Art Decade

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Pretty much all you need to know about American history is contained in this.

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Maceys Window - It's Getting Harder Sunshine Theatre - Mountain Two sunbaked 45s from '71, lovingly compiled on this . Maceys Window...

Peter Gabriel: Disturbed (alternate take) When this soundtrack came out there were many nights I would put this on before bed. For years ...

Lesson of the day. Jacob Miller: Each One Teach One

Townes Van Zandt: I'll Be Here in the Morning

FROM THE ARK HIVE East Of Eden - Northern Hemisphere Hearing this again the other day, I was reminded of an article recently linked to by Bi...

FROM THE ARCHIVES Merry Clayton - Tell All The People Original air-date: 1/30/2007. Words & music by Robbie Krieger. Paul Humphrey on dr...

FROM THE ARCHIVES original air-date: 4/15/07

Green Arrows - The Towering Inferno Inspired by the film. Best flubbed guitar note at 1:02.

Aiight fools, this is going to be on the spring playlist (whenever I finish it) but throwing caution to the wind I've decided to "l...

A toast for the great photographer Jim Marshall . One of many obits here .

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Cass McCombs: The Executioner's Song I just can't get this out of my head.

Sun Kil Moon: Si, Paloma

Erroll Garner - Fantasy On Frankie And Johnny

Basement Jaxx (featuring Yoko): Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)

Suede - My Insatiable One Featuring a lead tone from Bernard Butler that had me doing air-guitar on the treadmill earlier today. Ripped from...

Frederick Knight: I've Been Lonely for So Long

Emmett presents: Winter-Harvest side one Zmirneikos Balos - Maria Papagika The Woman Of Our Day - Svanfridur Pastels - Keith Cross & Pet...

Led Zeppelin: Going to California (live) Courtesy of John Peel's BBC Rock Hour @ Paris Studios in London Say you wanted to rewrite this ...

FROM THE '07 ARCHIVES: Boozoo Chavis: Paper in my Shoe Recorded in Austin, Texas, this 45 launched the King of Zydeco into dance halls i...

Roy Ayers: And Don't You Say No Off of You Send Me .

Michael Nesmith: Joanne

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 ...

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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...

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