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Unholier Than Thou 7/7/77 [Don Giovanni, 2024]
Live at the Bottom Line decades ago, a surprise treasure: two discs comprising 31 songs, 25 of them non-Have Moicy! Plentiful Peter Stampfel, zero Steve Weber, ample Charlie Messing, other regulars, many lesser guests and minor legends, plus a voluble multi-authored 20-page booklet replete with many contributors' tales of reliably offhand musical triumphs and the occasional fucked-up life. Then pushing 40, Stampfel's voice retains the cartoon clarity of the 1964-65 recordings of the actual Holy Modal Rounders' still findable 1 & 2 best-of. But any Have Moicy! fan who lets this opportunity pass him, her, or them by is missing the chance to hear such standouts not in my recall memory as "Low Down Dog," "Kansas City Kitty," "Dance a Little Longer," "Places Where You Never See the Snow," and the William Tell Overture. Plus, never forget this one: "Fucking Sailors in Chinatown." A