Lost Gems from Old Friends: The Unreleased Simon & Garfunkel
Demos, outtakes, and live recordings from 1964-1969.
View ArticleDizzy Gillespie and Johnny Griffin in Paris, 13 April 1973
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Johnny Griffin, tenor sax; Kenny Drew, piano; Niels Pederson, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums; Humberto Canto, congas.
View ArticleHypnotized
Masterful music from the margins that compels you to just sit back and listen.
View ArticleSamba Your Stress Away!
Whenever the stress-o-meter hits critical, haul out this classic 10" LP from 1956 and bust-a-move!
View ArticleMy Mercurial Mother
Featuring the finest female vocalists of the 1950s: Monica Zetterlund, Blossom Dearie, Rita Reys, Thelma Grayson, Ernestine Anderson, and more.
View ArticleThe Dames of Harlem
Vocalists of the 20s and 30s, including Mamie Smith, Gertrude Saunders, Edith Wilson, Monette Moore, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Victoria Spivey, Gladys Bentley, Alberta Hunter, Clara Smith, Mattie...
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2012 – part 1
Songs about death and renewal from musicians who died in 2012.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2012 – part 2
Hosted by Don Cornelius, w/Larry Hagman, Don Klugman, Dick Clark, Ernest Borgnine, Phyllis Diller, Sherman Hemsley, and Andy Griffith.
View ArticleA Berry Rainy Day
30-minutes of cool groovin' instrumentals from Chuck Berry's 1950s Chess archives. Goes well with beer and an old fashioned diner meal. Queue up your selections on the jukebox and sit near the window...
View ArticleFrank Garlock Remix Project
Firebrand fearizoid Frank Garlock spins tales on the evils of rock and roll to a back-drop of anti-matter.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2008
w/Neal Hefti, Harvey Korman, Napoleon Brown, Paul Newman, Odetta Holmes, Richard Wright, Eldon Rathburn, Charlton Heston, Jimmy McGriff.
View ArticleThe Music Never Stopped
A memorial for the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.
View ArticleBailout Blues for the Broke and Busted – part 1
The history of money, the banking system bailout, and the ongoing financial crisis. With music by Pink Floyd, Tony Bennett, The Beatles, The Kinks, Merle Travis, Homegas, Odetta & Dr. John, Danny...
View ArticleCatherine Lara: Ad Libitum / Morituri / Le soleil borgne
Taken from her 1972 debut LP's for Columbia/CBS.
View ArticleJoan Baez – Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
Songs and poems selected and edited by Joan Baez. Original music composed and conducted by Peter Schickele.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2009 – part 1
w/Frank McCourt, Claude Jeter, Steve Ferguson, Eddie Bo, Joe Cuba, Willy "Mink" DeVille, Jim Carroll, Billy Lee Riley, Sky Saxon.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2009 – part 2
w/Norton Buffalo, Koko Taylor, Willie King, Jack Rose, Allen Shelton, Mike Seeger, John Martyn.
View ArticleBlack Noise: The Electric Dharma of FM
An instrumental compilation from Black Noise [1977], Head Room [1978], Surveilance [1979], and Foreign Exchange [1980].
View ArticleSymfloydia: Orchestrations from the Underground
Weaving through Pink Floyd's experimental instrumentals [1968-1972].
View ArticleJimi Hendrix: Early Instrumentals
From his 1965 studio sessions w/Curtis Knight and The Squires.
View ArticleMonday Evening Train
w/Last Train Home, Flexigrass, Matt Munisteri, Toshi Reagon, Corey Harris, Gillian Welch, Cat Power, Valorie Miller, Graham Wilkinson.
View ArticleHome For Christmas
A compilation of folk, gospel, and bluegrass from the 1982 Book Of The Month Club 3-LP boxset.
View ArticleWorking Christmas Blues 2011
w/Del McCoury, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Bobby Charles, Tom Waits, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Marty Robbins, and more.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2011 – part 1
w/Eugene McDaniels, Alex Kirst, Clarence Clemons, Bert Jansch, Charlie Louvin, Peter Narvaez, Terry Clements, Gil Scott-Heron, Benny Spellman, Rob Grill, Matthew Calicoat, Marvin Sease.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2011 – part 2
w/Sultan Khan, Conrad Schnitzler, Milton Babbitt, Wild Man Fischer, and Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2011 – part 3
w/Phoebe Snow, Hubert Sumlin, Mojo Buford, Honeyboy Edwards, Bob Brunning, Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Big Jack Johnson.
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead 2011 – part 4
w/Walter Norris, George Shearing, Bob Brookmeyer, Eddie Marshall, Pete Rugolo, Sam Rivers, Jack Kevorkian, Snooky Young.
View ArticleBring Out Your Barry
A brief memorial compiled from John Barry's early film soundtracks.
View ArticleThe Faceless Jimmie Gordon
5 great songs from one of St. Louis' finest, yet most obscure blues artists.
View ArticleAusterity Rules The Bailout Blues – part 1
America is not broke! — Austerity is not a fiscal response to "out of control social spending", but a strategy to re-capitalize the banks. So the bankers got their bailouts, bonuses and “golden...
View ArticleAusterity Rules The Bailout Blues – part 2
The Shifting Burden: Tax cuts for the rulers, job cuts for workers — Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper announced the end of 19,000 government jobs as corporate taxation hit an all-time low....
View ArticleAusterity Rules The Bailout Blues – part 3
Austerity is a Lie! — Politicians will never use "fiscal policy" to pay down government debt, because the banking system is depends on it. A major component of the government of Canada's "Debt...
View ArticleAusterity Rules The Bailout Blues – part 4
Dismantling Progress - How ideological assholes are using the financial crisis to strip away the social progress of the 20th century. With music by Traffic, Badfinger, James Brown, Blood, Sweat &...
View ArticleBig Lonely
Inspired by his five-month trip across Canada in 1969, Norman Symonds' "Big Lonely" - an ode to the Canadian hobo - was the result of a "creative watershed". This 1975 recording was performed by the...
View ArticleBailout Blues for the Broke and Busted – part 2
Money is an article of faith and the basis of a religion so corrupt that our "faith is fraying", as Margaret Atwood put it. "Has it taken on the attributes of a god – unpredictable, all-powerful,...
View ArticleThe Cost of Freedom
A tribute to the book, "Cost of Freedom: An American Anthology of Activism".
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