Art Decade

The Manhattans: Shining Star

Leon Russell: Home Sweet Oklahoma from Leon Russell And The Shelter People words & music by Leon Russell Leon Russell (piano, guitar, vo...

Francis Lai: Melissa from the Bilitis soundtrack

Beck: Nobody's Fault But My Own Genius melody. He must have been stoked when he wrote this. from Mutations

Chuck Mangione: Feels So Good This one and the theme from "Taxi" are kind of the Romulus and Remus of a sound which, for this wri...

Peter Green: Slabo Day Just For You Funky Chunk vinyl rip, from In The Skies Like a lot of people, I seem to have come down with a spot of P...

Eric Gale: East Side, West Side Negril Sea Sunset from the enigmatic Negril Eric Gale (lead guitar), Peter Tosh (rhythm guitar), Richard Tee...

Bob Dylan: Boots of Spanish Leather I hadn't heard this one before tonight. Recommended by a classmate, DD. A lot of genius. I ought t...

Keith Mansfield: Big Shot [1975] Skinnyman: Not Bonnie And Clyde [2004] ...and for kicks: Keith Mansfield: Big Shot (slowed down by 8%) [197...

Elvis Presley: Bridge Over Troubled Water [1970] An American Trilogy [1972] Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy [1971] Elvis's songs ta...

Lou Reed & John Cale: Smalltown From one of my favorite albums. Buy it here .

Gerry Rafferty: Right Down The Line Röcktöberfest 2K7 continues with this not-so-deep cut from the City To City LP. I always liked the way ...

Bee Gees: The Earnest Of Being George I sought this one out on the advice of this guy , and I'll be damned if it doesn't sound a lit...

The Merseys: Sorrow I just found out about 8 minutes ago that this was originally by the McCoys.

Betty Wright: Show Your Girl Betty Wright: Don't Thank Me Baby, Thank Yourself Betty Wright scored a Grammy for Best R&B song for Wh...

Tony Schwartz: Children And God from Tony Schwartz Records The Sounds Of Children He could be sitting on the table right now but you can...

Total Unity: Green-Eyed Lady produced by Frank Slay

Jack Fender: Put Your Love In Me Every One Is A Winner (sic) from Jack Fender spielt die schönsten Gitarren-Welterfolge (Guitar-Tops Vol. 2)

John Cale: Hanky Panky Nohow This cut has been back in heavy rotation for me lately. The most wizard song on the album, for this writer.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Greyhound What the! This album is 13 years old?! I remember picking the shiny CD cover off the shelf at T...

TWO FOR TUESDAY Average White Band & Ben E. King: Get It Up For Love [1977] Johnny Rivers: Get It Up For Love [1974] Here are two more v...

Robert Palmer: Not a Second Time Robert Palmer covering some fellow Brits. Buy Robert Palmer here .

Ted Nugent: Free-For-All [1976] When Oliver Fisher Winchester died in 1880, his ownership in Winchester Rifles passed to his son, William, w...

The Cars: Got a Lot On My Head The Cars: Since I Held You The Cars: Candy O These three tracks are taken off the unreleased Monitor Mixes. B...

The Thought: There's a Boy [1982] The Thought: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night [1982] The Thought: Rebels [1982] Three songs off the ...

Brian Eno: The True Wheel featuring Phil Manzanera on guitar, bending both minds and strings at the 3:13 mark.

Gabor Szabo: The Last Song Time for the obligatory bi-monthly Gabor post. This one comes to us from the enigmatic Faces LP. My favorite par...

Linda Hoyle: Black Crow from Pieces of Me

Fab Five Freddy: Change The Beat

Bridge: Stick Your Finger In The Ground (And Turn The World Around) b/w Stick Your Finger (instrumental) Homegrown heat from Greensboro, Nor...

Cass McCombs: So Damn Pure [2002] Cass McCombs: I Went to the Hospital [2003] Cass McCombs: Subtraction [2005] Last week I took my head out ...

Grateful Dead: Dancing In The Streets (JAZ edit) Thanks and praises to JAZ for doing this! It also happens to coincide neatly with the publ...

Elton John: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding I've been raging and re-raging this pocket symphonia on my subway rides lately. Afte...

Honk: Tunnel Of Love from the soundtrack to Five Summer Stories from the liner notes: "HONK lives in the hills of Laguna Beach...the en...

Freddie Hubbard: Little Sunflower (Theo Parrish edit) This is Theo's 2002 edit of Freddie's 1979 recording. About those crackles: mo...

Fleetwood Mac: Prove Your Love from Heroes Are Hard To Find written and sung by Christine McVie, and featuring Christine on all keyboards.

The Move: Tonight [1971] Written by Roy Wood with Jeff Lynne sharing production credit and vocals. When the bridge hits at 1:23 the song bre...

The Sir Douglas Quintet: Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day from The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975

Daevid Allen: 333 from the album N'Existe Pas!

Thelonious Monk: I Should Care from the indispensable Solo Monk recorded in sunny Los Angeles, CA on October 31st, 1964 written by Sammy Cah...

Miles Davis: Great Expectations vinyl rip, from Big Fun Recorded November 19th, 1969, in New York City. Featuring Miles, Steve, Bennie, Herb...

Prelude: After The Goldrush

Telex: Tell Me It's a Dream [1984] Telex: It Could Happen To You [1984] Later avant-garde electronic pop from Belgians Marc Moulin, Dan ...

Billy Preston: I Wrote a Simple Song [1972] Billy Preston: Will It Go Around in Circles [1973] Two hits from the fifth Beatle. Sheridan Dupr...

Rolling Stones: If I Was A Dancer (Dance pt. 2) b/w Dance (instrumental) When SPC raged the original version of this back in March, a list...

Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steve Stills: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from Super Session

Positive Noise: Positive Negative [1982] Positive Noise: Feel the Fear [1982] Scottish New Wave. ib? Buy the vinyl here . Also: "Betwe...

The Fixx: Reach The Beach (dub) This is a dream chimney re-rage, dedicated to Jasi . available on CD

Alice Coltrane With Strings: Galaxy Around Satchidananda from the album World Galaxy recorded November 15 & 16, 1971, at The Record Plan...

The Only Ones: From Here To Eternity from Even Serpents Shine I grabbed this out of the "O" section at the record shop the other d...