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Stella Donnelly -Live At Fuji Festival 2019 – Recorded July 27, 2019 – NHK-FM New faces by way of Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly, whose debut album came out in March of this year and has been getting widely positive reactions all over the world. Recorded literally hours ago, Donnelly and...
LP – in concert at Outside Lands Festival 2018 – recorded by SRF Radio 3 – LP in concert this weekend. An artist I am clearly wondering why I haven’t heard before, but one which is a profound switch to what’s been going on musically in the U.S. lo, these...
Randy Newman in Concert – Moore Theatre, Seattle – November 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Randy Newman in concert tonight. Recorded at The Moore Theatre in Seattle in November 1974. Randy Newman has been referred to more than once as a National Treasure – and if the staggering...
Al Stewart – in session for John Peel – May 29, 1968 – Recorded May 8, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Al Stewart in session for John Peel from 1968 tonight. This was his first of what would be some seven sessions the singer-songwriter would record for Peel. And...
Charlotte Gainsbourg – in concert – BBC 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 31, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Charlotte Gainsbourg on closing night of the BBC 6 Music Festival last weekend. The perfect capper to an extraordinary three day festival that will be hard, if not impossible, to...
Tim Hardin with The Spike Heatley Quinet – in Session for John Peel – July 15, 1968 – broadcast July 28, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Tim Hardin in session for John Peel, backed by The Spike Heatly Quintet, recorded for BBC Radio 1 on July 15, 1968 and...
Trashcan Sinatras – Live At The Casbah, San Diego – May 14, 2005 – Trashcan Sinatras Website. Trashcan Sinatras this weekend. From a concert they did at The Casbah in San Diego on May 14, 2005. Going through a quick research on my site I noticed that, of all the...
Suzanne Vega – in concert – Dominion Theatre, London – 1990 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Suzanne Vega to end up the week. At the age of nine she began to write poetry. She was encouraged to do so by her stepfather. It...
Nuria Graham – Live At Primavera Sound – 2017 – June 2, 2017 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – New faces and voices tonight. This one comes by way of Spain – Nuria Graham is Irish/Catalonian and 22. Having released her first record in 2013, at the tender age...
Adrienne Pauly – Four By Adrienne Pauly – 2006 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending out the weekend with a few tunes from one of my favorite artists; Adrienne Pauly. Adrienne Pauly is an artist/singer/writer/actor who disappeared shortly after her debut album came out in 2006. There was a...
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