From our friends at Flannelgraph Records, who have been releasing the benefit album The Holidays Don't Have to be so Rotten for the past four years. The 4th volume is out now -- and so is this:

It is our honor to be releasing a limited edition of 7" records featuring the song that Loren Connors contributed to last year's instrumental holiday benefit compilation.

• ** original cover artwork by Loren himself
• ** limited to 500 hand-numbered copies
• ** B-side features the raw transfer of "Christmas Day," original recorded on VHS cassette tape
• ** all profits will again go to charity, this year's being Amethyst House, an addiction recovery center in Bloomington, Indiana
•  ** Order at Flannelgraph Records

Little Howlin' Wolf is back in the Midwest for a spell. He joined up with Tyler Damon in Bloomington for a duo set at The Bishop... And yes, we will be reissuing the Wolf's two LPs -- Cool Truth and The Guardian -- in 2014.

A father to us all. Thanks for being you, Lou. 

A fine duo, if there ever was one: Loren Connors and Tom Carter at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, Oct. 20, 2013. Photo lifted from thepalaceat4am.