(for the record, this photo from the lp jacket is of Cannonball Adderley, not Nat Adderley, Jr.)
On this show, I play a song by Nat Adderley, Jr. called “The Price You Got to Pay to be Free”. The track is the title song from a 1970 album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, a group headlined [...]
On this show I play a song recorded by Gene Ammons on his 1974 album Brasswind. The song is called “Cantaro”, and it was written by David Axelrod, who also arranged and conducted the album. Gene Ammons was a veteran tenor sax player who got his start playing in the ’40s and played with Billy [...]
My podcast was featured in an article in Playlist magazine, which has resulted in some increased traffic to the site. If you discovered this podcast from the article, welcome! Michael Gowan gave a great overview of the technology, so by now, you probably know that you can subscribe to the vinyl podcast and have all [...]
On this show, I play a track called “Six Day War” by a British group called Colonel Bagshot, recorded for the Cadet Concept label in 1971. Cadet Concept was an imprint of the Chess and Cadet label created by Marshall Chess, son of Leonard Chess and nephew of Phil Chess, the founders of the label. [...]
On this show, I play about the creepiest folk song I’ve ever heard. The track is “Winter’s Going” recorded by Bonnie Dobson on her 1969 self-titled album. Actually, folk purists might argue that the track doesn’t really fall into the genre, as it’s fairly heavily
orchestrated, but Bonnie Dobson has a strong folk pedigree, with plenty [...]