merinews (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Just released! Featuring 16 songs taught and performed in 40 video segments with notation, text comments, interactive power tab, looping, frame advance, zoom, and other useful controls. Works on PC or Mac also includes access to Truefire TV
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
I promised a commenter some more Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell – so here's the man giving out 'Blue Day Blues.' He really is one of the missing links between twenties country blues and later urban styles – introducing more linearity via the single-string breaks, for example. No mean singer either... From his 1967 album 'Blackjack,' this is Donald Byrd heading up a septet on 'Pentatonic.' Sonny Red solos...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Yusef Lateef recorded 'The Centaur and the Phoenix' in 1961. This is 'Every day (I fall in love),' a slow, gorgeous reading, bursting with sonorities and colour. Lateef features his flute here, against a plangent backdrop of three brass and two reeds (the unusual combo of baritone sax and bassoon). The theme unfolds in thick dense streams, as if conjuring the movement from deep sleep to slow awakening...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Despite the porkie in the title – “Your Host Bob Dylan” actually makes no audible appearance on this 2CD compilation of tracks played on his radio show – this is still a superb anthology of folk, blues, rock’n'roll and country, ranging from the 1930s blues of Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell to The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Despite the porkie in the title – “Your Host Bob Dylan” actually makes no audible appearance on this 2CD compilation of tracks played on his radio show – this is still a superb anthology of folk, blues, rock’n'roll and country, ranging from the 1930s blues of Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell to The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Despite the porkie in the title – “Your Host Bob Dylan” actually makes no audible appearance on this 2CD compilation of tracks played on his radio show – this is still a superb anthology of folk, blues, rock’n'roll and country, ranging from the 1930s blues of Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell to The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”.
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 19/01/2008
There are rumors, notably reported on this Spanish website, that Bob Dylan is currently recording a new album with producer Rick Rubin. There are actually people who have fun making up these kinds of things, so I have no idea if it's true or not. On one level it wouldn't surprise me that [...]
Visions of Dylan (Free subscription) | 15/01/2008
Theme Time Hour will soon be available on CD! Ace Records are releasing the authorised CD from the “Theme Time Radio Hour” in March this year. Produced by Eddie Gorodetsky and Ace’s own Roger Armstrong the 2 CD set is based around 828 tracks played by Bob Dylan in the 50 episodes of the first series. With [...]
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 15/12/2007
So – back in God's Little Acre, preparing for Christmas... presenting some oddities... I found this John Surman track on a Wire magazine sampler (no 13 – I have them all somewhere - which could be interesting, if I ever have the patience to dig them out). This is 'Way back when part 4,' recorded in 1969. Surman has a lighter style on soprano than the heavyweight model of the time – John Coltrane -...
Music City Syndicate (Free subscription) | 24/11/2007
Art of Field Recording Volume 1: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum Foundation : Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music for a new generation, University of Georgia art professor Art Rosenbaum's 110-track field-work collection yields many old-time treasures, some from musicians who cut their first sides during the 1920s and others recorded as recently as this...
