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"

Underappreciated Music, the links to the sounds and the words about them, October/November 2017 updated

Rest in Glory: Jon Hendricks, 1921-2017

The (frequently) 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: Nightly Music

Brian Arnold: The Boston Pops: Christmas Festival; Holiday Music and more; Hallowe'en music and more One; Two; Three

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Booker Ervin: Tex Book Tenor 

Alice Chang: Hiroyuki Sawano: "Sylvalum (night)"


Sean Coleman: Pretenders II 

David Cramner: The Flaming Lips: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits; Link Wray and His WrayMen: "Rumble"

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock'n'Roll; Janet Jackson in concert, 1990; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert, 1990;
Olivia Newton-John: Totally Hot; Juliana Hatfield in concert, 2017; Paul Weller in concert, 2017

Jerry House: Big Mama Thornton; Hymn Time; Music from the Past; Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band
Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, et al.: "Hound Dog"/"Down Home Shakedown"


Jackie Kashian: Ryan Conner on Smashing Pumpkins

George Kelley: Greatest Hits of the '70s; The Bodyguard: The Musical; La Bouche: Sweet Dreams

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Moanin'"

Jon Hendricks and Company: "In Walked Bud"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Joe Willisms: "Everyday I Have the Blues"


Evan Lewis: Shary Richards & co.: The Sounds of the Silly Surfers/The Sounds of the Weird-Ohs

Marc Maron: Kim Deal

Anna-Claire M: Aural Image #42 (a Spotify playlist)

Todd Mason: spirits; a Whole Lot of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (and Bavan)

Joe Megalos notes: Sun Ra on BandCamp

Becky O'Brien: Moana S/T: "There You Are"; The Walking Dead S/T; Stranger Things season 2 S/T; American Made S/T; Flatliners (2017) S/T 

Andrew Orley: Nobody's Listening

Dizzy Gillespie's centenary year: 2017: To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life (1990)


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: The Gospel Whiskey Runners: Hold On; Dan Auerbach: Waiting on a Song

Tom Reney: George Avakian: 1919-2017

W. Royal Stokes: Best Jazz CDs of 2016 

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"

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"

Saturday Music Club on Thursday: Sinister

The Roches: "Missing"

Annie Humphrey: "They Found Her"


Trusty: "Honey Mustard" (hit this text link to go directly to the song)


X: "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene"


Smart Went Crazy: "Sugar in Your Gas Tank"


Combustible Edison: "Pink Victim"


Billie Holiday: "Gloomy Sunday"


The Staple Singers: "Wish I Had Answered"


The Weavers: "Sinner Man"


The Jaynetts: "Sally Go 'Round the Roses"


Joan Armatrading: "Call Me Names"

Not solely spoken words: strands joined in/by rap and since: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

from art-song recitative through gospel singing speech and on through other spoken rhythms to music explorations and traditions, a slice through some of the strands that were drawn upon when rap began to take its own shape in the latest 1960s/earliest 1970s in the work of Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets...and then beyond.






Marti Newland (with Artis Wodehouse): Rain Song (composed by Will Marion Cook, 1912)


Rev. W. A. Donaldson and Congregation: "Baptizing Scene"
Marion Williams: "Didn't It Rain"


The Memphis Jug Band: "On the Road Again"


Chris Bouchillon: "Talking Blues"
Woody Guthrie: "Talking Blues"

Pete Seeger (of the Almanac Singers): "Talking Union"

King Pleasure (with Blossom Dearie and James Moody et al.): "Moody's Mood for Love"
Langston Hughes: "The Weary Blues"

Lord Buckley: "The Nazz"
Ken Nordine: "White"

Champion Jack Dupree: "[Going Down to] Big Leg Emma's"
Willie Dixon: "Walking the Blues"


Halim El-Dabh: "Leiyla and the Poet" (1959)

Steve Reich: "It's Gonna Rain" (1965)

The Last Poets: Made in Amerikkka (excerpt) (NSFW language at points)


Gil Scott-Heron: "Brother"

Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Johannesburg" (live, British tv, 1976)

Gil Scott-Heron: "Comment #1 (Who Will Survive in America?)"  (NSFW language at points)

Gil Scott-Heron Band: 1984 German concert

U Roy: "Natty Rebel"


Salt N Pepa: "You Showed Me"


Public Enemy: "She Watch Channel Zero"


Beatnigs (later Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy): "Fight Fire with Fire"

The Go! Team: "Keys to the City" and more

Ana Tijoux and Shadia Mansour: "Somos Sur"


Zedbazi: "Zamin Safe"

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"