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Songs From Before

Autumn Music 1

Evening Hymns - 'Spectral Dusk' - August 2012.
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EVENING  HYMNS - ARROWS (Spectral Dusk)

Dear Rome

King Midas

The first single from M. Ward's forthcoming album, A Wasteland Companion, out April 10.
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Primitive Girl

John Legend and The Roots perform Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" for Springsteen Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

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John Legend ft. The Roots - "Dancing In The Dark" (Bruce Springsteen Cover)

Lee HAZLEWOOD:  I Just Learned To Run

From the new album, There's No Leaving Now. Out on June 12th. 

There's No Leaving Now

1904

The Tallest Man On Earth - "1904"

Bill Fay "Be At Peace With Yourself" from the album, Life Is People. Out August 21 on Dead Oceans. 

Life Is People

Be At Peace With Yourself

Bill Fay - "Be At Peace With Yourself"

Opening de Philip Glass

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You and Jake

Evening Hymns - You and Jake

Ray Stinnett - A Fire Somewhere
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A hippie-fied, soul-rock, folk-rock, psych-rock gem lost in the vaults for four decades, A Fire Somewhere by Ray Stinnett (best known as a member of '60s outfit Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs) sounds as fresh as the day it was cut, and comes with extensive liner-notes detailing the fascinating life of a little-documented '60s rock voyager.

Born in Memphis in 1944, Ray Stinnett got his first guitar, aged 12, from Nathan Novak's pawn shop, where Elvis got his first guitar. Heading back down Beale Street afterwards, the family stopped at a light and a huge pink Cadillac pulled up beside them. "And oh my god -- it was Elvis!" recalls Ray, "So I held up my guitar and shouted, 'Hey Elvis!' and he looks over and says, "Hey cat." Ray told his father he was going to work hard and make a gold record... just like Elvis.

Before long, he was putting the plan into action, first in teen group Johnny and the Electros, then as a duo with drummer Jerry Patterson, playing nightly at honkytonks, roadhouses, beer joints, nightclubs and the many Memphis recording studios. He achieved his promise with Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs -- Wooly Bully was the number one selling record of 1965. At 21, Stinnett was living a life of world tours and screaming fans -- the whole mania. The wheels fell off a year later, amid managerial disputes. The four Pharaohs (including Ray) parted ways with Sam, wrote two stinging rebukes ("The Hanging" and "You Sure Have Changed") and released them as The Violations. Ray became more and more of a prolific writer.

By 1967, the summer of love, Ray left for Haight Ashbury in San Francisco with his wife and young son, taking up residence at the legendary Morning Star Ranch, where Ray focused on finding his true voice. Returning to Memphis a year later, Ray formed a working friendship with Booker T Jones, who produced Ray's unreleased Sun Tree at Pepper West album. Eventually, when Jones moved to Malibu and took a contract with A&M, he lined up a deal for his old friend.

Still working in Memphis with (old) friends Jerry Paterson and Mike Plunk on bass, along with Booker T. and co-mixer/engineer Richard Rosebrough (Chris Bell, Big Star), Ray channelled his experiences in the pop machine, at Morningstar and beyond into the songs that would become A Fire Somewhere. It funnelled the vast experiences of this pop star, cosmic traveller and grounded, loving father.

The songs contained the fried country twang and boogie-woogie grooves of his hometown and of his youth, but were also threaded through with the new psychedelia -- shreds of distorted guitar, looping experimental jams and acoustic renditions. "Art is a reflection of life," says Ray of the making of A Fire Somewhere, "and my life was full of reflection at this time." And it's perhaps exactly that fact which kept this incredible record unreleased for all these years.

By summer, the album was ready for release. By winter, it remained on the shelf. A&M reassured Ray that they were going to make him a superstar. Ray had already done that; he just wanted the songs released. Soon, they hit an impasse. Ray took his tapes and songs and went on with his life. In the end, A&M's loss -- is our gain. Listen, and enjoy, this message from another time, and from an old head on young shoulders. "It's a torch that's been carried forty years through the desert, waiting for this moment to arrive," says Ray.

+ Original album Executive Producer: Booker T. Jones
+ Original art intended for 1971 album release, seen for the first time
+ All songs previously unreleased
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Ray Stinnett - Honey Suckle Song

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Oskar Schuster - Sneeuwland

AMAZING SONG BY AFGAN SINGER AHMAD ZAHIR !

- 11 Ин чи ишкест дар дил дорам ман

Another song taken from the forthcoming new album December Wine (4 Track Tapes)

All is lost

"Honey" from TORRES' self-titled debut album

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Honey

The Killers - Runaways (RAC Mix)

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// March 19th, 2013

Bona Dish were a scratchy pop punk group from Hertfordshire villages, brought together by their love of the Velvets, Supremes and each other. They were cool, handsome and gorgeous. The songs are simple but at the same time complex. The two girls, two boy’s line-up added a tension that was both sexual and musically fragile. You felt it might all fall apart any second but it rarely did. 

After their "cassette in a tube" ploy worked for John Peel play, the band released a cassette on InPhaze and disbanded not long after. Collected here is a rediscovered gem showcasing the zest and spontaneity that gripped the UK DiY scene of the time, standing up to their contemporaries like Television Personalities, The Homosexuals and Marine Girls.

This release marks the first vinyl and cd release for BonaDish, their complete recorded output compiled and newly mastered.