanne Hughes

Photographs By:  Dennis Keeley  

Notes:  Phil's first foray into solo recording shows that he can stand alone from the Blasters and still carry the tunes. A collection of gospel, jazz and blues tunes from an old satchel on the back stoop and enough friends around to fill in the sound. Sun Ra swings his group through the changes and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band takes a different route, but Phil manages to keep up with both. The folk art elements of the cover captures the mood of the music and fits in with the handmade images of the brothers Alvin that we've come to hold in our minds.

Line Up: 

Phil Alvin: vocals and guitar
Sun Ra & the Arkestra
The Dirty dozen Brass Band

Track Listing

Side 1

Someone Stole Gabriiel's Horn
Next Week Sometime
The Ballad of Smokey Joe
Death in the Morning
The Old Man of the Mountain

Side 2

Daddy Rollin' Stone
Titanic Blues
Brother Can you Spare a Dime
Collins Cave
Gangster's Blues