"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
A few years ago, when I first put this piece up on Newstalgia, a lot of readers expressed happiness over its inclusion, but weren’t too thrilled about the sound of the recording. Truth was, at the time the audio player…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: KMPC – Dick Whittinghill – June 1968 As strange as this may seem, this was the other radio format that competed with Top-40 in the 1960’s. It was more middle-of-the-road than straight…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Meters1976-10-01KingfishLoungeBatonRougeLA 2 You can’t do a week of posts featuring the essence of Funk without adding The Meters into the mix. They were almost singlehandedly responsible for cultivating and exporting New Orleans…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Pres. Wm McKinley Address – Sept. 1901 If you were hoping for on-the-scene coverage of the assassination of President William McKinley with eye-witness reports and team coverage – I’m afraid you’re out…
Click on the link here for Audio player:The Dynamites Featuring Charles Walker – In Session at KDHX – 2008 Continuing our Week of Funk with The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, live in session at KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded on…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – part 1: Orchestre National de France at Torino Part 1 Clink on the link here for Audio Player – part 2:Orchestre National de France at Torino – Part 2 A day…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk – in Session 2007 Past Daily doesn’t play nearly enough Funk on their nightly roundups. So I’m hoping to remedy that with a taste of New Orleans tonight, by…
Click on the link here for Audio player: NPR- Sept. 11, 2001 Coverage Become a Patron! As nothing else really needs to be said – the events speak for themselves, via these reports from Bob Edwards and NPR’s Morning Edition…
Click on the link here for audio player: Jim Noir – Tea If you haven’t been over to Jim Noir’s site and gotten this free download of Tea as a preview of his new album, Jimmy’s Show, which is slated…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Lou Donaldson Quartet -Live Jumping into more recent vintage this week with a concert from the 2012 Inntöne Jazz Festival at Diersbach Austria featuring the legendary Lou Donaldson Quartet. Hitting 86 and…