you could download OLD TIME RELIGION

|August 14, 2011 | Found Sounds, You Could Download

 

*Hi, this link was active for a number of years, I took it down recently, sorry.

I was just listening to this compilation I made of gospel music from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. It’s just, if you’re open and in the right mood, there’s nothing better. Sunday morning songs, for you, here. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard anything as hair-raising and heavy as Rev. Anderson Johnson’s Death In The Morning.

*****

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

OLD TIME RELIGION

01. Son House : John The Revelator

02. Roosevelt Graves & Brother : Woke Up This Morning

03. Chuck Wagon Gang : As The Life Of A Flower

04. Washington Phillips : Lift Him Up That’s All

05. The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet : Rock My Soul

06. Mahalia Jackson : God’s Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares

07. Rev.Gary Davis : I Belong To The Band-Hallelujah!

08. Thomas A. Dorsey : How About You

09. The Trumpeteers : Milky White Way

10. The Johnson Family Singers : Deliverance Will Come

11. The Empire Jubilee Quartet : Get Right Church

12. Uncle Dave Macon : The Bible’s True

13. James & Martha Carson : I’ll Fly Away

14. Flatt & Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys : That Home Above

15. Washington Phillips : What Are They Doing In Heaven

16. Rev. Anderson Johnson : Death In The Morning

17. The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet : Found A Wonderful Savior

18. Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers : I Remember Calvary

19. Blind Willie Johnson : Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There

20. Rev. W.M. Moseley : If You Follow Jesus

21. The Brown’s Ferry Four : Keep On The Firing Line

22. Blind Willie McTell : I Got To Cross The River Jordan

23. Mahalia Jackson : Amazing Grace

24. The Carter Family : Keep On The Sunny Side

25. Sister Rosetta Tharpe : Strange Things Happen Every Day

26. Rev. T.T. Rose & Singers : Goodbye Babylon Pt.II

27. Dorothy Melton : I Want Jesus To Walk With Me

you could download J.’S VINYL XMAS CARD

|December 9, 2010 | Found Sounds, Philosophy, You Could Download

 

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Until now, I haven’t ever thought about why I enjoy collecting Christmas records. Most of them are pretty lame, so they’re easy to get, at thrift stores ( did every single member of the WWII generation listen to nothing but Mantovani, Sing Along With Mitch and Al Hirt? Jesus. ) or when the vinyl shops put out a box or two of them around the holidays .. I guess that’s part of it, but here‘s a collection of yule-time tunes ( mostly from my old records, and a few from other places ) which I really, genuinely like, for a number of different reasons.

J.’S VINYL XMAS CARD

01. The Beach Boys : Merry Christmas, Baby

02. Ed Harcourt : In The Bleak Midwinter

03. Lead Belly : Christmas is-A-Coming

04. Akim & Teddy Vann : Santa Clause Is A Black Man

05. Merle Haggard : If We Make It Through December

06. Rotary Connection : Silent Night Chant

07. Claudine Longet : Snow

08. Butterbeans & Susie : Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus ( And Mama Ain’t No Christmas Tree )

09. Jimmy McGriff : The Christmas Song

10. The Handsome Family : So Much Wine

11. Lord Beginner : Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning

12. The Moog Machine : Little Town Of Bethlehem

13. Little Cindy : Happy Birthday Jesus ( A Child’s Prayer )

14. Lou Rawls : The Little Drummer Boy

15. Kelly Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Paul Hayes, & Matthew Johnson : Holy Babe

16. Paul Revere & The Raiders : Rain, Sleet, Snow

17. Lou Rawls : Good Time Christmas

18. Leroy Carr : Christmas In Jail – Ain’t That A Pain

19. Rotary Connection : Santa’s Little Helpers

20. The Beach Boys : Auld Lang Syne

21. Lightnin’ Hopkins : Happy New Year

you could download STRIKE UNDER

|August 4, 2010 | Found Sounds, You Could Download

 

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What : Strike Under’s 1981 Immediate Action 5-song EP, important and very good early Chicago punk record, 12″ 45rpm, hand-screened cover

Label : The first release by Wax Trax! Records

Purchased : 1981, Wax Trax!, 2449 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, by J.Yuenger, 14 years old

Your price : free

It’s The Coolest New Orleans Record EVER

|July 31, 2010 | Found Sounds, New Orleans Music, You Could Download

 

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.. and it was recorded in 1967 on borrowed studio time in Los Angeles by a crew of eccentric, heroin-addicted, paranoid New Orleanians led by Malcolm John ‘Mac’ Rebennack, Jr., who was on the run from the cops, sleeping on floors, and, for the first time, playing the character of mystic /shaman /voodoo priest Dr.John.

Gris-Gris is one of the most psychedelic records I’ve ever heard, but not in a rock n’ roll fuzz-wah-wah-acid sort of way. Dr.John conjures up a timeless, dark, magic place – literally, this sounds like it could have been recorded in a swamp to an audience of frogs, blinking in the moonlight. You can download the tracks here, which are taken from my original vinyl copy. Note : if you’re a windows user and are having problems opening files from this site, try 7-Zip.

