Year: 2021

– The Blank Tapes – Hallelujah – Sweet On Top Christmas Sampler – From the album Highway 9 – 2014 Ending up the week of homegrown, local and festive, my friend Kristina Benson who runs Sweet On Top handed me this sampler of songs by local L.A. artists who just

KYA-San Francisco – Pete McNeal – December 23, 1969 – You used to really like Christmas. But the past few years it’s been the aluminum tree, the beat-up Christmas album your parents got at Sears and a Turkey so dry you could use it for firewood. Kind of half-hearted. The

– Mustangs Of The West – 2000 Miles – Blue Elan Records – Keeping the holiday spirit roaring along in the homegrown, local and festive vein, Mustangs Of The West with their new single, a cover of The Pretenders 1983 hit 2000 Miles just in time for Christmas. Three years

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Günther Wand, Conductor – Ruggiero Ricci – NDR Symphony – Norther German Radio – May 11, 1987 – Legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci with the North German Radio Symphony led by the equally legendary Günther Wand in a program of music by Ligeti, Saint-Saëns and Schumann – recorded in Hamburg on