Underappreciated Music: January 2018

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...

Patti Abbott: Louis Prima and Keely Smith: "Just a Gigolo"; "I Ain't Got Nobody"

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Pete (La Roca) Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath

Sean Coleman: Gordon Lightfoot: Old Dan's Records; Men at Work: Cargo; Stealers Wheel: Stealers Wheel

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Diane Birch: "The End";  Albums of the Year: 1978-2017; First Aid Kit: Ruins; Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain; Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel

Jerry House: Theodore Bikel; Hymn Time; Music from the Past

George Kelley: Growing Up Too Fast: The Girl Group Anthology; Barb Jungr: Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday; Mark E. Smith/The Fall

Evan Lewis: Louie Fest 2003

Marc Maron: Rita Moreno; Don Was

Todd Mason: Some Sounds of DC; Some More Sounds of DC; Some Further Sounds of DC

Laura Nakatsuka: Blue Heron: "Ecce, quod natura"


Becky O'Brien: Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia: Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany's;  from The Sword in the Stone: "A Most Befuddling Thing"

Andrew Orley: Mark E. Smith

Dave Pell's Jazz Octet: A Pell of a Time (RCA 1957)

• • Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
  • Bass – Tom Kelly
  • Coordinator – Shorty Rogers
  • Drums – Mel Lewis
  • Guitar – Tommy Tedesco
  • Piano – Marty Paich, Paul Moer (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
  • Tenor Saxophone, Leader – Dave Pell
  • Trombone – Bobby Burgess*, Ray Sims (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
  • Trumpet – Jack Sheldon

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: Brubeck Quartet/Tony Bennett Combo: The White House Sessions, Live 1962

Prashant Trikannad: Chandrashekhar Phanse, Joslyn Braganza +: "Come September"

Love is a battlefield? Saturday Music Club

In memory of 
Margaret A. Roche 
















Annie Ross: "Love for Sale"


Lahna Turner: "Recycle" (mildly NSFW)


Kasey Lansdale: "Sorry Ain't Enough"


Smart Went Crazy: "Sugar in Your Gas Tank" (mildly NSFW)


Maggie and Terre Roche: "Jill of All Trades"


The Scarlet Furies: "Heart Shaped Box"


Michigan Mafia String Band: "Spooky"


Doc Watson: "Sitting on Top of the World"


Muddy Waters Band: "Don't Go No Farther"


Helen Shapiro: "Walk on By"


The Glenn Miller Orchestra: "At Last"

Rob Wasserman, 1952-2016: Saturday Music Club in memoriam

Rob Wasserman with the David Grisman Quartet: "14 Miles to Barstow"


Rob Wasserman Band: "Is Anyone There?"


Night Music, season 2, episode 15: Rob Wasserman & Bob Weir; The Modern Jazz Quartet; Nana Vasconcelos and John Lurie; Screamin' Jay Hawkins; Bongwater & the Fabulous Pussywillows; Artis the Spoon Man; archival footage of Dorothy Donegan, George Gershwin et al.

Rob Wasserman and Cheryl Bentyne: "Angel Eyes"


Rob Wasserman: "Ode to Casals"

Some singers, mostly the songs of others (some more covers): Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Miriam Makeba: "Come to Glory"


Fontella Bass: "Talking About Freedom"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Jackie"


Monday Michiru: "Zanzibar"


Olivia Ong: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Melody Gardot: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: "Your Long Journey"


Boa: "Duvet"


The Go! Team: "Catch Me on the Rebound"


The Go! Team: "Grip Like a Vice"

some Beatling; Saturday Music Club in Eastern Standard Time

Beatles covers. 

