Ross Johnson with Cloudland Canyon - I'm Getting Down To It 7" [Spacecase Records]

Ross Johnson (Panther Burns, Alex Chilton, Jeff Evans) teams up with Cloudland Canyon (Kip Uhlhorn) and fellow Memphians on his latest Spacecase single. “Women, Money, Children” covers The Baron’s usual subject matter (see song title) with some stream-of-consciousness forays into East German/Cold War history (Ross drove through the former GDR to West Berlin in his Panther Burns days; I believe this is the first English-language reference to the GDR in a song since The Fall’s “Athlete Cured” back in 1988.) “I Know Why They Leave” is Ross and Kip on a ZE/Brain Records-influenced trip. The single’s top-notch cover design comes courtesy of Natalie Hoffmann (Nots, Optic Sink). Limited to 300 copies.