028 ALTER.NATiON: weekly favtraX 30-03-2019

ALTER.NATiON #28

Control Top, Perry Farrell, Ty Segall, White Denim, Sebadoh, Garcia Peoples, Joshua Redman Quartet, Sarah Tandy, Facs, Ela Orleans, Christelle Bofale, Billie Eilish
 
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Control Top - Covert Contracts
“Everything looks like a commercial/ It’s a brand to be controversial!” is Carter’s rallying cry on the album’s rampaging title track. From there she traces the oblivious steps toward fascism: “First step is to give up your attention/ Next step is to give up your intention/ Then one day you’re locked up for dissension/ It was all built into the invention.” Paired with surging pogo bass, an intense 4/4 backbeat, and a flurry of violent guitar stabs, it’ll raise your pulse...

Alt-rock godfather who wears many hats: promoter, provocateur, and indelible frontman (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Satellite Party). 
Perry Farrell - Pirate Punk Politician
...Considering that the latest Jane’s Addiction album was released in 2011, and Farrell has not released solo material since 2001, “Pirate Punk Politician” should be a return to form. It’s more Porno For Pyros with its spiraling riffs and almost experimental nature, but if the title was any indication, this song is bizarre from start to finish. While a fast tempo, scratchy guitar and thrusting bass line are present, weirdly melodic synths cut in during the second verse. This only creates uneasy tension that’s alleviated by the sheer ruckus of the chorus...

California-based garage rock revivalist known for his prolific discography and his accurate recreations of '60s lo-fi. 

Ty Segall - Cherry Red from Deforming Lobes

...2019's Deforming Lobes was recorded during two January 2018 shows in Los Angeles, and the song list curiously omits any tunes from Freedom's Goblin. What it does deliver is Segall and his band laying into their music as if their lives depended on it. Deforming Lobes documents a tight, heavyweight rock & roll band turning up the amps and wailing hard for the fans, and if it doesn't have a subtle bone in its body, it proves beyond a doubt that Segall and his bandmates are still committed to the sweaty, passionate glory of The Rock Show. On Deforming Lobes, Segall is backed by the Freedom Band, the same core of musicians who helped him make Freedom's Goblin, and they sound like a force to be reckoned with. Emmett Kelly is a great guitar foil for Segall, matching and complementing the noisy majesty of Segall's soloing, Ben Boye's fuzzy keyboards lend force and color to the arrangements, and bassist Mikal Cronin and drummer Charles Moothart hit with the impact of a runaway cement truck...

Freewheeling indie rock combo from Austin, Texas whose exuberant, hard-hitting sound has charted in the U.S. and U.K. 

White Denim - Reversed Mirror from Side Effects

Though they are from Austin, and started out as a punk power trio, much of White Denim's ninth studio album, 2019's Side Effects, sounds like it could have been recorded by a psychedelic rock band in Los Angeles in 1969. That fuzz-tone, reverb, and echo-pedal sound is pretty much the aesthetic bandleaders James Petralli (vocals, guitars) and Steve Terebecki (bass) have been aiming for since at least 2011's D. While the lineup has gone through changes over the years (there are even at least three different drummers credited here), White Denim have remained remarkably consistent...

The quintessential lo-fi band of the '90s, centered around the neurotic observational genius of depressive-obsessive Lou Barlow. 

Sebadoh - Stunned

At the top of the month, Sebadoh announced their first new album in six years, Act Surprised, which sees Lou Barlow reconnecting with Jason Loewenstein and Bob D’Amico after a move back to Northampton, MA... This one builds on their panicked energy. “The incessant bombardment of the senses with media and advertising can lead to a kind of self-defensive paralysis,” the band’s Loewenstein said about the song in a press release. “I am completely stunned at this point.”

New Jersey band who took notes from a canon of classic psychedelic searchers to develop their jammy, cosmic rock sound. 