Fanny: "Hey Bulldog"

Monsoon: "Tomorrow Never Knows"


The Bangles/The Three O'Clock/the Rainy Day band et al.: "Taxman"

The Bangles: "All Together Now"

Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "A Hard Day's Night"


Mary McCaslin: "Things We Said Today"


Emmylou Harris: "For No One"


Nina Simone: "Revolution"


Esther Phillips: "And I Love Him"


Aretha Franklin: "Eleanor Rigby"

In the studio, brilliantly

St Vincent: "Dig a Pony"


The Breeders: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"


Nanci Griffith: "Things We Said Today"


The Womenfolk: "Yesterday"

Bobbie Gentry: "Norwegian Wood" (sung in Japanese)

The Swingle Singers: "I Am the Walrus"


The Carpenters: "Help!" (in concert)


Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Dear Prudence"


The Rolling Stones: "I Wanna Be Your Man"

The Rolling Stones on The Mike Douglas Show, 1964

Saturday Music Club: a quick tour

"End of the Rope" is the token Hallowe'en song for this week!










Harry Partch: Music Studio  (1958)

(Part 2)

Deb Fox (and Ron Pellegrino): "Excerpt from Study 12"


Macedonian polyphony


Light in Babylon: "Kipur"


Pentangle: "Hunting Song"


The Tuttles with A.J. Lee: "Sugar Moon"


The Renaissance Bluegrass Band: "End of the Rope"


Chris Connor: "A Taste of Honey"


Sheila Jordan: "Willow Weep for Me"

"Eight Miles High": Saturday Music Club on Monday

The Byrds: "Eight Miles High" (perhaps their single best recording, a wonderful fusion of their folk, jazz, Indian raga, and other influences) 

The Byrds in 1966:
Gene Clark, primary songwriter, vocals, misc. instruments
Roger "Jim" McGuinn, lead guitar, vocals
David Crosby, rhythm guitar,  vocals
Chris Hillman, bass guitar, vocals
Michael Clarke, drums


Gene Clark:


Acoustic Desert Rose Band:


Hüsker Dü:


Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: (incomplete)


Maura and Pete Kennedy:


The Ventures:


Rufus Harley Band:


The Soulful Strings:


The Bob Thiele New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo:


Index:


Roger McGuinn and Crowded House:


The Byrds at the Fillmore East closure concert, 1970: "Jesus is Just Alright" and "8MH":

(music begins at 2:23)

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: "and when you're dead, you're done..."

Dedicated to the memory of Shirley Mason Gauthier, and to the generosity of her family and mine.

B. B. King: "Let the Good Times Roll"


Johnny Gimble and Marc O'Connor (with Brent Mason among others): "Fiddlin' Around"


Jerome Cooper: [title, if given, unknown]


Patty Waters: "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" recorded for the late Bernard Stollman's ESP-Disk Records, 1965


Lew Soloff and the Harmonie Ensemble New York: "Solea"


Guy Carawan (with Marc Gunther, eventually): "Old Molly Hare" and others


Miriam Brickman: "The White Peacock"


Marty Napoleon, Bill Crow, Ray Mosca: "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"


Doc Watson: "Amazing Grace"

Saturday Music Club on Mother's Day: Jimi Hendrix covers, of course

The Lovell Sisters: "Bleeding Heart"; "Folsom Prison Blues"


Bandits (Jasmin Tabatabai): "All Along the Watchtower"


The Gil Evans Orchestra: "Crosstown Traffic"


Turtle Island Quartet: "Hey, Joe"


Kronos Quartet: "Purple Haze"


Kalei Gamiao, Aldrine Guerrero, Taimane Gardner, Ryo Kyas: "Little Wing"


Kevin Kmetz: "Purple Haze"

Juliette Valduriez: "Voodoo Child"

Jess Greenberg: "All Along the Watchtower"


Orianthi: "Voodoo Child"

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: Skinning the Ticket

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage: "Muleskinner Blues"

Dolly Parton on The Porter Wagoner Show

The Beatles: "Ticket to Ride"


Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins:


Husker Du:


The Fendermen:


The Carpenters:

The Carpenters and Andy Williams interweave "Ticket to Ride" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"

Jimmie Rodgers:


Alma Cogan: 

A cover version by Strangely Attractive

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys:

Monroe studio recording, 1940 

The Grateful Dudes:

Saturday Music Club: more bluegrass and adjacent

The Bankesters: "Gypsy Jubilee"


