may 22 playlist:

the deep dark woods - sugar mama (the place i left behind)
brinsley schwarz - one more day (silver pistol)
blue rodeo - one more night (the things we left behind)
dawes - that western skyline (north hills)
peter b's looners - if you wanna be happy (the fleetwood mac family album)
jackie mittoo - ram jam (champion in the arena 1976-1977)
rod stewart - i'd rather go blind (alternate version) (the rod stewart sessions 1971-1998)
o.v. wright - i'd rather be blind, cripple and crazy (god blessed our love)
bobby "blue" bland - i wouldn't treat a dog (the way you treated me) (dreamer)
herb ellis - sugar hill stomp (roll call)
dick hyman - the 3rd man theme & "danger" theme (the man from o.r.g.a.n.)
kevin ayers - shouting in a bucket blues (june 1, 1974)
zz top - miller's farm (chrome, smoke & bbq)
the doors - the wasp (texas radio and the big beat) (l.a. woman)

sigh...love ya, ray

playlist for the organ grinder proudly presents: heavenly harpsichords on may 15th:
the bonzo dog doo-dah band - music for head ballet (gorilla)
the left banke - walk away renee (there's gonna be a storm: the complete recordings, 1966-69)
belle & sebastian - the model (fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant)
the kinks - too much on my mind (face to face)
scott walker - always coming back to you (scott)
love - the castle (da capo)
dmitry kouzov & peter laul - viola da gamba in d major, wq. 137, h. 559 - adagio ma non tanto (carl philipp emanuel bach: viola da gamba sonatas)
skip sempe - william byrd: pavane & galliard à 6 in c major; pavane (virginals and consorts)
the amazing blondel - dolor dulcis (sweet sorrow) (england)
duncan browne - dwarf in a tree (a cautionary tale) (give me take you)
donovan - hampstead incident (mellow yellow)
jeff beck group - love is blue (truth)
don angle - minor drag (harpsichord magic)
artie shaw - summit ridge drive (the complete gramercy five sessions)
the beau brummels - magic hollow (triangle)
the beach boys - when i grow up (to be a man) (today!)
wizzard - the carlsberg special (pianos demolished phone 021 373 4472) (wizzard brew)

go forth, young moderns! van dyke parks, who tickles the baroque ivories on magic hollow by the beau brummels, flanked by l-r your humble organ grinder joe hartfeil and friends tori sheldon and joel rosskopf

playlist for may 8th (british blues boom edition):
 
the graham bond organization - wade in the water (the sound of 65)
graham bond with magick - forbidden fruit part 1 (we put our magick on you)
ginger baker's air force - da da man (ginger baker's air force)
stone the crows - mr. wizard (teenage licks)
alexis korner's blues incorporated - skipping (red hot from alex)
chicken shack - diary of your life (accept)
john mayall & the blues breakers - little girl (bluesbreakers with eric clapton)
manfred mann - what you gonna do? (the five faces of manfred mann)
keef hartley band - think it over (halfbreed)
ten years after - i can't keep from crying, sometimes (ten years after)
savoy brown - street corner talking (street corner talking)
howlin' wolf - who's been talking? (the london howlin' wolf sessions)
jimmy page, sonny boy williamson & brian auger - getting out of town (jam session)
yardbirds - ha ha said the clown (ultimate)

the name's bond. graham bond.

i'm terribly sorry for that.

playlist for may 1st:

jimmy mcgriff - mcgriff's house party (mcgriff's house party)
crosby, stills, nash & young - almost cut my hair (deja vu)
dawes - time spent in los angeles (nothing is wrong)
the john henrys - dawson city (white linen)
lou reed - lady day (berlin)
billie holiday - yesterdays (an evening with billie holiday)
mott the hoople - midnight lady (rock and roll queen)
vanilla fudge - bang bang (vanilla fudge)
the shangri-las - right now and not later (the best of the shangri-las)
george jackson - my desires are getting the best of me (cheatin' soul and the southern dream of freedom)
wee willie walker - i ain't gonna cheat on you no more (twin cities funk & soul)
bob seger system - ivory (ramblin' gamblin' man)
sly & the family stone - let me hear it from you (a whole new thing)
the beach boys - surf's up (surf's up)

benmont tench of tom petty & the heartbreakers/mudcrutch fame, guest organ grinder with dawes