Garcia Peoples - High Noon Violence from Natural Facts

Arriving a scant eight months after their debut, Natural Facts already presents a distinct evolution in Garcia Peoples' exploratory guitar rock. With a name that references the late Jerry Garcia, the New Jersey combo honored -- to a certain degree -- the immutable jam band spirit of their forebears on 2018's sunny Cosmic Cash, which introduced audiences not already in the know to the crafty twin-guitar stylings of Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki. Rather than retreading the tired tropes so diligently trotted out each summer by countless noodling festival bands, Garcia Peoples filtered their more obvious influences (Grateful Dead, NRBQ, Little Feat, Phish) through a contemporary indie rock aesthetic that celebrated the present over the past. They accomplish this to an even greater extent on their 2019 follow-up, Natural Facts... The earthy, Dead-like harmonies of standout "High Noon Violence" are paired with a snaky riff that could have come straight from Television's Marquee Moon. 

An adventurous, highly lauded jazz tenor saxophonist who initially rose to prominence after winning the 1991 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. 

Joshua Redman Quartet - Stagger Bear from Come What May

The band at the core of saxophonist Joshua Redman's warmly engaging 2019 album, Come What May, has played together in various configurations for almost twenty years. Featured are pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson... "Stagger Bear" with its bluesy piano brings to mind the cabaret swagger of Bob Fosse.

“The music developed gradually through many years playing on London’s underground music scene, and immersing myself in the myriad musical languages surrounding me. In the album I’m seeking to find a continuum between the jazz music which I grew up listening to, and the multi-faceted, genre-melting sounds of present day London”, she says.

Sarah Tandy - Infection In The Sentence

...Tandy makes her solo debut here, with a concise (six tracks, 34 minutes) album featuring Sheila Maurice Grey of Neríja and Kokoroko on trumpet, Binker Golding of Binker & Moses on saxophone, Mutale Chashi of Kokoroko on bass, and Femi Koleoso of Ezra Collective (and a fellow member of Camilla George’s band) on drums. The music lays hard bop-inspired horn interplay over shuffling, soulful rhythms, occasionally settling down for an introspective ballad. On the album’s second half, Tandy switches from acoustic to electric piano. The closing “Snake In The Grass” is a thick funk groove with Tandy laying down dense organ as Grey takes a fierce, barbed solo.

Dark, propulsive post-punk trio formed from the ashes of Chicago's Disappears. 

Facs - Anti-Body from Lifelike

...we get FACS – a Chicago based post-punk band in the same vein as Disappears. Their 2018 debut album Negative Houses was well-received, and they’ve returned with its proper follow-up Lifelike almost exactly a year later... Despite the influences, they aren’t as derivative like Preoccupations, a good band for sure, but one that continuously struggles with the direction they want to go. FACS lean more experimental, there are so little pop attributes on Lifelike... 

Dreamy, sample-based experimental indie pop with ghostly echoes of '50s and '60s pop. 

Ela Orleans - In the Night from Movies for Ears

Polish-born musician Ela Orleans has released over a dozen LPs and EPs of haunting, exotic lo-fi pop since the late 2000s. For the most part, these recordings were put out by tiny labels in scant editions, and received nowhere as near as much attention as they deserved. Movies for Ears (itself originally a limited CD-R, later remastered by James Plotkin and given a wide release by Night School in 2019)... All of these songs are fascinating, wonderful, and unique, and they're just a small selection of Orleans' extensive catalog. Very much a collection of lost gems, Movies for Ears is an excellent introduction to a sorely underrated artist.

Christelle Bofale - U Ouchea

Christelle Bofale has a voice that could move mountains, that could change the tides. But the music that the Austin-based artist makes isn’t necessarily interested in such drastic overtures. It moves slow and circular, content to unfold incrementally... It glides along, guided by watery guitars and a pitter-patter of drums that sound like rain on a windowpane. It shifts from sunshine to twilight and back again. Bofale’s voice lilts into the backdrop, twisting up in it like a spell. It’s impressionistic and warm but steadfastly firm. She sings about figments of imagination and fears that glow and tightroping acrobats. It conjures up a world that feels at once peaceful and strained, at ease but at odds

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter who blends ethereal indie electro-pop with dark thematic tones. 

Billie Eilish - bad guy from When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

On her big-league debut, Billie Eilish makes a bold entrance into the mainstream, leaving the fringes behind to embrace her role as an anti-pop star for the disaffected Gen Z masses. With a youthful, hybrid blend that incorporates elements of indie electronic, pop, and hip-hop (assisted by brother Finneas O'Connell), When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? captures the late-2010s zeitgeist by throwing conventional boundaries to the wind and fully committing to its genre-blurring self. Like Lorde's devilish little sister, Eilish delivers her confessional lyrics in hushed bursts of breath, at times dirge-like in their sedateness and otherwise intensely threatening in their creepiness.

