Listening to history on this Memorial Day. Powerful, booming and passionate bass voice singing old spirituals, folk music and protest songs from a past century.
I found this three record box set, several years ago in a local cramped, stuffy used bookstore ..... climb up a rickety spiral staircase in a dimly lit, dusty corner of the store. The sort of sounds that I just can't imagine listening to on compact disc.
Paul Robeson was an actor, college football player, activist and singer who was blacklisted in the 1950's during the McCarthy era.
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues: Live at the Scholar Coffeehouse. On the Oblivion Recording Company label. From 1969. Found today at my old rec...
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'Floating' by Warren Bernhardt. From 1979, on vinyl. I read yesterday, that Warren Bernhardt had passed away a few days ago at 82 ye...
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Peter Gabriel - i/o. It's on order but won't arrive for a few more days. I'm considering taking the day off from work. I used to...
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