R. Stevie Moore / Jason Falkner
“I Am the Best For You”
scum stats: one-sided lathe-cut single limited to 60 hand-numbered copies, just came out today, they gonna be gone soon, hop to it!
Sadder Day Records does it again with the limited edition lathe cut!
My intro to R. Stevie is pretty funny.
At the time, 2005 or 2006, I was corresponding pretty consistently with Kelley Stoltz. He had just put out his “Below the Branches” album on Sub Pop and in some comment section in a video or whatever, someone said “eh, it’s nothing R. Stevie Moore wasn’t doing twenty five years ago.”
Having never heard of Moore, Kelley immediately searched out his songs and sure enough, Stoltz was convinced…there wasn’t much difference from what RSM was doing in the 70’s to what Stoltz was doing at the time.
(For the best example of this, check out the RSM track “Cool Daddio” recorded twenty years before Stoltz released his first album.)
Stoltz asked me if I’d ever heard of him but I hadn’t. We then both bought as much as we could directly from RSM via his website. I remember asking around Detroit if anyone had ever heard of the guy. I’m talking a dozen or so grizzled, hardcore record collectors.
Only ONE had ever heard of him, and all they could recall was his FIRST album.
Fact of the matter is that RSM has been self-recording and self-releasing for longer than most of us have been alive. Long before home recording and/or DIY was de rigeur, RSM was truly living the ethos.
For that, he has my eternal respect. He deserves to have yours too.
The song included here is a collab with Beck & Brendan Benson co-conspirator Jason Falkner. Originally released in 2015, this sucker cooks. It’s worth your time. It is but a speck of the thousands of songs across hundreds of albums that RSM has birthed into the world over the past 50 years. The least you can do is buy a copy, you cheap penny-pinching bastard!
That being said...I’m giving away a copy of this $10 valued single for the comment left here that tells the best story of doing it yourself. Ideally I don’t want to hear about music. Tell me about fixing up your house, refurbishing an old Caddy, the time you extracted your own wisdom teeth. Make it good. Ideally make it truthful. But most of all….make the comment before October 14th, as that is the arbitrary day I am closing submissions.
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