Control Top, Perry Farrell, Ty Segall, White Denim, Sebadoh, Garcia Peoples, Joshua Redman Quartet, Sarah Tandy, Facs, Ela Orleans, Christelle Bofale, Billie Eilish

28-03-2019 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1990-1999

28-03-2019 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1990-1999 # The Jeff Healey Band, Johnny Winter, Joanna Connor, Robert Cray, Snooky Pryor, Albert King, Sue Foley, Karen Carroll, Little Mack Simmons, Tommy Castro

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1990-1999

Blind blues-rock guitarist and singer who developed a unique lap-held style of playing. What made Jeff Healey different from other blues-rockers was also what kept some listeners from accepting him as anything other than a novelty: the fact that the blind guitarist played his Fender Stratocaster on his lap, not standing up. With the guitar in his lap, Healey could make unique bends and hammer-ons, making his licks different and more elastic than most of the competition. Unfortunately, his material leaned toward standard AOR blues-rock, which rarely let him cut loose, but when he did, his instrumental prowess could be shocking.
The Jeff Healey Band
Full Circle (Jeff Healey / Joe Rockman / Tom Stephen) 4:13
I Think I Love You Too Much (Mark Knopfler) 6:27
Hell to Pay (Jeff Healey / Joe Rockman / Tom Stephen) 3:54
from Hell To Pay 1990
...Background info: This the band's second album and in my opinon their best. After their moderatly succesful album See The Light the band spent a whole year writing for this album and it shows once you actually heard it.
Best Parts
Obviously the guitar playing drives the album. Jeff's voice is very good and it perfect for the overall sound of the album. Though not paid attention to as much as the guitar the bass and drums do a great job and it can be heard between poweful guitar fills and solos in the more bluesy songs.
Worst parts
There is little not to like about this album. I guess the only bad part is Jeff's Mullet on the front cover...
Overall: This is a great album. A few sort of boring yet still good and solid songs near the end but many power tracks and brilliant guitar work.

An exceptionally talented blues and slide guitarist, beginning in the 1960s and stretching into the 21st century. When Johnny Winter emerged on the national scene in 1969, the hope, particularly in the record business, was that he would become a superstar on the scale of Jimi Hendrix, another blues-based rock guitarist and singer who preceded him by a few years. That never quite happened, but Winter did survive the high expectations of his early admirers to become a mature, respected blues musician with a strong sense of tradition.
Johnny Winter
Illustrated Man (Mary-Ann Brandon / Fred James) 3:40
Let Me In (Bo Diddley / Johnny Winter) 4:13
If You Got a Good Woman (Johnny Winter) 4:24
from Let Me In 1991
Let Me In is a star-studded all-blues set from Johnny Winter, featuring cameos from Dr. John, Albert Collins, and several others. Though the set focuses on blues material, Winters can never leave his rock roots behind -- the sheer volume and pile-driving energy of his performances ensures that. For most of the record, his enthusiasm is contagious, but there are a couple of bland, generic exercises that fail to work up a head of steam...

What sets Joanna Connor apart from the rest of the pack of guitar-playing female blues singers is her skill on the instrument. Even though Connor has become an accomplished singer over time, her first love was guitar playing, and it shows in her live shows and on her recordings.
Joanna Connor
Walking Blues (Robert Johnson) 4:22
Fight (Luther Allison) 3:56
from Fight 1992
To date, Joanna Connor's studio work has not lived up the live-wire energy of her personal performances. Fight takes a major step toward setting this right. This stuff wails, especially Robert Johnson's "Walking Blues" which Connor reinvents courtesy of some stinging slidework. While Connor's lack of dependence on cover material rates bonus points, not all her songs are memorable -- even if the guitar playing is.

