January Music on MLK, Jr. Day and Afterward

Fotheringay, featuring Sandy Denny: "Banks of the Nile" from Fotheringay (Island Records, 1970) 

Brian Arnold: Wonder Woman Season 1 opening credits

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos (occasional)

James Cameron: Sam Moore, RIP: Sam & Dave: "Hold On"; Brenton Wood, RIP: "The Ooogum Boogum Song" and "Gimme Little Sign"; Garth Hudson, RIP: The Band: "Up on Cripple Creek" (The Ed Sullivan Show, 1969); composer and saxophonist Don Nix, RIP: Freddie King: "Going Down"; The Mar-Keys: "Last Night"

Rick Covert: Nina M. DiGregorio; "Comfortably Numb"; Daily Rock History

Pearce Duncan: Richard Delvy: "The Green Slime" (the opening credits theme of MGM's Other 1969 SF movie, aside from 2001)

Jim Fourniadis: Caroline Eyck: Ennio Morricone: "Ecstasy of Gold" (as performed with voice and theremin)

Jeff Gemmill: On Music, Memories and Nostalgia; Lucy Kaplansky: The Lucy Story, 1976-2023 (LucyKaplansky.com, 2024); Sara Bug: "Back in Nashville (Take 2)" (2025); Hardwicke Circus: Cumbria Pizza (Alternative Facts, 2024); Diane Coll: Up From the Mud (CD Baby, 2024); Camille Schmidt: Nude #9 (Six Castle Road, 2025); much more.

Ted Gioia: 6 (of 16) Videos I'm Watching This Week

Michael A. Gonzales: Radiohead: "The National Anthem" (on Later with Jools Holland, 2001)

Jerry House: Sandy Denny; Slim Whitman; Hymn Time [weekly]

Jackie Kashian interviews Allen Strickland Williams about They Might Be Giants, the band

George Kelley: Joni Mitchell: Archives, Volume Four: The Asylum Records Years (1976-80): Dua Lipa and Sabrina Carpenter concert videos; Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield; Decade of Music V.1-3 (Sony, 1992); Lost and Found in the Seventies (Capitol, 2004); Prom Night: This Magic Moment (Time/Life, 2008); A Complete Unknown (2024 film); Joan Osborne: Breakfast in Bed (Time/Life 2007); Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited (2021) and The Double Life of Bob Dylan: 1941-66; The Last Five Years: A Musical

Tom Kraemer: Postmodern Jukebox/Dave Koz, Robyn Adele Anderson, Adam Kubota, Allan Mednard: "Careless Whisper" (with nods to the Police and Paul Desmond)

Kate Laity: Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley: The In Sound From Way Out! (Vanguard, 1966); Witch Songs

Lisa Lapp: Irma Thomas and the Rolling Stones: "Time is On My Side" (New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2 May 2024)

D. F. Lewis: Petersen Quartet: César Franck: String Quartet in D major; BBC Symphony Orchestra: Elliott Carter: Symphonia: "Sum fluxae pretium spei"

Steve Lewis: Marianne Faithful: "As Tears Go By"

Barry N. Malzberg (in 2024): Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti; Bruckner: Symphony No. 6: Frankfort Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach

Todd Mason: "She's Not There": the original record and an array of cover versions; 8 (+1) Examples of Trombonists in Action (for Jackie Kashian and THE DORK FORESTers); Arooj Aftab & Her Band: "Raat Ki Rani", The Late Show (CBS, 10 December 2024); The American Folk Scene ed. David DeTurk & A. Poulin Jr.; Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back transcribed & edited by D.J. Pennebaker et al.; Dangerously Funny [the Smothers Bros.] by David Bianculli

Neeru: Ustad Zakir Hussain (1951-2024)

Harry Shearer: Le Show (weekly)

January/February Underappreciated Music: Links to reviews and performances

Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot Closing Statements (2012)

Cindy Lee Berryhill on Mojo Nixon; Berryhill on Trash Flow Radio on Nixon (about 35 minutes in)

Jim Cameron: Dave "Fathead" Newman:  Davey Blue; Wayne Kramer of the MC5 

Jeff Cantwell: Totally Wired: Machine Music and the Fossils of the Future (on early electronic instruments)

