"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Earl “Fatha” Hines – in Concert from Stuttgart, Germany – July 15, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading into more traditional territory this weekend. Legendary Jazz Piano player Earl “Fatha”…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Newman – Pinkpop Festival 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Festival season gets into high gear as Summer goes official this week. Tonight it’s a short-ish set from Blue-eyed Northern Soul practitioner John…
While we’re sifting through the onslaught of current Festival season recordings, I thought I would post something historic as a reminder that seeing a band live was often an entirely different experience to hearing them on record. This Grateful Dead…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Natali Castillo – In Session at Los Conciertos de Radio 3 – June 18, 2014 – RNE Radio 3 Over to Madrid tonight for a radio session by the amazingly talented…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Casey Kasem – KEWB-AM, San Francisco October 2, 1962 Before Scooby-Doo, before Americas Top-40, before The Voice of NBC, Casey Kasem was one of that group of Disc-Jockeys teenage America in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Paolo Nutini – Live at Pinkpop 2014 – June 8, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – Netherlands It’s safe to say Festival season has begun. Pinkpop, probably one of the largest and best-known…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Kennedy Address to UPI Editors Luncheon – June 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what started off as a short address to the Editors and Publishers of UPI,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Kevin Ayers and The Wizards of Twiddly – Live at The Cobra, Solingen, Germany – 2nd set – October 24, 1995 – Band soundboard It’s still difficult to believe Kevin Ayers…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Claude Thornhill (Piano Solo) – That Old Feeling – Columbia Records – 1948 We tend to think the Wall of Shame, that grim testimony to all those overlooked and underrated bands…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sharon Van Etten In Session for Lauren Laverne – BBC 6 Music – June 5, 2014 Something brand new tonight – in fact, hours old. Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, in…