027 ALTER.NATiON: weekly favtraX 27-03-2019

ALTER.NATiON #27 

Ibibio Sound Machine, American Football, Andrew Bird, Luther Dickinson, Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, Strand Of Oaks, Bill MacKay, These New Puritans, Apparat, Ritual Howls, Spiral Stairs, Cate Le Bon, Sky Ferreira

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Ibibio Sound Machine - Wanna Come Down from Doko Mien

Ibibio Sound Machine's sophomore album for Merge and third overall finds them building on the more production-savvy post-punk and electro soundclash tenets of 2017's Uyai and combining them with the militant Afrobeat grooves of their 2015 self-titled Soundway debut. Doko Mien reveals Ibibio Sound Machine as a restless outfit. Here, articulating their version of Nigerian-saturated roots Afrobeat, they assimilate and recombine crisp, synthetic, and organic beats, zigzagging Kraftwerk-ian synths, fuzzed-out psych guitars, whomping rubbery basslines, and a driving, punched-up brass and horn section that recalls the Tower of Power Horns as much as it does Fela Kuti's...  muscular horns. "Wanna Come Down" is sung by Williams in her mother's and grandmother's native Ibibio language.

Group made a landmark emo album in the late 90s, then reunited in the mid-2010's to great acclaim. 
American Football - Every Wave to Ever Rise (feat. Elizabeth Powell) from American Football (LP3) 5:54
After releasing their reunion album in 2016, the members of American Football started trading song ideas and demos back and forth and realized their sound had evolved. LP2 came across like a continuation of what they had begun so beautifully on LP1 15 years earlier; LP3 takes that sparse, intricate, and emotional sound and expands it in new and interesting ways. The quartet stretch the songs out, adding long instrumental passages. They add a wider range of instruments to the arrangements -- including vibraphone, bells, keyboards, and vocal choirs on one track -- all of which give the songs a new richly burnished feel. For the first time, they bring in outside vocalists to sing with Mike Kinsella. Land of Talk's Elizabeth Powell adds lovely French backing on the languid "Every Wave to Ever Rise,"...

Violinist, singer, songwriter, and composer known for his eclectic pop-folk style and multi-layered sound. 
Andrew Bird - Sisyphus from My Finest Work Yet
Andrew Bird’s My Finest Work Yet is as much a culmination of his musical storytelling as it is a high mark of his 20-plus year career—you can walk away with a different favorite song with each listen. The album, Bird’s 12th solo outing, is replete with superlatives, containing some of his most exquisite melodies and finest wordplay, as well as his lushest, warmest sound yet. The latter is a pinnacle achieved through live vocals, mainly from Bird and Madison Cunningham, and recording sessions sans headphones or separations...

A son of Memphis royalty, a talented guitarist with an eclectic range of influences, and one of the North Mississippi All-Stars. / All-star roots collective formed by Luther Dickinson with vocalists Amy Helm, the Como Mamas, Amy Lavere, Sharde Thomas, and Allison Russell. 

Luther Dickinson, Sisters of the Strawberry Moon - Sing to Me 

Sing to Me / Amy Helm  from Solstice

Aside from co-leading the North Mississippi Allstars with his brother Cody, Luther Dickinson has spearheaded a number of solo projects drenched in American roots music since 2009. Solstice is a kind of companion to 2012's Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here by the Wandering -- Dickinson's first project with female vocalists...  Rev. Charles Hodges' organ is the prime accompanist on Helm's "Sing to Me." It flows through her sweet take on rural soul, while clarinet and slide guitar add jazz and blues for good measure...

Philly-based singer/songwriter Tim Showalter specializes in bold and anthemic indie-Americana that draws from classic rock and folk. 
Strand of Oaks - Forever Chords from Eraserland
"The scene isn't my scene anymore" croons Tim Showalter on Eraserland's inaugural track and lead single "Weird Ways." It's a sentiment that anybody with a rearview mirror can relate to, and as inward-looking as his Strand of Oaks project has been over the last decade, Showalter has rarely sounded as self-referential as he does on the band's seventh full-length effort... The nearly ten-minute, atmosphere-drenched penultimate cut "Forever Chords" -- the wordless, ambient, and even longer closer feels a tad excessive -- sums things up most succinctly: "If you believe you can be loved/You'll outlive your past/And you hope it never ends.

