S/D: Joe Morris

Morris's "funk" album is called Sweat Shop. It sounds like Andy Gill gone jazz to my ears, and it's one of my favorite of his albums. Morris is a terrific guy, amazing player - I recommend A Cloud Of Black Birds, Soul Search, Deep Telling (w/Ken Vandermark, Ken Kessler, Hamid Drake), Live At The Old Office (w/the same band from ACOBB) and Eloping With The Sun is really cool, too. Recently he's been recording as an upright bassist quite frequently, but his bass playing isn't nearly as unique or interesting as his guitar stuff, so don't pick any of those discs up expecting to be blown away by him, though some of the other folks on there are really good. There's one with Rob Brown, under the name Stone House, that's well worth hearing.

if you like morris and wish he would do some more caveman luddite noise rock guitar then get your hands on every recording by harry pussy and bill orcutt's solo cd on audible hiss. you should enjoy them

here i make desperate plea for burn of "sweatshop". can be foiund nowhere. oh the sadness. it is worse than when my dancing bear was kidnapped by the circus