breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
This week is the most ambitious BoL ever: we feature a classic from Pharoah Sanders, contemporary music from Dutch vocalist Tirjntje Oosterhuis, and an extensive “Amazing Grace” special that features Ernestine, Dirty Dozen Brass, Mica Paris, Walela, Klazz Brothers & Edson Cordeiro, World Saxophone Quartet, Soweto Gospel Choir, Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra, [...]
Cassandra Does Tokyo (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
You might think your life hard, but I can say without knowing the details it was nothing compared to Country-bluesman Jesse Fuller's. As I've watched events unfold satirizing them along the way with increasing causticity, Mr Fuller's playful tune The Monkey & The Engineer has come recurrently to my mind for it's aptness, culminating in the events this week. Once upon a time there was an engineer. Drove...
Backstage Pass (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Last Week In London Old Venues and New Stars By Peter Coulston Hello and welcome to yet another week of the best of new, live music in London. I hit the ground running this week, choosing to sample the Unplugged...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
(a contraption with a pedal bass for the one foot, high-hat for the other, guitar for the hands, harmonica and kazoo mounted on a neck bracket)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
(1897-1976) Folk music Bob Dylan has sung Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues" since his first nightclub dates in New York. The song was a cornerstone of the '50s folk-blues revival, and Oakland's Fuller was a unique figure on that scene. He called...
Visions of Dylan (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
California Here I Come-Al Jolson California-Joni Mitchell California Blues-Pierce Webb Go West -Geraint Watkins Do You Know The Way To San Jose -Dionne Warwick Mendocino -Sir Douglas Quartet Whittier Boulevard-Thee Midniters Mambo Del Pachuco -Don Tosti Y Su Cojunto Surfer Girl-Dave Alvin San Francisco Bay Blues-Jesse Fuller I’ve Been To Hollywood-Dorothy Shay California Dreamin’ -Bobby Womack Richard...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
So after the last post we decided to move the departure date to August 1st. Then we decided to add a weekend in Madrid so we're leaving this afternoon I am currently ripping the soundtrack of the trip to my mp3player and I thought I'd write a small entry on the selection of music while the technology is busy. Most of the tracks I bring along are made of Norwegian artists. It's not because I
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 07/04/2007
Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-disc Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, a German immigrant and former California schoolteacher whose label reflects a devotion to American roots music at its most vital and varied. Southern bluesmen Mance Lipscomb...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
Both songs today are from a relatively new collection from Smithsonian Folkways called Friends of Old Time Music. It is a three disc collection filled with songs from musicians and singers like Dock Boggs, Bill Monroe, Jesse Fuller, Maybelle Carter and The Stanley Brothers. The music was recorded at 14 concerts in New York City from 1961-1965. There are 55 total tracks of which 53 have never before...
