"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Bob Dylan – live on Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound Program – Feb. 1963 – WNCN-FM, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something rare but no doubt something fans, purists and completists have. An excerpt of a session…
After devoting too many posts the past year on tributes for musicians who have passed away, it’s an absolute pleasure to post something of a celebration tonight. Hard to imagine, but Bob Dylan turns 80 today, May 24th. Not to…
Even though at the time Cat Stevens was probably one of the more heavily played and universally well-known artists, even to the point of overkill in the early 70s, his work has stood up remarkably well over the years. So…
Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound – Live From The Renaissance Club – KRHM-FM -Dec. 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Always a reminder floating around of just how active L.A.’s club scene was in the 1950s. One example comes by…
Passenger, live at T In The Park 2014 to end the week. Initially a band, the band dissolved in 2009 and frontman Michael Rosenberg decided to adopt the name Passenger for himself – and so Passenger the band became Passenger…
The Blues Project – Live at The Matrix – September 1966 – WOR-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Blues Project in concert tonight – live at The Matrix in San Francisco and broadcast by WOR-FM in New York.…
A club date from Joni Mitchell tonight – recorded at Club 47 in Cambridge Mass. from January 1968. Folk singer Tom Rush had met Mitchell in Toronto and was impressed with her songwriting ability. He took “Urge for Going” to…
Al Stewart – in concert at the 1989 Cambridge Folk Festival – July 30, 1989 – BBC Radio 1 – Al Stewart in concert tonight. One of the key players in the Folk Music revival of the 1960s, Stewart has…
BBC 6 Music Festival – Day 3 – February 14, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – A snippet from Day 3 of the 2016 BBC Music Festival in Bristol, broadcast live on February 14, 2016. It occurred to me that…
WABC-FM – Almanac Of Folk Music – October 30, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It keeps us going, especially now: Become a Patron! Contrary to what many people might imagine, Pop Music didn’t suddenly go from Doo-Wop to…