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: Bessie Smith
Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos
Sean Coleman: Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Bill Crider: Forgotten Music; Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits: Local Charts
Jeff Gemmill: The Staves: If I Was; Top 5s
Jerry House: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Daily Music+; Hymn Time
Randy Johnson: Because I Like Them: Atomic Bitchwax
George Kelley: Mariah Carey: #1 to Infinity
Kate Laity: Rymäkkä: "Bear Feast Polska"
Todd Mason: Free jazz vocalists: Patty Waters, her influences? and successors; the recently departed; Jimi Hendrix covers; some country music
Patrick Murtha; Louis Durey of Les Six; Eric Burdon (of The Animals and War)
Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday
Charlie Ricci: Kent State & the Protest Song; Mark Knopfler; Brandi Carlile: The Firewatcher's Daughter; The Tremeloes: "Here Comes My Baby"; The Black Keys: Turn Blue
A. J. Wright: "Alabama Song" and its history
My mother, Camilla Mason, cofounded a Friends of the Band at Londonderry (NH) Jr High School in 1977, while I attended (and played trombone badly), that has continued over the years (after they added a choir as it became Jr/Senior High School, the org became Friends of Music)...which helped the LHS Marching Band make its way into the Rose Bowl Parades several years running, under the direction of my old music teacher, still at it thirty-plus years later, Andrew Soucy...the below pretty good for a high school band (both a promise and a warning):
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