Della Mae: "Letter from Down the Road"


Emmylou Harris and Mary Black: "The Green Rolling Hills"


Darol Anger and the Furies: "Evening Prayer Blues"


Sharon Gilchrist, Bryn Davies and Tony Rice (3/4 of the Rowan/Rice Quartet): "Shady Grove"


The Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Leaving Eden"


The Claire Lynch Band: "Buttermilk Road; The Arbours"


Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: "Snowdrop"


Donald Kauli'a: "Waimanalo Blues" (aka "Nanakuli Blues")


Fairport Convention (2007 Reunion/Augmented Version); "Si Tu Dois Partir"


Doc Watson and Clarence Tom Ashley: "Maggie Walker Blues"

from the folk/bluegrass/new acoustic/country nexus: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

Alison Brown, Sam Bush, Bobby Hicks: "Wayfaring Stranger"


Beauty and the Beard: "That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On"


Darol Anger and the Furies: "Evening Prayer Blues"


David Amram and Friends: "Mama Don't Allow"


Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, with Dolly Parton: "Heartbreaker's Alibi"


Sierra Hull & Highway 111: "Bombshell"


Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "Never Say Never"

Lansdale with John Carter Cash and their band

Kami Thompson Band: "Your Big Secret"

Thompson acoustic and better-recorded: "Gotta Hold On"

Saturday Music Club: some old favorites

Judy Dyble, polyinstrumentalist and singer, Fairport Convention

Anonymous 4: "Antiphon: O Rubor Sanguinis" (composed by Hildegard von Bingen)

A Christmas song (not yet discovered, not properly credited)

Kate Royal: "Ah, Love but a Day" (composed by Amy Beach)

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations for flute and strings, Op. 80 (Carol Wincenc, flute; Jonathan Swartz and Erica Kiesewetter, violins, Nancy Buck, viola, Jesus Castro-Balbi, cello)

Billie Holiday: "The Sunny Side of the Street"

"Fine and Mellow" (The Sound of Jazz performance, 1957)

Sarah Vaughan: "The Sweetest Sounds"

Aretha Franklin, Robert Flack, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee: An Ellington Medley

Buffy Sainte-Marie: "Cod'ine"

"Piney Wood Hills"

Wanda Jackson: "Hardheaded Woman"

"Tore Down"; "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"
Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

The Springfields: "Little Boat"

"Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

Fairport Convention: "Morning Glory"

"One Sure Thing" (live at the BBC 1968); the album version
Fairport Convention: "Reno, Nevada"; Mimi and Richard Fariña: "Reno, Nevada"

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: "Goodbye Anne"

"The Buffalo Girls/Puncheon Floor"

Emmylou Harris: "Two More Bottles of Wine"/"Ooh, Las Vegas"


Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch: "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby"

Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" 

"Old Ship of Zion"

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some bluegrass and related music (with a Beatles outbreak)

Alison Krauss & Union Station with Sierra Hull: "Cluck Old Hen"


Doc Watson and Richard Watson: "Milk Cow Blues"


Elizabeth Cotten: "Washington Blues" and "A Jig"
 (and just about to begin "Spanish Flang Dang")


Liko Martin, George Kahumoku Jr., Sterling Seaton, Peter deAquino & Garrett Probst: "Nanakuli Blues" (aka "Waimanalo Blues")


June Carter, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash: "Blue Eyes"


Alison Krauss, Mark O'Connor and company: "I Will"


Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "A Hard Day's Night"


Kami Thompson: "Don't Bother Me" (as she begins to play and sing at full voice a minute in, the sound quality is better)


The Swingle Singers: "Blackbird/I Will"

Saturday Music Club: some music programming on US Public Broadcasting: television

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service (network, founded 1970):

Austin City Limits: 
"Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys"

"Neko Case"


Soundstage:
"The World of John Hammond" featuring Bob Dylan


From Jump Street:
"Willie Dixon"


Great Performances: 
"Leonard Bernstein"


Blugrass Underground:
"The Civil Wars"


