John Fahey – Popular Songs Of Christmas & New Year’s: Guitar Instrumentals Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz || Folk, Holiday 1983 Varrick || Includes insert from Rounder Less hauntingly beautiful as his initial Christmas LP, this is still plenty enjoyable. Heck, by 1983, Fahey had released enough Xmas records that I quite literally can’t keep…
Category: Folk
Barbara and Ernie – Prelude To… (1971) Day 11 of FV’s 12 Days of Xmas
Barbara & Ernie – Prelude To… Original release 1971 Atlantic Reissue, 2013 Real Gone Music I almost headed off to bed without posting Day 11 of this 12 Days of Xmas thing. It’s only the fifth day of the year and I’m already exhausted with stress. Too tired and strapped for time to give this…
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music (1967 Swallow Records)
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music 1967 Swallow Records – LP-6011 Vinyl transcription in 24-bit 192 khz || File sets in mp3, FLAC and 24-bit FLAC I had this record ready to post here long before there was a Cat 4 hurricane bearing down on the bayou. I’ve been rewatching some Les Blank films…
The Grateful Dead – The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/9/80 & 10/10/80
Grateful Dead – The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/9/80 & 10/10/80 Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | Art scans at 300 dpi Grateful Dead Productions / Rhino Records – R1-585396 This is a gorgeous collection of acoustic music from The Grateful Dead. The Dead were doing “unplugged” sets before anybody called them that, but in…
Ned Doheny – Hard Candy (1976) (2014 Be With Records 180g reissue)
Ned Doheny – Hard Candy Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | FLAC | Art scans at 300 dpi 1.4801GB (24/192) | 714MB (24/96) + 238 MB (16/44) | 2014 Be With Records BEWITH003LP | Genre: Soul, Funk, Rock I’m not sure that the release of Ned Doheny’s 1973 album sold enough copies to inculcate anything…
The Humblebums – First Collection of Merry Melodies (1969) (Transatlantic TRA-186)
The Humblebums – First Collection of Merry Melodies Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | Art scans at 300 dpi 1969 Transatlantic Records TRA 186 | Genre: Folk The other week, I ran a Patreon poll for the site’s handful of patrons to ask what genre the next post should be about, and “folk” won the…