Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Miss Fontella Bass “Listen -Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure - Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing - MP3″ Greetings all. I hope the dawning of a new week finds you well, at least well enough for some groovy soul music. Today’s selection is an example of an absolutely fantastic record that I was utterly and completely ignorant of for year, until I [...]
Hugo Zoom (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
All the little household gods Have started crying, but say Good-bye now, and put to sea. -- W.H. Auden It was the heyday of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco with bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Youngbloods, the Moody Blues, A Beautiful Day, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, just to name a few making a great impression on me, actually much more than
Waxidermy (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
What an incredible record…fans of The Youngbloods and Poco should check this out. I was looking for good christian records at a St. Vincent De Paul, found this and took a fifty cent chance. It’s not overty christian at all but the label is Cartay, with a halo coming from the “t”. He writes most [...]
RevGalBlogPals (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Yesterday the Church celebrated the Day of Pentecost and for this year's festivities I have a roundup of music that expresses the Spirit of resurrection, renewal, restoration and reconciliation; I'm especially excited to hear about your particular Pentecostal Favorites in the comments! It has been called "the apotheosis of the dance!"-- Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 ; this Leonard Bernstein recording includes...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
/CMA/ -- By Deborah Evans PriceCharlie Daniels has earned numerous accolades, including a trophy case full of CMA, Grammy and Dove Awards. But one honor eluded the veteran singer, songwriter, musician and entertainer until Jan. 19, when Daniels became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. ...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Hmm. Seems these guys have a new album out. No video yet, but from the review I read in yesterday's Times , the new single sounds a lot like their older stuff. For instance: Food for thought: 40 years ago, there were no songs this angry and explicitly political coming from anybody important in pop music, with the possible exception of Country Joe and the Fish . Seriously, everybody thinks protest songs...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
When I was in college I worked part time at the Cafe Au Go-Go. I never got paid– nor did much real work– but I was booking lots of the bands that played there at my college on Long Island, sharing the expense of bringing them from England or California to New York. And I [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
African Diamonds The twenty-six rare and exciting singles and LP tracks on Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues (1970-6) (Soundway) were made during a brief window of party and prosperity for that nation — between the Biafran War, which ended in 1970 at a cost of an estimated 1 million lives, and a military [...]
Time Has Told Me (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Mimi Fariña " Solo " 1986 The Richard & Mimi Fariña Fan Site : Solo was Mimi's first solo album, and, aside from a few guest appearances on albums by Joan and various friends, it was her only major release since Take Heart in 1971. Mimi had compiled much of this material in the early seventies, after her split with Tom Jans in 1972. Three of the songs on had been recorded previously by Mimi. "Best...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
This is from Mike Hurley's first album called First Songs which was released in 1965 by Folkways and is still available on Smithsonian Folkways. http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=575 After the release of this album, he remained inactive in his solo career, occasionally lending songs to the Holy Modal Rounders and the Youngbloods, but in the early 1970s he wrote two more albums,...
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 03/11/2007
John Batdorf have survived many careers in one lifetime. Starting with the 70's as a recording artist with Batdorf and Rodney and Silver. He made records and toured this country and Canada for most of the 70s. The band headlined...
bag of songs (Free subscription) | 17/10/2007
Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells the true...
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 01/10/2007
you can find Alexander "Skip" Spence Bob Dylan Dando Shaft Dino Valente Dr. John Fred Neil Gary Higgins Jerry Garcia John Fahey Moby Grape Neil Young Nico Quicksilver Messenger Service Six Organs Of Admittance The Youngbloods Tim Hardin Timothy Leary and more.. here http://www.gurugalore.com/media/ and my request Viking Moses/Spencer Kingman split album i'm serching this for long time.. please, thanks...