An acclaimed guitarist/composer/improviser whose music ranges freely across experimental folk, rock, and avant-garde scenes. 
Bill MacKay - Dragon Country from Fountain Fire
Fountain Fire is the true follow-up to 2017's fine Esker, Bill MacKay's debut long-player for Drag City. "True" in that the guitarist and producer cut and released SpiderBeetleBee -- his second effort with guitarist Ryley Walker -- that same year. Like Esker, Fountain Fire was recorded completely solo with MacKay playing guitars, piano, organ, bass, percussion, and requinto, and singing on a pair of cuts. Musically, this eight-song set travels in a variety of directions simultaneously. Opening single "Pre-California" is an overdubbed exercise in layered solo guitar(s) work with distorted, warm electric strumming, gently reverbed single-string picking -- in a modal scale that resembles surf music if it originated in North Africa -- and multivalent slides adorning its margins... It all culminates in "Dragon Country," the set's longest and most odyssey-like track. Sharded, rhythmically strummed acoustic guitars are played in a folk style that recalls Davy Graham's fluctuating minor-chord improvisations and are woven into a seemingly liquid brew of Dick Dale-esque electric fingerpicking, dreamy slide, Eastern modalities, and stacked, staggered overdubs. Though it's over six minutes in length, it feels like it flits by in an instant...

U.K. art-rock band led by twin brothers Jack and George Barnett who fuse together post-punk, electronica, and neo-classical. 
These New Puritans - Infinity Vibraphones from Inside the Rose
Since debuting with the distressed post-punk of 2008's Beat Pyramid, These New Puritans have made a tradition out of reinvention, approaching composition from surprising new angles and channeling their innate sense of drama into each new evolution. The project of twin brothers Jack and George Barnett, the group were still in their teens when they began releasing music, yet they effused ambition and taste well beyond their years. That ambition remains in play on Inside the Rose, the band's fourth full-length release. As with its predecessor, 2013's symphonic Field of Reeds, Inside the Rose is high on grandeur, contains no guitars, and barely resembles a rock album in any traditional sense. While that album was based in a largely organic neoclassical world of chamber ensembles, voices, pianos, and percussion, the nine tracks featured here fuse an array of synthetic tones and treatments to their acoustic brethren, coming off like an intriguing hybrid of late-period Scott Walker and the Blue Nile...

German electronic musician whose ambitious, emotive output ranges from glitchy techno to exquisitely orchestrated experimental pop. 
Apparat - Brandenburg from LP5
After Moderat announced their indefinite hiatus in 2017, Sascha Ring went back to his solo career as Apparat. LP5 is the follow-up to 2011's The Devil's Walk, Ring's most song-oriented solo work, rather than the last album to bear Apparat's name, 2013's more challenging Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre). The title of LP5 ostensibly nods to Autechre's 1998 full-length, which it doesn't resemble in the slightest. Ring has stated that his experience with Moderat, which ended up touring major venues, inspired him to think big with his own music, but here he refrains from writing quirky, crowd-pleasing electro-pop tunes like Moderat's "Bad Kingdom." Like all of Apparat's albums since 2003's Duplex, LP5 is filled with live instrumentation as well as Ring's fragile, yearning vocals, which are refreshingly not over-emotive...

Detroit trio incorporating aspects of post-punk, industrial, and sound design into a dark, doomy sound. 
Ritual Howls - Alone Together from Rendered Armor
As their album titles suggest, textures are vitally important to Ritual Howls' music. Turkish Leather telegraphed the rough sensuality and dusty drama of its songs, while Into the Water hinted at the cold depths of their third album. Rendered Armor's title is just as evocative of the streamlined, hard-edged sound of the trio's fourth full-length... "Alone Together" begins the album by paring their music down to the bare essentials of a spiky drum pattern and a twangy guitar riff...

Indie rock solo project from Pavement guitarist and songwriter Scott Kannberg. 
Spiral Stairs - Swampland from We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized
We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized, the third album Scott Kannberg has released under the name Spiral Stairs, opens with a big, bouncy beat that practically invites the appearance of a horn section. The surprise arrives when Spiral Stairs actually adds those horns, the first of many bold detours on We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized. Keep in mind those detours are contextual. An Ameri-Indie stalwart since he co-anchored Pavement, Spiral Stairs usually deals with the barbed, brittle sounds of classic underground rock, but he abandons that aesthetic here, trafficking in grand gestures and bold colors... Perhaps Kannberg can be a little on the nose, writing verses about investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on "Swampland," but that only adds to the charm of the album: after years of championing obscurity, there's something bracing and endearing about hearing Spiral Stairs aim squarely for the gut.

