Thursday, May 28, 2009

Orchestra Baobab Live

Something about good African guitar players just kills me... add in a heavy Cuban a influence and the result is undeniable:


Sunday, May 24, 2009

The kings of western swing- Bob Wills and Spade Cooley

and for a different kind of swing... one of the more hotly contested musical titles of this century :)
Also two amazing steel players, Leon McAuliffe with Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys and Joaquin Murphey with the Spade Cooley group (btw- Bob Wills is still king!)


Duke Ellington- C Jam Blues 1942

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Camaron- Volando Voy

My friend Chirss Sutherland just released a beautiful album called "Worried Love." He does a great cover of "Volando Voy" along with his own inspired originals in English and Spanish. Here is the original by gypsy flamenco singer Camaron De la Isla: