Wednesday 27 March 2013

 
playlist for march 27th:

the animals - gonna send you back to walker (the animals)
deena webster - the house of the rising sun (tuesday's child)
the four americans - soul food (black beauty & rarities)
booker t. & the mg's - chicken pox (melting pot)
the waterboys - an irish airman foresees his death (an appointment with mr. yeats)
john cale - child's christmas in wales (paris 1919)
procol harum - a christmas camel (a whiter shade of pale)
william whitehead - organ sonata in d, op. 65/6 - chorale: andante sostenuto (mendelssohn: complete organ sonatas)
songs: ohia - this time anything finite at all (impala)
dukes of stratosphear - 25 o'clock (chips from the chocolate fireball)
tony monaco & joey defrancesco - aglio e olio (a new generation)
sly and the family stone - color me true (dance to the music)
jim ford - big mouth usa (the sounds of our time)
brinsley schwarz - ju ju man (silver pistol)
solomon burke - i'm hanging up my heart for you (the best of solomon burke)

the organ in the church of the holy ghost in heidelberg as depicted by the multi-talented felix mendelssohn bartholdy

Wednesday 20 March 2013

playlist for march 20th:

yes - astral traveller (time and a word)
herb ellis - amazing grace (roll call)
wes montgomery trio - missile blues (a dynamic new sound)
melvin rhyne - fried pies (mel's spell)
paolo nutini - coming up easy (sunny side up)
faces - fly in the ointment (ooh la la)
bessie smith - st. louis blues (mama's got the blues)
blackie and the rodeo kings - night's black bridge (let's frolic again)
billy bragg - the warmest room (talking with the taxman about poetry)

the late great mel casting some spells

Wednesday 13 March 2013

playlist for march 13th:

billy preston - slaughter (ultimate collection)
bruut! - c'mon (bruut!)
nat king cole - too little, too late (let's face the music)
jimmy smith - stay loose (stay loose...jimmy smith sings again!)
cameron carpenter - horowitz: variations on a theme from bizet's carmen (revolutionary)
organissimo - doctor funk (dedicated)
georgie fame - orange street (rhythm and blues at the flamingo)
can - mushroom (tago mago)
mushroom - standing alone (early one morning)
ten years after - working on the road (cricklewood green)
the artwoods - a taste of honey (jazz in jeans)
elliott murphy - diamonds by the yard (night lights)

classic snap of ten years after, including the recently departed alvin lee (guitar) and the fab chick
churchill on organ!

Wednesday 6 March 2013


playlist for march 6th:

garth hudson - genetic method (anew) (a canadian celebration of the band)
dr. dog - alaska (we all belong)
harry nilsson - early in the morning (nilsson schmilsson)
the beach boys - wild honey (wild honey)
the beach bums - upholstery (the phantom of the paradise ost)
the dictators - (i live for) cars and girls (go girl crazy!)
jacula - vereficium (in cauda semper stat venenum)
christopher herrick - ciaccona in e minor, buxwv 160 (buxtehude: the complete organ works, vol. 2)
jackie mittoo - in cold blood (champion in the arena 1976-1977)
van der graaf generator - darkness (11-11) (the least we can do is wave to each other)
john mayall & the bluesbreakers - the supernatural (a hard road)
the temptations - the end of our road (solid rock)
"papa" john defrancesco - papa was a rolling stone (a philadelphia story)

the majestic wizard of the lowrey organ, garth hudson