Annette Crossland: Elles Bailey: "Cheats and Liars"

Jeff Gemmill: Emmylou Harris: Thirteen; The Henry Girls: A Time to Grow; The Long Ryders: Native Sons; Maggie Pope: Crow; Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers; Mol Sullivan: Goose; Hayley Reardon: Live at Starseed Studios; The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way; Steve Bergsman: All I Want is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s: AI adventures in reviewing Valerie Carter and the Faragher Brothers: "Never Get Your Love Behind Me": Chat GPT and  Gemini

Ted Gioia: My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (in three parts); Part 2 (in part!); Part 3 (in part!)

Jerry House: Hymn Time

James Kaplan: From 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (via Ted Gioia)

Jackie Kashian: Ian Lockwood on recent/current Pop Icons 

George Kelley: Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark; Rosanne Cash: The Wheel; Girl from the North Country: The Musical; Rock Steady 1971 (a Starbucks album); Daryl Hall and John Oates: Our Kind of Soul; 25 Best Hits of the 1960s [sic]; Oldies but Goodies V. 5 (CD version); Best of the Bubble Gum Years [sic]

Tom Kraemer: John Hall & al.: "Power"

K. A. Laity: "House Music"

Barry N. Malzberg: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti; Bruckner: Symphony No. 6: Frankfort Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach

Todd Mason: 1959 Jazz Albums and the '59 Grammys

Charles Mingus, Abbey Lincoln &...

Thelonious Monk: Rewind and Play (link for beyond US)

Natasha Padilla: Mary Timoney: "Don't Disappear"; Saxsquatch

Wesley Paich: The Kiffness: "Numnum Cat"

James Reasoner:  Antii Martikainen: "Saloon Showdown"

Charlie Ricci: Creedence Clearwater Revival: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; Brinsley Schwarz: Thinking Back: The Anthology 1970-1975; The Saw Doctors and Petula Clark: "Downtown"; J. D. McPherson: Signs and Signifiers; Muireann Bradley: I Kept These Old Blues; People!: I Love You; Billy Joel: Turn the Lights Back On; Arthur Alexander: Lonely Just Like Me; Spacehog: "In the Meantime"; The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen

Melanie Safka and Johnny Cash: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

Richard Williams: Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSIC: for June and July 2019: examples and links to reviews and more

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

A month that has seen among its less dire aspects the remembrance of the first Moon landing...and a fair amount of summer music, and even two bloggers, George Kelley and Jeff Gemmill, taking up Nolan Glasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste...

Patti Abbott: Billy Elliot The Musical, Stratford 2019: 
"Billy Elliot was amazing. An eleven year old boy does every performance (six months, 3-4 times a week) and he was sensational as was the entire production."
And Gigi, the Original Soundtrack:


Brian Arnold: Batman score by Prince Rogers Nelson

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos 

Paul D. Brazill: Elizabeth Everts; Amy Winehouse: "Tears Dry on Their Own"


James T. Cameron: Don Carn and the West Coast Organ Band: Free For All and "Little B's Poem"; Hammond Heroes: '60s R&B Organ Grooves; Long John Baldry with the Beatles, et al.: "I Got My Mojo Workin'":


Alice Chang: Nobuo Uematsu: Final Fantasy X score


Sean Coleman: Joe Robinson in concert; Jimmy Page: Outrider; Wings: Back to the Egg 

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Bruce Springsteen/E Street Band: Live in Philadelphia, 24 September 1999 and 20 Sep 99; Natalie Merchant: Live in Concert, New York City, June 13, 1999; Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis: Beautiful Lie; Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars; various artists: "Up on the Roof" 

Michael A. Gonzales: Benny Carter (soundtrack): "Harlem Wednesday":


Dana Gould: Los Angeles (and West Coast) punk rock, and the Beach Boys and their lovely parents 

Keiko Hassler: The Philadelphia Orchestra & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" (from Samson; G. F. Handel)


Jerry House: Harry Belafonte; Will Holt and Martha Schlamme: A Kurt Weill Cabaret; L'Orchestra Cinematique: "If I Had a Heart"; Music from the Past; Hymn Time 

Jackie Kashian: Lydia Popovich on Dolly Parton; Jeffrey Baldinger on the Beatles; Ebony Jones on Beyonce Knowles

George Kelley: The Beach Boys: 20 Good Vibrations; Brian Eno: "An Ending"; Anthony Tommasini: The Indispensible Composers; Pavarotti; 25 Greatest All Time Summer Songs: The Ultimate Collection; Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars; First Date: The Musical

Tom Kraemer: Joni Mitchell: "Refuge of the Roads":


Kate Laity: Belle and Sebastian: "Funny Little Frog"; The Left Banke: "Walk Away, Renee"'; Johnny Cash: "The Green, Green Grass of Home"

April Landrum: Moonchild: "Too Much to Ask":

and Teena Marie: "Where's California?"


Evan Lewis: Bud Wattles and His Orchestra: Themes from the Hip, and more from the album

Steve and Jonathan Lewis and Michael Shonk: Music I'm Listening To 

Barry Malzberg: Bathtubs over Broadway

Todd Mason: Newish Sounds in Third Stream and Related Music: Saturday Music Club

Aimee Mann & Ted Leo: Ian MacKaye; Jean Grae

Joe Megalos: Sasami: Live on KEXP:


Laura Nakatsuka: Mark Bailey: "Blessed is the Man"; and Cantors of the Holy Cross Chapel at Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology: "Lord of the Powers":


Andrew Orley: João Gilberto: "Holanda" ("Wave"):


Natasha Padilla: Death: Individual Thought Patterns and Scream Bloody Gore; Afiliando Los Cuchillos 

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

James Reasoner: Middle of the Night Music: Brubeck/Desmond/Morello/Wright: "Blue Rondo a la Turk"

Charlie Ricci: Magnificent Desolation--Music for the Moon; Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked; James Hunter: People Gonna Talk; Natalie Cole: Unforgettable...with Love; Alfred E. Neuman: "It's a Gas"; Music in 2019 

Nancy Ryan: New Originals, in concert, 2016 

Andrew Sherman: Pink Floyd: "Moonhead":


Donna Wilson: Jawbox: "Footbinder":


Lyrics and Legends, this episode produced by WHYY-TV, Philadelphia, in 1963 with the University of Pennsylvania and the American Folklore Society for the National Educational Television (NET) network.


Some more songs for the Mooning:
Samuel Hoffman with Harry Revel's Orchestra: Music Out of the Moon 

Dinah Washington: "Destination Moon"


Gil Scott-Heron: "Whitey on the Moon"


George Russell Orchestra featuring Bill Evans: "Waltz from Outer Space"


Brubeck, Desmond, Morello and Wright: "Back to Earth"

Underappreciated Music: May (and a bit of June) 2019: the links to performances and more

Doris Day and friend

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger/poster in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...among those we'll remember: Doris Day, Dr. John (Mac Rebennack), Leon Redbone and Tony Glover...

Don Berryman: John Coltrane: Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos 

Paul D. Brazill: Elizabeth Everts; Shaun Carlyle Rogan

Jim Cameron: Jimmy Ford & Stephen Fulton: Volume II
and Koerner, Ray and Glover: "Honey Bee"


Sean Coleman: Harry Nilsson: Aerial Ballet; Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage; Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Everyone Knows This is Nowhere; Crosby, Stills & Nash 

Jim Freund: Joan Baez and Dar Williams: "The Dangling Conversation"


Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Bruce Springsteen: "Hello Sunshine", "There Goes My Miracle"; Charlie Marie: Charlie Marie; PledgeMusic-funded albums; Molly Tuttle: When You're Ready; Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home 

Ted Gioia: Dr. John Band: "Iko Iko"


Keiko Hassler: West Side Story 1961 film soundtrack cast: "Gee, Officer Krupke!" 


