Focus Flow

Westminster

Waterfall (demo)

'The Village Out: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes' is out on 2xCD and digital on September 24, 2021, and available for pre-order now.

The Village Out West celebrates the underappreciated bastion of the Folk Revival that emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s, a counterpoint to the seminal New York City scene that has dominated the historical narrative. Compiled from a vast array of recordings by autodidact recording engineer Alan Oakes, the two-CD set features legendary names like Hank Bradley, Rev. Gary Davis, Larry Hanks, Mississippi Fred McDowell, New Lost City Ramblers, and Doc Watson, as well as unsung heroes of the local California communities that turned the region into fertile ground for American music. This music triumphantly transcends the passage of the decades with its luminous and passionate presence, making the case for California as a crucial hotbed for some of the most impressive and diverse folk music of the 20th century.

The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes

Kathy & Carol - Swallow Song

moog me up

See carolinedavison.substack.com

These recordings are part of Caroline Davison's blog, where you can hear her sing the first verse of a song from each of the forty days that Vaughan Williams collected them, between December 1903 and January 1905. They are supported by info on the original singers, why and how Vaughan Williams came to meet them, background on the songs and the stories they tell.

See carolinedavison.substack.com

16 April 1904 The Jolly Herring

A piano and vocal version of Soul in the Sunshine

Soul In The Sunshine Piano

This track is inspired by the work of Etta James. written by myself.

LeftWithTheBlues

Decomposition playing live at the Borough Exchange, Hope Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

Recorded in 1987.

Decomposition - Live at the Borough Exchange

Lost Girls

Peach Sky

It's Fine

Kathleen's Song

the restless dreams of youth 
by Tamar Berk

Tamar Berk - vocals, guitars, piano, wurlitzer, harpsichord, synth, organ, bass
Matt Walker - drums
Chris Davis - lead guitar (Skipping the cracks, Socrates & Me, Better off Meditating, Heavy & Abusive, Red Ball, In the Wild)
Matt Thomson - bass (Skipping the Cracks, Outdated)

Mixed by Sean O'Keefe
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering

The Restless Dreams of Youth

Heavy & Abusive

Planets

Neptune

Boxing Day or, The New Robin Hood

Insomuch being a treatise on the deplorable state of the current sovereign state of England wheresomuch the common folk are in great despair owing to the malfeasance of the Government Ministers who indulge in oppressive Governance and are much driven to the seven deadly sins and greatly imbued with greed, corruption, vanity, misappropriation of the public purse and  cruelly mistreat and subject the fair citizens of this once fine country to grave injustices. May God forgive them for their sins.

Boxing Day Or The New Robin Hood

The May Geslins

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