"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: TBoneWalker1967-09-16MontereyJazzFestivalCA Tonight it’s the Original/One-And-Only/Accept-No-Substitutes T-Bone Walker, in concert at The Monterey Jazz Festival, recorded September 16, 1967. T-Bone Walker was probably one of the most influential and pioneering artists to straddle…
Taking a break this week from our perusal of French Radio transcriptions for another dose of Americana, this time by way of Roy Harris, a composer whose work and recognition have been pretty much limited down to one symphony of…
A buck here, a buck there – it adds up: Become a Patron! Keeping the Americana theme going tonight with a portion of a concert given in Amsterdam by the sadly neglected, maligned and overlooked Moby Grape. Recorded by VPRO…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Strypes – Live At BBC Maida Vale – Feb. 10, 2013 I found this hard to believe at first. The Strypes are an Irish four-piece, firmly in the retro-Hard Rock/Blues mold.…
Become a Patron! A band more people have probably heard about than actually heard, John’s Children were one of those fabled “you-had-to-be-there” bands that loomed high in the pantheon of Psychedelia, but in fact released only one (sort of) album…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Handsome Poets – Eurosonic 2013 Some Dutch Indie/Alternative by way of The Handsome Poets, recorded in a concert at this past month’s Eurosonic 2013 Festival. The Handsome Poets got started in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 77 Bombay Street – Live At Eurosonic 2013 Back over to this months Eurosonic 2013 Festival in Holland, recorded by the venerable (and thorough) VPRO Radio Channel in Hilversum. A set by…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CharlesLloydQuartet1966JuanLesPinsJazzFestivalAntibesFrance One of the pivotal voices in the Free Jazz movement, The Charles Lloyd Quartet (featuring Keith Jarrett), live at the Juan Les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes on July 1966. Here’s…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Revolver – Le Mov’ Concert – Oct. 22, 2012 A side trip to Paris this weekend for a concert featuring Parisian Alternative/Indie band Revolver. Another European band that sings almost exclusively in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1979-06-02 BBC In Concert (Roxy Music) R+ One of the classic bands this weekend. Roxy Music, recorded live in concert on February 6, 1979 by the venerable BBC as part of their In…