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books
music
essays
home exploratories
new this month
music
reviews
mostly
strange old things, somewhat
neglected classics
& a large dose of history
(for those so inclined)
39. Sidney
Bechet: Volume 10 - 1940 (Masters of Jazz MJCD
100)
38. The
Staple Singers: Uncloudy Day (Charly CPCD 8087)
37. Sleepy
John Estes: First Recordings (JSP 6001)
36. Link
Wray: Walkin’ With Link (Epic/Legacy EK
47904)
35. Henry
“Red” Allen: World on a String (Bluebird
2497-2-RB)
34. Mississippi
John Hurt: Avalon Blues (Columbia/Legacy CK 64986)
33. Blind
James Campbell & his Nashville Street Band
(Arhoolie 438)
32. The
Peter Brotzmann Octet: Machine Gun (FMP CD 24)
31. The
Secret Museum of Mankind Vol I (Yazoo 7004)
30.
Burnett
& Rutherford (Document DOCD-8025)
29. Thelonious
Monk: Thelonious
Himself (Riverside OJCCD-254-2)
28. Sonny
Boy Williamson: King
Biscuit Time (Arhoolie CD 310)
27. Link
Wray: Wray’s
Three Track Shack (Acadia 8082)
26. Memphis
Minnie & Kansas Joe: Volume
1 (Document DOCD-5028)
25. Charles
Mingus: Oh
Yeah (Atantic 8122-75359-2)
24. Dead
& Gone # 1 (Trikont US-0234)
23. Rural
String Bands of Virginia (County CD-3502)
22. Booker
T & the MGs:
Funky Broadway (Stax SCD-8567-2)
21. Altamont: Black Stringband Music (Rounder CD 0238)
20.
Astor Piazolla: Tango:
Zero Hour (American Clave)
19. Mahalia
Jackson: How
I Got Over (Westside)
18. Iry LeJeune: The
Definitive Collection (Ace)
17: Tim Buckley: happy/sad
(Elektra)
16: Cedell Davis: Feel
Like Doin' Somebody Wrong (Fat Possum)
15. Maureen
Tucker: I
Spent a Week There the Other Night (Sky)
14: Jaybird Coleman: Complete
Recordings
(Document)
13.
James Brown: Love
Power Peace (Polydor)
12.
Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana
(Chess/MCA)
11.
Randy Newman: Sail
Away (Reprise)
10. The Soul Stirrers: He's
My Rock: their early sides (P-Vine)
9. Frozen
Brass: Asia (Pan)
8. Bessie Tucker: Complete
Recordings (Document)
7. Old-Time
Mountain Ballads
(County)
6. Professor Longhair: New
Orleans Piano (Atlantic)
5.
Frank Sinatra: Where
are you? (Capitol)
4. Terry Riley: Reed
Streams/L'Infonie - In C (Mantra) (organ of
Cortie)
3. Black
Banjo Songsters of North Carolina & Virginia
(Smithsonian Folkways)
2. Annette Peacock:
X-Dreams (See
For Miles)
1. A
Treasury of Library of Congress Recordings
(Rounder)
Nathan Abshire: Pine
Grove Blues/The Good Times Are Killing Me (Ace)
Albert Ayler: Goin'
Home (Black Lion)
Backwoods Blues 1926-1935
(Document)
Ed Bell/Barefoot Bill/Sluefoot Joe: Complete
Recordings (Document)
Sidney Bechet: Young
Sidney Bechet: 1923-1925 (Timeless)
Bobby Bland: Turn on
Your Love Light (Duke)
The Blues World of Little
Walter (Delmark)
Dock Boggs: Country
Blues (Revenant)
Tim Buckley: Live at
the Troubadour: 1969 (Rhino/Bizarre)
Sonny Burgess: Classic
Recordings: 1956-9 (Bear Family)
John Cale: Music For
a New Society (Rhino)
Gus Cannon: Walk Right
In (Stax)
Alex Chilton: Like Flies
on Sherbert (Last Call)
Country Brass Bands
(Folkways CDR)
James Luther Dickinson: Dixie
Fried (Sepia Tone)
Scott Dunbar: From Lake
Mary (Fat Possum)
Duke Ellington: Solos,
Duets and Trios (Bluebird)
Brother Claude Ely: Satan
Get Back! (Ace)
Eureka Brass Band: New
Orleans Funeral & Parade (American Music)
John Fahey & his Orchestra: Old
Fashioned Love (Takoma)
Charlie Feathers: Uh
Huh Honey (Norton)
Fred Frith: Guitar Solos
(Fred)
Frozen Brass: Africa
& Latin America (Pan)
Funky Broadway: Stax
Revue live at the 5/4 Ballroom (Stax)
Golden Eagles: Lightning
& Thunder (Rounder)
The Greatest Songsters:
Complete Works: 1927-1929 (Document)
The Great Harp Players:
1927-1936 (Document)
John Lee Hooker: It
Serves You Right to Suffer (Beat Goes On)
Lightnin' Hopkins: Remember
Me (Ember)
Howlin' Wolf: Howling
Wolf Rides Again (Ace)
The Kinks: Live at Kelvin
Hall (Sanctuary)
Dennis McGee: Complete
Early Recordings: 1929-1930 (Yazoo)
Mississippi Fred McDowell: Amazing
Grace (Testament)
The Meters: The Meters
(Sundazed)
New
Waver: 'the defeated'
(Spill)
Wooden Joe Nicholas: Wooden
Joe Nicholas (American Music)
The Premiers: Farmer
John Live (Collector's Choice)
Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid
(Impulse!)
Eric Satie: Satie: The
Early Piano Works (Phillips)
The Seeds: Raw &
Alive at Merlin's Music Box (GNP Crescendo)
Frankie Lee Sims: Lucy
Mae Blues (Speciality)
Steeleye Span: Parcel
of Rogues (Beat Goes On)
Twenty First St. Stomp:
The Piano Blues of St. Louis (Yazoo)
Dionne Warwick: Hidden
Gems (Rhino)
Big Joe Williams: These
Are My Blues (Testament)
Robert Pete Williams: Long
Ol Way From Home: The Chicago Sessions (Fuel 2000)
Link Wray: Beans &
Fatback (Virgin)
&
if you reckon I'm joking,
I already have earlier/shorter published versions
of most of these
+
a note to labels,
I'm looking for more of similar
quality...not only whatever's on your current release
schedule - and much of the best is (invariably) back catalogue
but...I will review current work,
only (however) if it is genuinely exceptional
and, by the way...I paid for all (but one) of the above
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