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I spent the decade of the 1990s in Charleston, South Carolina and during that time I was proud of the Carrboro, North Carolina independent label Mammoth Records.

We Carolinian's stick together.

Unfortunately, the label was sold to the Walt Disney Company in 1998 for 25 million dollars and was then morphed into Hollywood Records in 2003. Mammoth's founder Jay Faires became a rich man after selling the company he built, and good for him, but Juliana Hatfield at Disney? There's just something so very wrong about that.

For this playlist I chose to look back to Mammoth's golden age, a period of time between 1988 and 1997 when the label released a ton of great records. Some of these artists have gone on to bigger and better things while others still fly under the radar.

Mammoth Records Sampler 

   1. Cesspool - Blake Babies   

   2. Bum For Egypt - Dash Rip Rock   

   3. Smoking Her Wings - The Bats   

   4. 23 - Antenna   

   5. Richest Junkie Still Alive - Machines of Loving Grace   

   6. My Sister - Juliana Hatfield   

   7. Waint - Vanilla Trainwreck   

   8. Good Fortune - Joe Henry   

   9. Feel Like A Drugstore - Chainsaw Kittens   

   10. I'll Wait - Dillon Fence   

   11. Survivors - Eat Static   

   12. Last Train to Lhasa - Banco de Gaia   

   13. Visitor - Children of the Bong   

   14. Where Bridges Never Burn - Jason & The Scorchers   

   15. Cumbersome - Seven Mary Three   

   16. The Bit - Melvins   

   17. Throwin' Rocks At The Moon - The Backsliders   

   18. Wonderful Love - Creeper Lagoon   

   19. Dagger - The Hope Blister   

   20. Hell On Wheels - Fu Manchu 

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