The Dirty Business Of Dreams

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• Luiz Bonfa 'Manha De Carnival'
  on Aug 29, 2012 in haunting reflective elegant evocative
  Stumbled across this one today whilst hunting for music and rememered what a beautiful piece it is: haunting, evocative, elegant and reflective. Link to purchase MP3.... Manha De Carnival And if you want the whole Black Orpheus soundtrack on...
• Joseph Spence
  on Jul 18, 2012
  Joseph Spence was a Bahamian guitarist and singer first recording by the inimitable Samuel Charters for Folkways Recordings (more on Samuel in future posts no doubt). Joseph's music probably didn't get the recognition it deserved due to it's lack of...
• Chopsticks Guitar
  on Jun 6, 2012
  Billy Mure was a successful session musician for artists such as Della Reece and Bobby Freeman. It all changed around 1957 when he became heavily inspired by Les Paul's experimental work multi-tracking with a tape recorder. It was then the Supersonic...
• The Human Horn
  on Jun 1, 2012
  Shooby Taylor was like no other. A true one of a kind. A maverick. A 'scat' singer but not as we know it. Little is known about William "Shooby" Taylor other than he was born in 1929 in Pennsylvania and made a dozen or so recordings in the early 80's...
• Wendy Mae and the Car Horn Organ
  on Apr 30, 2012
  Wendy Mae Chambers was never short on ideas. She also wasn't that into doing things by half. Works highlights include:MUSIC FOR CHOREOGRAPHED ROWBOATS for 24 musicians in rowboats Central Park, NYC THE VILLAGE GREEN – for 3 marching bands, tow...
• Aristide Bruant
  on Apr 20, 2012
  Off to "La Ville-Lumière" this weekend so feel it's only right to highlight one of it's many great blaggards: Aristide Bruant. The "Don Rickles" of his time. Faint praise indeed. Far more than an obnoxious bigot, Aristide was all things to all men:...
• Wild Bill's
  on Apr 15, 2012
  Memphis, Tennessee. Home of the Blues. If you've been in recent years, like me, you'll have discovered it's a pile of schlocky poop, Beale Street being a Disnefied incarnation of something once great and good. There is one exception to this rule in m...
• Kris Kristofferson Briefly...
  on Apr 9, 2012 in Kris Kristofferson Jesus Was A Capricorn lyricist Best Of All Possible Worlds Country Sunday Morning Coming Down
  If Kris had not dueted with Barbara Streisand and had only made good movies, many people may have regarded his music more favorably. I won't give a life history as there will be many to find elsewhere. I will however point out his exception craft as...
• Bunker Hill
  on Apr 6, 2012 in Link Wray Bunker Hill R and B Blues

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