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Bill Scott singing a chirstmas carol, words and music by Bill Evans. From a compilation put together by his son, Bill Evans-Very Early Volume 1. It almost works!
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Bill Scott singing a chirstmas carol, words and music by Bill Evans. From a compilation put together by his son, Bill Evans-Very Early Volume 1. It almost works!
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Not sure how or when this was released. It's not on the original 63, Christmas with McGriff. Maybe it was part of some reissue. Whatever, this rhumbaesque take is my current favorite version.
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Not sure how or when this was released. It's not on the original 63, Christmas with McGriff. Maybe it was part of some reissue. Whatever, this rhumbaesque take is my current favorite version.
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From their 2022 EP, The Longest Night. Happy solstice!
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From their 2022 EP, The Longest Night. Happy solstice!
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From her new album, A Very Carper Christmas. C&W bossa nova. I like the whole vibe of flat, festive resignation that Carper creates here.
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From her new album, A Very Carper Christmas. C&W bossa nova. I like the whole vibe of flat, festive resignation that Carper creates here.
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A terrific beatlesque/merseybeat christmas pastiche from the scottish retro popsters. Originally released in 1996, though I think it's been reissued several times since.
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A terrific beatlesque/merseybeat christmas pastiche from the scottish retro popsters. Originally released in 1996, though I think it's been reissued several times since.
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From 1991, Redd Kross celebrates christmas in the southern hemisphere, though it looks like this all fits with the forecast for our christmas here this year!
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From 1991, Redd Kross celebrates christmas in the southern hemisphere, though it looks like this all fits with the forecast for our christmas here this year!
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As great as the live versions are, this studio track from 1978's Honky Tonk Masquerade remains my all time favorite take on this terrific Butch Hancock song.
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As great as the live versions are, this studio track from 1978's Honky Tonk Masquerade remains my all time favorite take on this terrific Butch Hancock song.
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Joe Ely was in one of my all-time favorite bands, The Flatlanders. It's a tangled story, but they made a bunch of recordings in 1972 for a debut...
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Joe Ely was in one of my all-time favorite bands, The Flatlanders. It's a tangled story, but they made a bunch of recordings in 1972 for a debut...
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Video of a live performance in Lubbock on 5/11/80. In addition to Ely, that's Jesse Taylor/guitar, LLoyd Maines (Natalie’s dad)/ pedal steel, Ponty Bone/accordion, and I don't know who the drum and bass players are.
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Video of a live performance in Lubbock on 5/11/80. In addition to Ely, that's Jesse Taylor/guitar, LLoyd Maines (Natalie’s dad)/ pedal steel, Ponty Bone/accordion, and I don't know who the drum and bass players are.
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Hadn't thought about them in ages, but I really like a lot of stuff by these Welsh oddball popsters. From their 1997 album, Barafundle. "There's better foods in better feasts and better kings in better lands."
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Hadn't thought about them in ages, but I really like a lot of stuff by these Welsh oddball popsters. From their 1997 album, Barafundle. "There's better foods in better feasts and better kings in better lands."
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From the album released last April, Primal Colors. McNeely was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger who died this September. Really love the orchestrations.
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From the album released last April, Primal Colors. McNeely was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger who died this September. Really love the orchestrations.
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A lovely piece for solo piano from the 83-year-old jazz pianist's recent album, Solace of the Mind.
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A lovely piece for solo piano from the 83-year-old jazz pianist's recent album, Solace of the Mind.
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From 1998, a goofy video of an early hit. This song is so great.
RIP Raul Malo
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From 1998, a goofy video of an early hit. This song is so great.
RIP Raul Malo
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From Benson's 1977 album, In Flight. Phil Upchurch is playing bass on this cover of a Donny Hathaway original.
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From Benson's 1977 album, In Flight. Phil Upchurch is playing bass on this cover of a Donny Hathaway original.
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Upchurch was the bass player on the Staples iconic 1965 live album.
RIP Phil Upchurch
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Upchurch was the bass player on the Staples iconic 1965 live album.
RIP Phil Upchurch
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From their 1969 album, Jammed Together. One of the few, maybe the only, tracks I've come across where Cropper is singing lead vocals. Cropper wrote this with Eddie Floyd.
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From their 1969 album, Jammed Together. One of the few, maybe the only, tracks I've come across where Cropper is singing lead vocals. Cropper wrote this with Eddie Floyd.
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I probably listened to Phil Upchurch as much as Steve Cropper growing up, I just didn't know about him until much later. A guitar/bass session musician, also a composer, arranger and producer.
RIP Phil Upchurch
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I probably listened to Phil Upchurch as much as Steve Cropper growing up, I just didn't know about him until much later. A guitar/bass session musician, also a composer, arranger and producer.
RIP Phil Upchurch
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Been listening to Steve Cropper play guitar for as long as I can remember. His parts were often perfect, he had a knack for crafting just the right passage. Also a great producer, arranger, and songwriter.
RIP Steve Cropper
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Been listening to Steve Cropper play guitar for as long as I can remember. His parts were often perfect, he had a knack for crafting just the right passage. Also a great producer, arranger, and songwriter.
RIP Steve Cropper
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From WFMU's Free Music Archive, a live, in studio, recording from 2011. I don't know much about Nadler, though she's been around for a while, but i heard this song recently and thought it was terrific.
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From WFMU's Free Music Archive, a live, in studio, recording from 2011. I don't know much about Nadler, though she's been around for a while, but i heard this song recently and thought it was terrific.
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The Pretty Things were a band I heard about but never heard much of. I don't know the reasons but they didn't tour the US at the height of the British Invasion and never had much of a presence here after.
RIP Viv Prince
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The Pretty Things were a band I heard about but never heard much of. I don't know the reasons but they didn't tour the US at the height of the British Invasion and never had much of a presence here after.
RIP Viv Prince
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From the Berlin group's 2024 album, Open Source. You can hear the Stereolab, but it still manages to be their own thing. I'm really fond of this track.
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From the Berlin group's 2024 album, Open Source. You can hear the Stereolab, but it still manages to be their own thing. I'm really fond of this track.
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From Sung's 2021 album, Quartet+. Sung's arrangement of the Geri Allen classic. Featuring the Harlem Quartet. Terrific arrangement and performance.
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From Sung's 2021 album, Quartet+. Sung's arrangement of the Geri Allen classic. Featuring the Harlem Quartet. Terrific arrangement and performance.
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Back in the day I somehow missed Buckley's awesome cover of the MC5 classic. Live performance at Columbia Records Radio Hour, 06/04/1995.
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Back in the day I somehow missed Buckley's awesome cover of the MC5 classic. Live performance at Columbia Records Radio Hour, 06/04/1995.
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Clip from the 1964 BBC documentary, This Is Ska (that is now on my watch list). Great performance and i love the dancing and all the shots of the audience.
RIP Jimmy Cliff
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Clip from the 1964 BBC documentary, This Is Ska (that is now on my watch list). Great performance and i love the dancing and all the shots of the audience.
RIP Jimmy Cliff