Welsh indie singer/songwriter who produced for Deerhunter and other peers in addition to crafting her own intricate solo albums. 
Cate Le Bon - Daylight Matters
Cate Le Bon writes songs in the absurdist tradition, as both as an escape and a mirror to the world. Her music is elliptical and sparse, using familiar sounds—chiming electric guitar, saxophone—to create her own alien landscape. “Daylight Matters,” the swooning first single from her new album Reward, isn’t so much a reinvention as it is a grand unveiling. It’s more Young Americans than Low, all glowing and swaggering and lovesick. While her recent music, solo and as part of the post-punk duo DRINKS, has seemed cloaked in mystery, she’s now more direct as an arranger and writer, breaking down in the bridge and layering her voice into a pleading choir of “c’mon”s. “A day in the life, arranging the chairs,” she sings coolly, as if gesturing toward her handiwork. “And I’m never gonna live it again.” She’s spent so long building her own world; it looks even stranger and more beautiful with the sun shining in.

Precocious synth pop singer/songwriter who built up a huge online following. 
Sky Ferreira - Downhill Lullaby
After six years, Sky Ferreira is back with new music. She’s shared “Downhill Lullaby,” her first single since Night Time, My Time. The track is slated to appear on that album’s follow-up, Masochism. In Pitchfork’s new digital cover story, Ferreira told writer Camille Dodero that she co-produced the track with “Twin Peaks” music supervisor Dean Hurley. It features strings by Danish violinist Nils Gröndahl.

 Ibibio Sound Machine, American Football, Andrew Bird, Luther Dickinson, Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, Strand Of Oaks, Bill MacKay, These New Puritans, Apparat, Ritual Howls, Spiral Stairs, Cate Le Bon, Sky Ferreira

MiXTAPE: 100 from bestof / #1961 / part two PnM.MiX

Peggy Lee

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O T H E R  H U N D R E D  S O N G S

Peggy Lee - The Train Blues from Blues Cross Country

James Brown - Night Train from Night Train

Nina Simone - Work Song from Forbidden Fruit

Aretha Franklin with The Ray Bryant Combo - Today I Sing the Blues from Aretha

B.B. King - You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now from My Kind of Blues

Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is a Busy Man from Slim's Shout
John Lee Hooker - Taxi Driver from John Lee Hooker Sings the Blues

Elmore James - I Can't Hold out (Talk to Me Baby) from The Chess Story Vol.9 1960-1961

Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland Special from Slim's Shout

B.B. King - My Own Fault aka It's My Fault from My Kind of Blues

Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying from The Sky Is Crying

Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster from The Chess Story Vol.9 1960-1961

Lightning Hopkins - Down Baby from Sings the Blues

Freddie King - Texas Oil from Let's Hide Away and Dance Away

Jimmy Reed - Tell Me You Love Me from Jimmy Reed (Live at Carnegie Hall)

Slim Harpo - Tip On In from Sings Raining in My Heart

John Lee Hooker - I'm Mad Again from The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker

Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble from Ride with Me, Baby: The Singles 1952-1961

Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved a Woman from Freddy King Sings

Jimmy Reed - I'm Mr Luck from Jimmy Reed (Live at Carnegie Hall)

Roosevelt Sykes - I Hate To Be Alone from The Honeydripper

Memphis Slim - New Key to the Highway from U.S.A.

Jimmy Reed - Boogie in the Dark from Live At Carnegie Hall

Chuck Berry - Come On from The Chess Story Vol.9 1960-1961

Jerry Lee Lewis - What'd I Say from Jerry Lee's Greatest!

Laurel Aitken - Low Down Dirty Girl from Jamaica Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961

Chuck Berry - Thirteen Question Method from New Juke Box Hits

Owen Gray - Get Drunk from Jamaica Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961

The Carter Bros - Voodoo Cha Cha form Mighty Instrumentals R&B-Style 1959-1960-1961

Etta James - Seven Day Fool from The Second Time Around

Nina Simone - Gin House Blues from Forbidden Fruit

Junior Parker - Foxy Devil from Seven Days

The Mar-Keys - Sack O' Woe from Last Night!

