Art Decade

Claude Bolling: Full Speed Because I couldn't resist after Sheridan's Thursday's post. Here we have Claude in a swingin' moo...

Muddy Waters: Deep Down in Florida I'm goin' down to Florida Where the sun shines damn near every day...

Claude Bolling: Sentimentale from Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano That's Jean-Pierre Rampal on flute, Marcel Sabiani on drums, and (who e...

Dave Brubeck: Theme from "Mr Broadway" and Winter Ballad Two from Jazz Impressions of New York . The first was the theme song to a...

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos It's all been ground down to molasses. The Band: Ain't No More Cane Little wiki on the...

Marginal Sound Quality Upgrade! Brett Smiley - Run For The Sun Hey gang, I thought the mp3 I posted of this as part of this collection was ...

COUNTDOWN TO ECSTASY The new Viva show drops today at 2 PM: that's just 26 minutes away if you're in the EST. Today's show featu...

Prince Alla: Bucket Bottom " Every day the bucket a-go to the well One day the bottom must drop out. " Purchase single here .

IT'S A BRAND NEW DECADE (so let a man come in and do the popcorn) Tangled Up In Blue (demo) - Bob Dylan

DJ Emmett presents fin de la décennie spectacular Good Time Coming - Mustard Lucy Lu - Bob Summers I Won't Step On Your Shoes - Barnaby...

Dear friends: the new Viva show drops today. A retrospective of musical highlights from 2009, i.e. an assortment of some of the best stuff I...

The Death of Mistakes Means The Death Of Rock

Bert Jansch: Wayward Child

Anne Murray: Danny's Song This is a Kenny Loggins joint. Wikipedia can tell me it was written for Kenny Loggins's brother's chi...

The Temptations: Smiling Faces Sometimes That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain...

Fairport Convention: Tried So Hard The FC doing old GC...

FROM THE ARCHIVES Play loud & often during holiday festivities. [ original air date 11.07.08 ] Black on White Affair: Auld Lang Syne Rea...

Eurythmics: Love is a Stranger You think this is the best stanza ever written on the topic of love: It's savage and it's cruel And i...

Imagine if Mark E. Smith were Santa Claus. O.K., let's not. The Fall: L.A.

"The Seventies never ended." Sean the Philosopher Bateman this time. What a stupid thing to say, I'm thinking. What a strange ...

Herbie Hancock: Junku Off of Sound System and evidently written for the '84 Olympic games in LA.

Chick Corea: What Game Shall We Play Today? The players: Chick Corea, electric piano Joe Farrell, flutes, soprano sax Flora Purim, vocals, p...

Wednesdays simply don't get any bigger than this, people. Not only does our sparkling new Viva Radio show drop today at 2 PM (hear it on...

The Flatmates: My Empty Head Band bio here or here .

SAVE YOUR DATE This Wednesday, December 9th, DJ Emmett rides the wheels of steel at Heathers Bar , 506 East 13th Street, between avenues A ...

Dave Brubeck: Thank You (Dziekuje) Off of Jazz Impressions of Eurasia .

The Chambers Brothers: Love, Peace and Happiness No serial comma, no problem.

The Beach Boys: Farmer's Daughter

Ten Years After: As the Sun Still Burns Away Shall we get our Ten Years After on? Methinks the answer is yea.

James Carr: A Message to Young Lovers Howard Tate: Hold Me Tight

David Kilgour: Wooden Shed

"Tell the Mahareesh to Keep It Warm" Thought it was long enough since the last post of Flo & Eddie . Enjoy.

Nick Lowe: So It Goes At first you want to start singing: You know that chick that used to dance a lot Every night she'd be on the floor...

The Byrds: He Was a Friend of Mine President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 46 years ago in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

You didn't hear? The 80th installment of our Viva Radio show drops today at 2 PM, featuring some new-to-me stuff (including a hot ...

David Holland Quartet: Conference of the Birds "While living in London I had an apartment with a small garden. During the summer around...

emmett's october playlist Le Nozze Di Figaro (Overture) - Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Wind - Sons Of The Pioneers Holiday On Saturn - Del...

Our latest show for Viva Radio , entitled "Midnight Rainbows", premieres today at 2 PM. See comments for tracklist. Archived shows...

WAITING FOR RECORDS IN THE MAIL The October playlist is coming soon, pending the arrival of some records in the post. Soon come, rastas; soo...

Ever wonder what to do with some of your old tape cassettes? Brian Dettmer, Cassette Tape Skeletons

New Viva show drops today at 2 PM! Entitled "First Day in L.A.", this one is guaranteed to blow your mind... anytime. Listen live...

Lee Michaels: Do You Know What I Mean? This always reminds me of an outtake from the Born in the USA sessions. Not high praise perhaps, but...

I think these songs fit together nicely. Bowie: The Supermen Broadcast on the BBC, October 4, 1971. Midlake: We Gathered In Spring Broadcast...

Lou Reed: Endlessly Jealous Oh beware, my Lord, of Jealousy It is the green-eyed Monster which doth mock The Meat it feeds on.

Leo Sayer: When I Need You Co-written by Albert Hammond Sr. And this from 1978 definitely deserves your attention. Though it does raise more...

Note: Our latest program for Viva Radio premieres to-day at 2 PM. Featuring some new-to-me stuff, some old favorites, and a handful of dusky...

Brigitte Fontaine: Il se passes des choses Following in the footsteps of Mrs. Fontaine's last visit to AD .

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Summer Days It doesn't feel like summer anymore, not today anyways, but that doesn't me...

The Stranglers: Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front) ...only country where the clouds are interesting "Too much time to think, too l...