November 30, 2007 – 9:16 pm
Here are a couple original tunes from Madame Pamita that I dig. These are direct MP3 links to media she hosts.
November 30, 2007 – 1:41 pm
The cover page for this 1884 song about a witching and saucy young minx has a great graphic:
November 25, 2007 – 6:46 pm
This site is primarily for my own covers of songs from before the recording era was really underway. The time period is roughly 1800, when American musical identity started to branch off from its foreign roots, to 1927, when the economic and technological conditions created by recording ended the era of participatory music.
The Original [...]
November 25, 2007 – 2:36 am
From the Library of Congress archive of moving pictures, a lady trapeze artist takes it off from high above the stage:
MPEG format, 20 megabytes
Quick Time format, 11 megabytes
November 24, 2007 – 11:35 pm
Musicians must have bios. It is a rule. And if one is good then more is better, so my bio is going to be a bunch of blog posts within a “bio” category. Whenever I write about myself I will put it in this category.
Here is some biographical information: on the day [...]
November 24, 2007 – 11:29 pm
Soup Greens is the name of a musical act and a blog about old music.
The stage act is acoustic guitar instrumentals of American pop music from before the recording era. Here and there the act has singing. The guitars are a 1928 Gibson L3 and an 1890 parlor instrument.
The blog is this [...]