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Sleigh Ride Brian Stokes Mitchell with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas

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Music Fridays: Brenda Lee…Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

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Six Days on the Road: Dave Dudley

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Music Fridays: Louis Armstrong

The LP cover art to ‘Louis Armstrong and His Friends’ originally issued in 1970 on Flying Dutchman Record, shown here is the Philips pressing (most likely the possible European version) Towards the end of Armstrong’s career, his doctors had forbidden him from playing his trumpet, but not singing. So in 1970, Armstrong found himself in [...]

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Music Fridays: Caetano Veloso

‘Tropicália’ was a short lived Brazilian movement from the late 1960′s, with one of the main participants being Caetano Veloso. At the time of recording this LP (image above) Veloso was detained under the current decree of the Brazilian military dictatorship’s AI-5 law. Only the vocals were recorded, with accompaniment from fellow Tropicalismo detainee Gilberto Gil [...]

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Music Fridays: Mission of Burma

 There is something about musical ‘missing links’ that music buffs (see High Fidelity) can’t get enough of.  Given half the chance, they will talk your ear off pointing out countless overlooked pioneering musical genres/eras/artists like Nick Drake, Gil Scott Heron, Krautrock, Post-Punk, Ska, CBGBs, Grunge, Detroit Techno, or Northern Soul.  When Seattle group ‘Nirvana’ burst onto the [...]

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Music Fridays: Aaron Copland’s ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’

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Music Fridays: Herbie Hancock – Jazz Fusion Cantelope Island

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Music Friday (Bonus Round) Buckwheat zydeco – Jambalaya French

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Music Fridays: Steely Dan – Lonely Teardrops

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