"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blecaute (Blackout) – Que Samba Bom – 1949 Something out-of-the-ordinary, but not so unusual if you spend any time over here. Tonight it’s a single by the legendary Brazilian singer/Samba practitioner…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – London Grammar – Live at We Love Green Festival 2014 – Paris – May 29, 2014 – RFI Le Mouv` Band-To-Watch for 2014, London Grammar have been hitting the road in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC/NBC Blue Network – Address by Anthony Eden regarding Dunkirk – June 2, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what began on the 31st of May and ended on June…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Slim Gaillard – Laguna – Bee-Bee Records 101 – 1945 Had Slim Gaillard never appeared, the world would have been an awful place. Truly and totally unique, with a language of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Howard Hanson and The Eastman School Orchestra – Pioneers Of Music – May 27, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More Americana, by way of The Eastman School of Music, and…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Art Farmer-Benny Golson – live at Newport 1960 – June 30, 1960 – Voice of America Reposting a concert from several years ago (via my long-ago now-defunct site) from the 1960…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Drive-By Truckers – Live At Primavera Sound 2014 – Barcelona -May 29, 2014 – RNE More American acts at Primavera Sound this year. Adding a dose of Southern-fried Alternative to the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tiananmen Square – Timeline – May-June 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-five years ago, all eyes were on Beijing and the unfolding events that, at first seemed wildly optimistic and…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Brother Jack McDuff – Ain’t It – 1968 – Chess Records Easing into something a little more contemporary (if the 60s are contemporary . . .) with the legendary Brother Jack…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Real Estate – live At Primavera Sound,Barcelona – May 29, 2014 – RNE Radio 3 For those of you keeping an eye out for Festival Season this year, it’s safe to…