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The Fendermen – Mule Skinner Blues

Gosh. This is going well.

Los Tigres Del Norte – Contrabando Y Traicion Now on: Dennis Brown – Wolf & Leopards

How many of the posters here keep listening notes on the records they follow? I'm guessing a fair few, and not just those of us who do so for professional reasons. If so, why do you keep them? And what sort of thing do you capture?

Hi, I'm trying to think of examples of labels from the postwar period that worked at cataloguing / selling American folk / vernacular styles. By this I mean recordings of post war or surviving musicians playing in styles rooted in the profusion of pre-war southern styles (although not necessarily just replicating them), rather than the music industry genres that were their immediate descendants. Basically, labels that specialise or specialised in the likes of country blues, bluegrass, old timey, cajun, tejano, etc. Particularly those focused on capturing some of the diversity and weirdness that was there, rather than selling products designed for the music industry genres that had arisen. Essentially what I am asking for is labels with an imprint / catalogue / ethos like Arhoolie. That is as opposed to e.g. Chess or Blue Note, which I fully understand are also rooted strongly in pre-war styles (no need to inform me of the fact). Maybe "Arhoolie-type" record labels is a simpler way of putting it. Examples might be: Arhoolie Delmark, and it's blues arm in particular Alligator Fat Possum Rounder Smithsonian (a different thing but from a listeners point of view a similar output) Thank you in advance. I am going through a bit of a moment with this stuff.

Lal & Mike Waterson – Bright Phoebus

It reminds me of early Bobby Bland.

Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls Vin Gordon - African Shores

Some that I don't think have been mentioned yet (not necessarily endorsements): Billy Childs - I've Known Rivers Black Renaissance (Harry Whittaker) - Black Renaissance: Body, Mind and Spirit The various Adderley brothers records with Rick Holmes Cecil Taylor when he mixes it up (e.g. Tzotzil Mummers Tzotzil or Chinampas) Conjure (Kip Hanrahan) Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed Eddie Harris, talking shit! Haida and Paul Horn - Haida and Paul Horn (spoken word in both human and orca) High Risk (Virginia Rubino; Cyndy Mason Fitzpatrick; Bobi Jackson; Sandy Ajida; Judy Grahn) - High Risk Jack Kerouac featuring Al Cohn and Zoot Sims - Blues and Haikus La Mont Zeno Theatre - Black Fairy Maria Grand's recent records Michel Roques - Trio Chorus Miguel Zenon - Identities Are Changeable Mtume - Rebirth Cycle Nathaniel Mackey and the Creaking Breeze Ensemble - Fugitive Equation Warren Smith and the Composer's Workshop Ensemble - Cricket Song-Poem

I mean. There is a reason I was listening to it.

Koerner, Ray & Glover – Blues, Rags And Hollers One of my favourites. The second side in particular.

It was a charming part of a really quite bleak period, wasn't it?

Seems to me that he was justly censured; a cynical attempt by his record label to portray him as a victim was correctly called out; but I didn't think that his behaviour crossed lines into really really cancellable territory. I can't say I was impressed by those text messages or by his behaviour, but I am not sure that it would stop me listening to his music?

Saw Kahil El'Zabar tonight, with Corey Wilkes, Alexander Harding and a cellist I don't know, at the Union Chapel. Thanks go to @mjazzg for pointing it out to me. A good gig. Not quite on the level with past times I have seen him, but still strong. I had the pleasure of taking my dad (80) and aunt (82), both of whom really loved it. Tomorrow taking my wife to see Nat Birchall at Cafe OTO.

RIP. I probably am among the biggest Sanborn fans here. He did some great recorde. This is sad news.

It is at the end of Archway road. The Highgate end. No doubt Archway will soon get it's own Villáge treatment. It is founded by Lee Dorian, of Napalm Death and Cathedral fame. He has had a label of that name for ages and they opened the shop around the pandemic. It's generally him or his wife in there. Surprisingly little metal, although well chosen. It has a good jazz selection with interesting stuff - far more interesting than many jazz shops' own selections. Prices are okay. Barnes cost £15, which is roughly what I'd expect these days.

Emile Barnes A recent acquisition for me, a surprise find from metal record shop Rise Above in Archway / Highgate.

Henry Thomas – Texas Worried Blues As close to a top 20 record as I'd ever want to pick.

Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe

Earl Hines – Quintessential Recording Session

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

Paul Rutherford - The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie

That was one of my favourites back in the day, and is going on now.

Too young. A big shock. A hell of a legacy, but a complicated one. His work really draws into perspective the cultural shifts that have taken place in the last couple of decades.