"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Live In London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – A familiar name from the British Invasion days of the mid-60s, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band was a distinct about-face from Pop and…
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…
– Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Live at My Fathers Place – November 18, 1978 – WLIR-FM – There was a time you couldn’t mention Frank Zappa without mentioning Captain Beefheart somewhere in the same sentence. After a…
Never assume everything that’s ever been discovered, played, listened to or released by an artist has been done already. There are always things lurking around in warehouses, basements, libraries, private collections, garage sales. It’s all out there. Sometimes it’s overlooked…
– Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM – Ending out the weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York…
– Strawbs In Concert from London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – Strawbs were a band who went though a number of musical changes during their initial tenure from 1964-1980. Initially a bluegrass/folk-rock ensemble, boasting the…
I thought I would take a mellow turn tonight and run a session the inimitable Keb’ Mo’ did for the BBC back in October of 2011. Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb’ Mo’, is an American…
Whiteout-Time And Again – In session for John Peel – October 11, 1994 – BBC Radio 1. Earlier this year I ran a track by the 90’s Brit-Pop band Whiteout with promises to run some of their session recordings at…
Robert Plant -Laughin, Cryin, Laughin – 1967 – CBS Records UK – Sometimes an artist going the solo route just can’t seem to get arrested until they become part of a group. In the case of Robert Plant, he recorded…
– Vanessa Paradis in session May 15 2013 – Radio France – Le Mouv – One of the things I find frustrating about aspects of our culture here in the U.S. is that propensity to pigeon-hole an artist into one…