Here’s more, from Rebennack’s excellent autobiography Dr.John : Under A Hoodoo Moon :

” In 1967, after a couple of years of studio and other kinds of sidetripping in L.A., me and my New Orleans partners-in-exile finally fell into a situation where we could cut an LP on an idea I’d had since before I left New Orleans. I had always thought we could work up an interesting New Orleans-based concept behind the persona of the legendary conjureman Dr.John. This would not only allow for a dash of gris-gris in the lyrics but would also let us musicians get into a stretched-out New Orleans groove. With the help of Harold Battiste, we recorded at Gold Star Studios between sessions Sonny & Cher were doing there for Atlantic Records. The album we created, Gris-Gris, was heavy on rhythm, percussion, and guitar, and light on keyboards. I did play some organ, as on songs Mama Roux and Danse Kalinda, but stuck mostly to guitar. Steve Mann and Ernest McLean also played guitar on the session. On some songs we used two basses ( Harold Battiste and Bob West ), and our percussionist, Didimus, also doubled up on a bunch more instruments with the rest of the cats.

We were looking for an unusual, textured sound, and the cats nailed it. Naturally, we wanted the album to sell, but we weren’t into bending our music to fit somebody’s idea of what the market was about. First and foremost, we were into it for the music. This attitude isn’t often appreciated by record companies. To give you a for instance, at one point later on, I was doing a session for Bobby Darin when Ahmet Ertegun walked into the studio looking for me. ‘ Why did you give me this shit? How can we market this boogaloo crap? ‘ He was stuck with a record that was done on the sly, and he was acting as if he wouldn’t release it.

But we was of the mind that a hip record might sell if it was pitched the right way. The way we was looking at music was that it was circular in its groove, with no corners. That was what the old-time hipsters had meant by hip — something that hadn’t been squared off to fit into some kind of computerized, market-ized nightmare. In any event, Ahmet must have sensed something happening. We made five more albums for Atlantic before the deal fell through. Our theme song of that time, the first cut on the album, was Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya-Ya. It framed a mental picture of an imaginary New Orleans, and put our main character, Dr.John, out front and center. “

you could download THE WTUL NEW WAVE HOUR * 1978

|July 22, 2010 | Found Sounds, New Orleans Music, Philosophy, You Could Download

 

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I recently managed to get my hands on a tape of an old college radio show – 72 minutes of music and DJ banter – from WTUL, which is the station at Tulane University in New Orleans. I edited and smoothed things out a little bit, but what you have here is pretty much what went out over the airwaves on November 29th, 1978.

There’s a lot of music that you’ll be familiar with if you’re a fan of early punk and postpunk, but there are also some obscure treats – The Normals are widely considered, along with the Red Rockers ( who came along in 1979 ), to be the most happening early New Orleans punk band, and you can listen here to Almost Ready, the ultra-rare, ultra-great 45 that was their only release.

It’s easy to forget what an exciting time this was, with fresh records arriving weekly from the UK and underground American bands starting to pop up all over the place. When the DJ ( Jay Hollingsworth wrote in to identify him as John Guarnieri, who went on to work at IRS Records ) says, casually, that Captain Beefheart is playing at Tipitina’s that night, I think, God, I’d give my right arm to be able to travel through time and see that show. Anyway, you can download the whole thing here.

THE WTUL NEW WAVE HOUR * 1978

01. DJ : Elvis Costello – ” Emotional Fascism “

02. Elvis Costello : Tiny Steps

03. The Jam : I Need You

04. Sid Vicious : My Way

05. WTUL Kraftwerk promo : ” Your FM alternative .. in stereo “

06. The Stranglers : No More Heroes

07. The Normals : Almost Ready

08. The Damned : New Rose

09. The Adverts : Gary Gilmore’s Eyes

10. DJ : playlist – station ID – import album hour – Johnny Thunders

11. New York Dolls : Who Are The Mystery Girls?

12. DEVO : Social Fools

13. The New Hearts : Plain Jane

14. The Radiators : Million Dollar Hero

15. Chelsea : High Rise Living

16. Blunt Instrument : No Excuse

17. DJ : playlist – station ID – import album hour – ” riding streetcars at strange hours ”

18. Jilted John : Jilted John

19. Split Enz : Crosswords

20. Ultravox : The Quiet Man

21. Brian Eno : Alternative 3

22. Brian Eno : Strange Light – DJ : station ID – import album hour – playlist – Captain Beefheart at Tipitina’s – The Shirts

23. The Shirts – Lonely Android

24. The Clash : Tommy Gun

25.The Boomtown Rats : Like Clockwork

26. Peter Hammill : Pushing 30

27. DJ : playlist – station ID – import album hour – musical entertainment at The Contemporary Arts Center