Oscar Brown Jr. - Work Song from Sin & Soul… And Then Some

Carmen McRae - Strange Fruit from Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics

Bobby Bland - St. James Infirmary from Two Steps From The Blues

Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright from The Cobra and Chief Recordings

April Stevens - Teach Me Tiger! from Teach Me Tiger!

Elvis Presley - I Want You with Me from Something for Everybody

Bo Diddley - Aztec fom Bo Diddley Is a Lover

The Ventures - Orange Fire from  The Colorful Ventures

Del Shannon - Runaway from Runaway With Del Shannon

Dion - The Wanderer from Runaround Sue

Ray Martin and His Orchestra - Shadrack from Dynamica

Elvis Presley - Gently from Something for Everybody

Roy Orbison - Pretty One from Lonely and Blue

The Ventures - Bluer than Blue from The Colorful Ventures

Duane Eddy - Pepe from The 1961 British Hit Parade Part 1 Vol. 1

Wanda Jackson - Lonely Weekends from Right Or Wrong

The Shadows - Shadoogie from The Shadows 1st Album

The Ventures - Torquay from The Ventures

The String-A-Longs - Wheels from Hit Parade 1961

Mary Wells - Please Forgive Me from Bye Bye Baby, I Don't Want to Take a Chance

Sam Cooke - You're Always On My Mind from My Kind of Blues

The Shirelles - What's Mine Is Yours from Tonight's the Night

Nat "King" Cole - Illusion from The Touch of Your Lips

Oscar Brown Jr. - Hazel's Hips from Sin & Soul… And Then Some

Frank Sinatra - Falling In Love With Love from Swing Along With Me

Ray Charles - Moanin' from Genius + Soul = Jazz

The Mar-Keys - Sticks & Stones from Last Night!

Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper  from The Honeydripper

Wes Montgomery - Movin' Along from Movin' Along

Grant Green - A Wee Bit O'Green from Grant's First Stand

Jimmy Smith - Motorin' Along from Home Cookin'

Ray Charles - Dawn Ray from The Genius After Hours

The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson - On Green Dolphin Sreet from The Swingin's Mutual

Yusef Lateef - The Centaur and the Phoenix from The Centaur and the Phoenix

Paul Desmond - I've Got You Under My Skin from Desmond Blue

Zoot Sims - Jive At Five from Down Home

The George Shearing Quintet - Lullaby of Birdland from The Swingin's Mutual

Mark Murphy - Twisted from Rah!

Ella Fitzgerald - 'Round Midnight from Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

The Latin Jazz Quintet + Eric Dolphy - Spring Is Here from Caribé

Wes Montgomery - I'm Just A Lucky So And So  from So Much Guitar!

Miles Davis Quintet - Something I Dreamed Last Night from Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet

Milt Jackson, John Coltrane - The Late Late Blues from Bags & Trane

Yusef Lateef - Blues For The Orient from Eastern Sounds

Baby Face Willette - Face to Face from Face to Face

Grant Green - No. 1 Green Street from Green Street

João Gilberto - Samba da Minha Terra from João Gilberto

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jazz-A-Samba from Afro-Jaws

Chico Hamilton Quintet - Trio from The Chico Hamilton Special

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Tin Tin Deo from Afro-Jaws

Marty Manning - You Stepped Out Of A Dream from The Twilight Zone

Miles Davis Quintet - When I Fall In Love from Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet

The Three Suns - Smoke from Fever & Smoke

Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto - Contrabajeando from Piazzolla interpreta a Piazzolla

The Three Suns - Fever from Fever & Smoke

The Outlaws - Crazy Drums from Dream of the West

Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line from Jump Up Calypso

Dave 'Baby' Cortez - Dave's Special from The Happy Organ and Other Great Recordings

Henry Mancini - Something for the Cat from Breakfast at Tiffany's

Harry Belafonte - Monkey from Jump Up Calypso

Caterina Valente - Taboo from Superfonics

Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger - The Elfin Knight from Classic Scots Ballads

Arthur Lyman - Havah Nagilah from Yellow Bird

Patsy Cline - South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) from Showcase

Edith Piaf - Les ballets du coeurs from Edith Piaf 1957/1961

Nino Rota - Finale from La dolce vita

Jacques Loussier - Finale from Jacques Loussier Trio: Play Bach N° 3

La dolce vita