"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Anna Calvi – live at The Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York – Dec. 13, 2011 Special thanks tonight to our Bristol UK correspondent Mig Schillace for mentioning Anna Calvi to me. I had only heard about her but not actually...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ocean Colour Scene – live at Manchester Apollo – 1998 – BBC 6 Music History is jammed with bands who got sidetracked somewhere out of the starting gate and never regained their momentum; crashing and burning and left with a legacy...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 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 likes of Sandy...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Mott The Hoople – In Concert at The Paris Theatre – 1971 – BBC 6 Music Sometimes I run into a dilemma, of sorts, over what to post for the “roundtable” feature. Tonight it was choice over whether to run the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Elvis Costello and The Attractions -Live At Hope and Anchor – 1980 – BBC 6 Music This might kick off a return to 80s week, but I’m not sure yet. When I first heard Elvis Costello it was when Watching The...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Nanci Griffith – live at the 1992 Cambridge Folk Festival – BBC 6 Music A change of pace tonight. No reason, but I don’t recall running any Nanci Griffith on Past Daily ever – so tonight’s a make-good on that. Here...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Miguel – live at Malmö, Sweden – recorded live by Sveriges Radio P3 – August 5, 2013 Over to Malmö Sweden tonight for a mini-concert by West Coast native Miguel, recorded by Sveriges Radio in January of this year and broadcast...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jack White, live in Stockholm – July 30, 2013 – Sveriges Radio P3. Over to Stockholm tonight for a concert by Blues/Punk-meister Jack White, recorded live by the venerable Sveriges Radio P3 during a race around Europe this summer. A full-plate, according...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Monica Heldal in concert at the 2013 Øya Festival, Oslo Norway – August 10, 2013 Further evidence New Folk has become a universal phenomenon in recent years. Monica Heldal is a twenty-one year old Norwegian singer/songwriter who has been playing since...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Emerson, Lake And Palmer – Live At Beat Club, 1970 – RBB Berlin When you consider that Emerson, Lake and Palmer were the first Progressive Supergroup to emerge on the scene in 1970 (Keith Emerson from the then-recently broken up Nice,...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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