Author: Justin Carter

I’ve Got The Blues

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As I’ve said a few times on the blog here, thanks to a trip I took down south in October, I’ve really been getting into the blues recently. At the behest of Mister Harkin, I made this little survey of some new records in my collection. The tracklisting is below, and you can download the mix here. I hope you enjoy.

01. Kid Bailey, “Rowdy Blues” [Monk Records]
02. Blind Willie Johnson, “Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground” [Mississippi Records]
03. Lightnin’ Hopkins, “75 Highway” [Tradition Records]
04. Robert Pete Williams, “Levee Camp Blues” [Doxy Music]
05. Mance Lipscomb, “Angel Child” [Arhoolie]
06. Eddie Lee Jones and Family, “Baby, Please Don’t Go” [Mississippi Records]
07. Mississippi John Hurt, “Avalon Blues” [Heritage Records]
08. Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods, “My Babe” [Rounder Records]
09. John Brim, “Rattlesnake” [Chess Records]
10. Eddie Boyd, “Third Degree” [Chess Records]

Photo of Mississippi John Hurt by Bernard Gotfryd

Looking Back on 2011: Justin Carter

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The year has ended, and my existence as a DJ requires me to supply my Top Ten list. This is it in no particular order.

The Blues – I took a trip through the south this year. In Mississippi, I stopped in Clarksdale (where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, an occasion now marked by a sad, easy-to-miss sculpture and a Church’s Chicken), and I joined the generation of middle-aged white men before me in getting into the blues.

Lucky for me, that generation has started to sell their records, and I came upon a store where someone had just dumped their entire collection, allowing me to grow my fairly paltry stock of blues records back at home into something more substantial. I’ve particularly fallen in love with Son House, whose “Grinnin’ In Your Face” I posted on the blog in October.


Gospel and Diva House – The first parties that I ever went to in New York were Body and Soul and Shelter. I also grew up in church mesmerized by a gospel singer named Eunice Mayfield. That means, of course, that I am into gospel and diva house, which I have been more than pleased to see in resurgence over the past year, starting with Omar S’s set with us back in January. It was pretty much all he played.

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Mark E Joins Us at 12-turn-13

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After a superb night with DJ Rolando, Justin and Eamon at House of Yes, the Mister is back at the beloved party place 12-turn-13, happy to host another stellar guest: Mark E.

Producer of all things long, slow and burning, Mark Evetts began developing his style with tasteful, heady disco edits. He then went on to start his own label, MERC, defining his sound through a series of self-releases. The most recent example of his excellence is Stone Breaker, his debut LP released this year on Spectral Sound. Required listening.

Accompanying Justin, Eamon and Mark will of course be the indominable vibe at 12-turn-13, with an all-inclusive dancefloor and sprawling rooftop. It’s the best kept secret on Classon Avenue. Catch the tide at 10 for an hour of beer on the house, and RSVP to mister@mistersaturdaynight.com for $15 admission before midnight.

And like Bill Cosby says, don’t boogie on my face. Thanks.

Mister Saturday Night
with residents Justin Carter & Eamon Harkin
and very special guest Mark E

at 12-turn-13 / 172 Classon Ave between Park and Myrtle, Brooklyn / Saturday, December 10th / 10p-6a / $15 before midnight with RSVP to mister@mistersaturdaynight.com / $20 otherwise / map to venue/ 21+* 

*Although we absolutely love to play host to our underage friends, the operators of the space make the rules. When we can, we do it all-ages, but for 12-turn-13, we’ve gotta keep it twenty-one and over.

Thankful and Thoughtful

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I got to be. Happy Thanksgiving from the Mister.

Big Time Sensuality

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Rob Cortes, a gent who came down to a few Mister Sundays over the summer, passed me a CD with a few songs on it after a party. It was chock full of good stuff, but one track in particular really blew my mind. It was a version of Björk performing Big Time Sensuality accompanied only by organ and tabla. I’ve been trying to find the source ever since, and today I found it… That’s Talvin Singh on the tablas and Guy Sigsworth on the organ, by the way. Can someone please press this to vinyl?