Jerry House: Music from the Past; Hymn Time; Music for Cinco de Mayo

Jackie Kashian: Valerie Tosi on concerts and venues; Ebony Jones on Beyoncé Knowles and her peers

George Kelley: Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Life and Times of the Temptations; The Cher Show; Fun Home: The Musical; Rolling Stone Presents Female Singer-Songwriters; Dear Evan Hansen: The Musical

Kate Laity: Magazine: "Light Pours Out of Me"

Steve and Jonathan Lewis and Michael Shonk: Music I'm Listening To 

Barry Malzberg: Netherlands Bach Society: "Cum Sancto Spiritu" from Mass in B minor BWV 232 and

Zuzana Růžičková and the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerto for Harpsichord and Small Orchestra H 246 (Bohuslav Martinů) and

Radio Kamer Filharmonie: Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musick (Handel)


Todd Mason: Folk-rock with strong jazz flavors: Fairport Convention, The Byrds, Pentangle, Joni Mitchell, Fotheringay, Eclection

Joe Megalos: Bill Callahan: NPR Tiny Desk Concert 
and Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: "Move On Up"

Laura Nakatsuka: Members of the Holy Cross Chapel at the Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology: "Lord of the Powers"

A related recording


Thao Nguyen et al.: Nobody Dies: A Short Film About a Musician, Her Mother and Vietnam
The most amusing moment might be when, after Nguyen has played one of her more alt-country-influenced songs for her extended family, gathered in a house in her mother's home town, they spontaneously are inspired to sing John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to her in response. TM





Natasha Padilla: Gauche 

Charlie Ricci: Boston 

Richard Robinson: The Best of The Motels; Greatest Go-Go's 

Nancy Ryan: Imogen Heap: "Little Bird"

The Howlin' Brothers: 3 Songs from Lost River Sessions


Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California


Doris Day: "Love Me or Leave Me"


Abbe Lane and Tito Puente's Orchestra: "Whatever Lola Wants"


Leon Redbone: "Shine On, Harvest Moon"

April 2019 (Further) Underappreciated Music

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

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos 

Paul D. Brazill: Peter Perrett: "Man of Extremes" and

Scott Walker: "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore"


James Cameron: The Dusko Voykovich Sextet: Swinging Macedonia and
Sharon Tandy and the Fleur de Lys: "Hold On"


Alice Chang: Rosalyn Turek: The Goldberg Variations (1957 recording) (J. S. Bach)


John Clarkson: Big Gold Dreams: A Story of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989

Sean Coleman: Greg Turkington: Neil Hamburger is... Still Dwelling  

Greg Deocampo: Peter Gabriel & Atif Aslam: "Speak (Bol)"


Mario DiMaio: Roseanne Cash: "The Only Thing Worth Fighting For"


Garret Ehrle: Rhiannon Giddens: There is No Other


Christa Faust: Leo Rondeau: "Get On With It"


Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Jade Bird: Jade Bird

Sue Granquist: Haunted Abbey Mythos: The Mountain of Souls

Keiko Hassler: One Direction: "History" 
(KH: this is my daughter's high school class graduation theme)


Jerry House: The Top 20: 1964; Music from the Past; Hymn Time  

David Johnson: Jazz/Rock Fusion Before Davis

George Kelley: Durand Jones and the Indications: American Love Call; The Wrecking Crew: The Wrecking Crew; Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace 

Tom Kraemer: The Fearless Flyers: "The Baal Shem Tov"


Kate Laity: The Fall: "All Leave Cancelled"


Barry Malzberg: Anita O'Day: "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea for Two" (from Jazz on a Summer's Day/live at the Newport Jazz Festival 1958)


Jeri Mason: Versus: Ex Nihilo 

Todd Mason: some songs I enjoy attempting to sing

Laura Nakatsuka: Max Emanuel Cencic and Sonya Yoncheva: "Pur ti Miro" from L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Claudio Monteverdi) and

Dimitrios Fokianos et al.: The Litany of Completion from the Divine Liturgy in Tone One


Andrew Orley: Teenage Fanclub: "Don't Look Back"


Other Lives: "Dust Bowl III"


Natasha Padilla: Starflyer 59: Young in My Head


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: Bambi Lee Savage: Berlin Nashville Express; Jacques Loussier Trio: Play Bach Volume 3

Richard Robinson: Carmell Jones: Business Meetin'; Mosaic Select #2: Carmell Jones


Nancy Ryan: Adrian Belew: (untitled, in concert)


Brad Verter: Anita O'Day and Cal Tjader: "An Occasional Man"


Vox Earworm series of videos

WLIW All Arts music programming streaming