Gather Around Folks, It's Old Timey Hour

Various Artists - Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians.

Keeping great traditional tunes alive!! Old timey harmonica, fiddle, guitar, dulcimer and banjo tunes. You can almost see the players, sitting on their front porch, with children, friends and neighbors all gathered around, picking, clapping and stomping away.

Part of my ongoing search for obscure and historical recordings. They shouldn't be forgotten. Found this one recently on vinyl. Great artwork on the cover.

1960's AM Radio Hits Playlist

Very little causes a sense of aching (as in something I miss badly) nostalgia for me like memories of times spent listening to AM-radio hits from the later half of the 1960's. A time when radio was king!! Memories of anxiously waiting by your radio because you knew that one of your favorite songs would be playing soon. Just when I was reaching the age where I began to notice that there was more to the world around me besides sports ..... like music. Oh and girls also.

• The Turtles - You Showed Me
• The Troggs - Love Is All Around
• Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
• The Delfonics - La La Means I Love You
• The Foundations - Baby Now That I've Found You
• Gary Puckett and The Union Gap - Young Girl
• Eric Burdon and The Animals - San Francisco Nights
• The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
• The Guess Who - These Eyes
• The Box Tops - Cry Like a Baby
• Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn
• The Seekers - Georgy Girl

I've likely noted most of these songs here previously but they deserve repeated listenings. From a genuinely unique time in music. Makes me wish that at least a few people still wrote music like this.

Watching and Hearing

It's very wet and windy outside so there's a lot of time for music.

Via car radio, iTunes, dvr and Youtube ...... Just some stuff that I've heard this weekend at what seemed like just the right moment for each.

• Mimicking Birds - Burning Stars
• R.E.M. - What's the Frequency Kenneth?
• Star Anna - Nerves
• Mumford & Sons - Ditmas
• Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
• Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
• Joseph Arthur - Travel As Equals
• Joseph Arthur - Saint of Impossible Causes
• Bob Mould - The Silence Between Us

The Velvet Underground

From 1969. Two evenings at a club in San Francisco. Live recordings. And the voice of Lou Reed!! Helping take rock music of the later half of the 1960's in a different direction. A fascinating listen from a fascinating period of music.