The Bachelors
Transmissions from Paradise
Paradise of Bachelors is a Record Label, Soundsystem, and Archive located in the North Carolina Piedmont and in the subluminal aether. We are dedicated to documenting, curating, and releasing under-recognized musics of the American vernacular, with an emphasis on the South, broadly defined. Paradise of Bachelors is available for licensing, disc-jockeying engagements, music supervision, folklife consultation, research and writing. We cheerily accept recordings, visual media, curatorial proposals, tips, comments, invitations to DJ, artist inquiries, research queries, recipes, and miscellaneous c...
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Apr 24, 2026
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James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: Fears of This Nature 12.04.2024 3:05
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: Explanation Point 12.04.2024 3:55
Audio is mastered. Artwork is not final. PLEASE KEEP PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pi...
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: Well, Well, Cornelius 12.04.2024 3:04
Audio is mastered. Artwork is not final. PLEASE KEEP PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pi...
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: All Gist Could Be Yours 12.04.2024 5:28
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: Nicest Distinction 12.04.2024 5:53
Audio is mastered. Artwork is not final. PLEASE KEEP PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pi...
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: Death Wishes to Kill 10.04.2024 3:21
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...
Terry Allen: Gonna California 14.03.2024 3:04
Terry Allen Gonna California PoB-076 45rpm 7" vinyl / digital March 15, 2024 In conjunction with the publication, by Hachette Books, of Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, an authorized biography by Brendan Greaves of Paradise of Bachelors, Gonna California imagines an alternate reality where Allen’s long-lost first studio recordings, captured with a full band in LA in 1968, saw a...
Terry Allen: Color Book 14.03.2024 2:00
Terry Allen Gonna California PoB-076 45rpm 7" vinyl / digital March 15, 2024 In conjunction with the publication, by Hachette Books, of Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, an authorized biography by Brendan Greaves of Paradise of Bachelors, Gonna California imagines an alternate reality where Allen’s long-lost first studio recordings, captured with a full band in LA in 1968, saw a...
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg: Buffalo Stance 19.02.2024 5:19
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg All Gist PoB-075 LP/CD/digital April 12, 2024 The duo’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings pushes their sinuous compositions into labyrinthine new shapes, interlocking and interlocutory, supported by a cast of stellar collaborators. Interwoven among the dazzling original pieces is a fascinating array of covers, ranging from traditional Breton dance tu...
Itasca: Milk 24.01.2024 4:48
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Dancing Woman 24.01.2024 3:20
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Easy Spirit 24.01.2024 9:29
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: El Dorado 24.01.2024 3:34
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Molière's Reprise 24.01.2024 4:00
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Olympia 24.01.2024 1:24
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Under Gates of Cobalt Blue 24.01.2024 4:15
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Interlude 24.01.2024 1:01
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Itasca: Imitation of War 22.01.2024 4:14
Itasca Imitation of War PoB-073 LP/CD/digital February 9, 2024 On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, l...
Setting: Zoetropics 29.09.2023 7:45
Setting Shone a Rainbow Light On PoB-072 LP/CD/digital September 29, 2023 The debut recording by Setting, a trio comprising Nathan Bowles (solo, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys and percussion; Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) on harmoniums, synthesizers and piano zither; and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion and metalloph...
Setting: A Sun Harp 28.09.2023 10:16
Setting Shone a Rainbow Light On PoB-072 LP/CD/digital September 29, 2023 The debut recording by Setting, a trio comprising Nathan Bowles (solo, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys and percussion; Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) on harmoniums, synthesizers and piano zither; and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion and metalloph...
Setting: Fog Glossaries 28.09.2023 8:46
Setting Shone a Rainbow Light On PoB-072 LP/CD/digital September 29, 2023 The debut recording by Setting, a trio comprising Nathan Bowles (solo, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys and percussion; Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) on harmoniums, synthesizers and piano zither; and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion and metalloph...
Setting: We Center 27.09.2023 13:27
Setting Shone a Rainbow Light On PoB-072 LP/CD/digital September 29, 2023 The debut recording by Setting, a trio comprising Nathan Bowles (solo, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys and percussion; Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) on harmoniums, synthesizers and piano zither; and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion and metalloph...
Mike Cooper: Critical Incidents 21.06.2023 6:41
Mike Cooper Life and Death in Paradise 1974 PoB-070 LP+CD/2xCD/digital July 14, 2023 Mike Cooper wrote his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming glam-rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain, an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether. A chance encounter and a last-ditch record deal convinced him to make one l...
Mike Cooper: Peach Trees 10.05.2023 7:41
Mike Cooper Milan Live Acoustic 2018 PoB-071 CD (packaged with Life and Death in Paradise) / Digital July 14, 2023 Mike Cooper wrote his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming glam-rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain, an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether. A chance encounter and a last-ditch record de...
Mike Cooper: O.M.M. Coda 10.05.2023 7:31
Mike Cooper Life and Death in Paradise 1974 PoB-070 LP+CD/2xCD/digital July 14, 2023 Mike Cooper wrote his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming glam-rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain, an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether. A chance encounter and a last-ditch record deal convinced him to make one l...
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