"Wooden Bag" is 75 Dollar Bill's debut record on the Other Music Recording Company label, originally released in January of 2015.

"Yet now 75 Dollar Bill is headed to the bigs—kind of. Brown and Chen have inked a deal with Other Music Recording Co., and this week, they celebrate their third full-length, Wooden Bag. The album’s seven gyrating, hypnotic dances feature maracas, shakers and homemade-horn–accented guitarscapes; imagine Yo La Tengo but with Indian music rather than the Velvets as prime inspiration."
-- Brad Cohan / Time Out New York

https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/album/wooden-bag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVmKh-0QJv0&list=PLlWDy607ITcPxlNhxMj9e3oe9ezgudXTd&index=4

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Cassette by 75 Dollar Bill, self-released in 2013.

As far as I can tell, our first cassette, originally released in 2013, was assembled from live recordings from the Manhattan Inn, the Greenpoint restaurant bar (part owned by my childhood friend Rolyn Hu) where we had our first show, and practice recordings from Rick and Sue’s old studio in the Pencil Factory Building. Listening to this album 10 years later, it’s apparent how important our first year as a band was in laying the ground work for what has come since (we repeat ourselves!). Our basic concept of playing variations within a pretty limited set of rhythmic and modal materials is already in place on the early, duo versions of “Every Last Coffee or Tea” and “Beni Said, Pt.2”. “Part 1”... - CC August 2023

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https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/merch/early-cassettes-reissue-bundle-3-x-cassette

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Live at Tubby's
by 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, released on Grapefruit in 2020.

At the beginning of March, just as the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic were starting to appear in the Northeast, Rick and I did a short run of shows in Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, and the Hudson Valley. We ended the tour at Tubby’s in Kingston, NY, which turned out not only to be the last show of the tour, but our last show for the foreseeable future. Amherst College had completely shut down its campus within days of our concert there, and New York City’s infection rate started exploding shortly after we returned home. There’s a bittersweetness to these recordings in this context..listening to this recording really brings home all of the reasons that playing music with people that I love, in a room full of people who are vibing off that energy and projecting it back at us, is so important to me..

Che Chen

https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-tubbys

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