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10 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere
(see Comments, below, for helpful info about downloading)
Fame Studios piano hero Barry Beckett died last week at the age of 66. Lucky for us, Beckett found himself smack dab in the middle of countless critical sessions over the course of his five-decade career in music. Beckett's contributions to recordings by Aretha, Dylan, Percy Sledge and many others are legendary, but the Miner will forever appreciate him for producing Eddie Hinton's Swamp Soul classic "Very Extremely Dangerous," which Capricorn released in 1978—and then promptly went out of business.
Capricorn's demise was just one of a long string of hard-luck happenings that doomed Hinton, himself a vital Muscle Shoals sideman, who toiled on the back line for years before finally stepping out with his Beckett-produced debut. (It was Hinton who had convinced Beckett to come to Muscle Shoals in the first place, despite his friend's hankering to head to Nashville.) Though he had no chance in hell to live as long, Hinton would've turned 65 two days ago.
Eddie Never Failed to Leave It All on the Pavement
Eddie Hinton ~ "Very Extremely Dangerous"
(Blog: My Blog Too)
Throat Singing, Animal Imitating, Jews Harping
Sarymai Urchimaev ~ "Altaian"
(Blog: Chenehuby)
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From the album: Jelmeigen Sagal (mp3)
Peyote Popsters
Pop Music Team ~ "Society Is a Shit"
(Blog: Música Ácida)
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From the album: Oda a la Chica Fresa (mp3)
[7 more very extremely wonderful records, after the jump]
Called By Some "the Sly & the Family Stone of Salsa"
Azuquita Y Su Orquesta Melao ~ "Pura Salsa"
(Blog: Hippy Djkit)
Brit Improv Cats Pay Homage
John Stevens ~ "Chemistry"
(Blog: Inconstant Sol)
The Label Called Them "Girls"?
Various ~ "Sanctified Country Girls"
(Blog: Wrath of the Grapevine)
Boozy Bollywood Spy Epic
Laxmikant Pyarelal ~ "Chailla Babu" (OST)
(Blog: Music From the Third Floor)
From the album: Yaar Dildar Tujhe Kaisa Chahiye (mp3)
Her Debut at 11
Bjork Gudmundsdottir ~ "Bjork"
(Blog: Never Get Out of the Boat)
[For individual MP3 tracks, see this previous post from Lukas.]
You Don't Get to Hear a Psaltery Every Day
Dorothy Carter ~ "Troubadour"
(Blog: Mutant Sounds)
From the album: Shirt of Lace (mp3)
Almost as good as Ralph Peer's Bristol Sessions in '27
Various ~ The St. James Sessions
(Blog: Lynn Point Records)
[Many wonderful pages to click on to fully plumb this treasure trove. Click on the "Hear the songs" image to go to the MP3s.]
Listen for music from these and other incredible finds on
Give the Drummer Some, Fridays on WFMU, 9 to Noon (ET).
Check out every installment of Mining the Audio Motherlode
A nice eclectic collection this time around.
Here's my two to add:
Avante solo guitar masters
http://luckypsychichut.blogspot.com/2009/06/bailey-frith-fitzgerald-reichel.html
Holger Czukay
http://glowingraw.blogspot.com/2009/04/holger-czukay-canaxis-5-1969.html
Posted by: Icastico | June 17, 2009 at 12:50 PM
A brief note about Mining the Audio Motherlode: The main focus here will be on
posts of rare and out-of-print recordings, but the blogs themselves are responsible
for the content they are providing.
A few helpful words about the downloads:
Follow the links provided to blog pages offering the downloads. Look for the download link on the page. (Occasionally, the link is listed in the Comments section. Also, if the original download link is no longer active, check further down in the string of comments; a new download link may be posted there.)
Some downloads deposit a folder on your desktop; others leave an rar. file, which needs to be opened using special software. This software is FREE and available online. (If you use a Mac, I highly recommend UnRarx.)
Some blogs provide passwords, which then must be entered when opening the rar. file. The password is typically listed right next to the original download link.
Be sure to search the archived pages at each individual blogs to find more musical gems. Also, check the blog rolls at each blog for leads to other great blogs.
Searching for a specific artist or album? Use Google's BlogSearch or the terrific music blog search engine Captain Crawl.
Posted by: Doug Schulkind | June 17, 2009 at 02:46 PM
I don't want to sound like I've sour grapes here, but that's my recording of the Dorothy Carter album, my crappy picture of the cover, and it appeared on my blog long before Mutant Sounds snagged it: http://playitagainmax.blogspot.com/search?q=dorothy+carter. This is the second time you've linked to someone who took one of my posts. I'm starting to feel dissed.
Posted by: Max | June 22, 2009 at 04:26 PM