Accustomed to being on each side of the record-store counter because the tender age of 15, Peter Holsapple has an intimate data of the kind of vinyl obsessive who impressed “That Sort Of Man.”
“He can title all of the lineups of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band with out breaking a sweat, and he at all times factors out the pocket trumpet on the only model of ‘Penny Lane,’” says Holsapple. “He owns 78s on Solar and Chess, a dwell Thompson Twins Betamax tape and the one-sided single of ‘Sexual Therapeutic’—and he has a ballpark concept of what it’s all price. However generally he does open a collector’s merchandise and performs it on his mid-fi turntable simply to benefit from the emotional expertise. The tunes keep alive that manner.”
When Holsapple wasn’t working on the store again within the day, he was making an attractive noise within the dB’s, one of many nice Southern-bred power-pop bands of the ’80s. Within the many years since, he’s launched treasured few solo albums, which makes The Face Of 68 (out April 18 through Label 51) a little bit of a deal with.
“That Sort Of Man” is a becoming leadoff single, primarily as a result of Holsapple is that sort of man. “I guess you realize one, too,” he says. “It’s noisy up there inside his head as a result of the interior jukebox doesn’t shut off. And it could be you.”
We’re proud to premiere Peter Holsapple’s “That Sort Of Man.”
—Hobart Rowland