APT, American Public Television (syndicator; previously APS, the American Program Service, and the legatee of EEN, the Eastern Educational Network, founded 1961)

Sessions at West 54th:
"Joe Jackson"

Joe Jackson - Sessions at West 54th (1997) by DemonPreyer
"Diana Krall"

"Sonic Youth"


Music Voyager:
"Israel: Voices from the Desert"


Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis:
"Showcase: Season 1"



NETA, the National Educational Telecommunications Association (syndicator; previously SECA, founded 1967)

Jubilee:
"Sierra Hull and Highway 111"


Backstage Pass:
"Orquesta Ritmo"



MHz Worldview (network, evolving essentially in 2001 out of Northern Virginia Educational Television)

BB's Presents: The Best of the Blues:
"Michael Burks"


NET, National Educational Television (network, founded 1952)

Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger
"Mimi and Richard Fariña"

"June Carter and Johnny Cash"

Saturday Music Club: Five Guys Named Bill Evans...and everyone digs Bill Evanses...

1. The George Russell Smalltet featuring pianist Bill Evans: "Concerto for Billy the Kid"


The Bill Evans Trio, 1965, on the BBC series Jazz 625


2. Yusef Lateef (previously William "Bill" Evans): "The Golden Flute"


The Yusef Lateef Quartet: "In the Evening"


Yusef Lateef: "Eboness"


3. Bill Evans, electric bassist: "Agua"


4. Bill Evans, saxophonist: "Watcher"


Bill Evans Soulgrass: "Dragonfly"


5. Bill Evans, banjoist (and akontingist!): "Si Jan Jan Si Jamboukan" & "Alinaume"


Bill Evans and Megan Lynch and Co.: "The Distance Between Two Points"

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some Hawaiian folk music and extentions

After last week's Hawaiian pop/rock, some of the more traditional/rooted music from the archipelago:

Peter Moon: "Papalina Lahilahi"


Gabby Pahinui and Peter Moon: "Waialae"


The Makaha Sons of Niihau:


Raiatea Helm, Amy Hanaiali'i, Napua Makua

Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom and Willie K: Ku'u Pilikua

The Brothers Cazimero: Mapuna Ka Hala O Kailua

for St. Patrick's: Kalei Gamiao


The Aloha Bluegrass Band and Keoki Kahumoku Jr.:

And, forthcoming in May on US public stations and particularly World TV affiliates:
Season 2 of Pacific Heartbeat, with three of the four episodes devoted to music:

Saturday Music Club: some music documentaries

Lennie Tristano


John Cage


Doc Watson


The Go! Team


women in jazz


US folk music

(part two, in small increments beginning with this one--copyright challenge on the full episode, though pt. 3 is available in one chunk)

Miriam Makeba
 

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some chamber music

Wu Man with the Kronos Quartet: "Mehbooba Mehbooba" (Rahul Dev Buhrman)


The Eroica Trio: "Trio No. 1" (Joaquin Turina) at the Tango Evolution concert


The Han Piano Trio: "Oblivion" (Astor Piazzolla)


The Turtle Island Sting Quartet: "All Along the Watchtower" (Robert Zimmerman)


The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio: "Sketch" (John Lewis)


The Max Roach Double Quartet (The Max Roach Quartet and the Uptown String Quartet): "Bright Moments" (Max Roach)


The Dave Grisman Quintet: "Dawg's Rag" (Dave Grisman)


Wu Man with the Kronos Quartet: "Nursery" (Terry Riley)

Saturday Music Club: some further sounds of DC

The Washington Bach Consort (Scott Dettra and J. Reilly Lewis)

Coral Cantigas


The Orioles (formed in Balto, but based in DC)


Roy Clark


Elizabeth Cotten


John Fahey


Blue Rose


Roberta Flack


Eva Cassidy


Ron Holloway & the Gil Scott-Heron band


The Young Senators


The Pietasters


Government Issue


Minor Threat


Scream


Shudder to Think


The Nation of Ulysses


Burning Airlines


Chemlab


Kokayi


Mýa


previously: Some Sounds of DC
Some More Sounds of DC