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Terry Waldo - "The Soul Of Ragtime" - Out Today!
Tompkins Square has released music across many genres: Folk, gospel, jazz, blues, old-timey, British pop, American Primitive, Cajun, Greek, singer/songwriters. But this is the first Ragtime album released by the label, from perhaps the most important living artist in the genre, Terry Waldo. Terry's new album The Soul of Ragtime is the culmination of decades of ...
Various Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Work Hard: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man - Clem Garner/Alfred Meng/Earl McCoy; Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic #2) - David McCarn/David McCam; I've Got the Chain Store Blues - Allen Bros; Farmer Is the Man Who Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson; Farmer's Dream - Oscar Ford; When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger - Earl Johnson; Jerry, Go Ile That Car - Harry McClintock/Mac McClintock; Flat Wheel Train Blues, Pt. 1 - Jack Wellman/Red Gay; Flat Wheel Train Blues, Pt. 2 - Jack Wellman/Red Gay; Driving Saw Logs on the Plover - Pierre La Dieu; All Bound Down in Texas - Darby & Tarlton; Poor Boy Long Ways from Home - Buell Kazee; Diamond Joe - Georgia Crackers.
CD2: Play Hard: Work Don't Bother Me - Gid Tanner; Soldier's Joy - North Carolina Hawaiians; Fourth of July at the Country Fair - Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers; McDonald's Farm - Warren Caplinger; Barnyard Frolic - Carolina Ramblers String Band; Home Brew Rag - Cherokee Ramblers; Corn-Shucking Party in Georgia; Beer Party - Charlie Wilson and his Hayloft Gang; Charleston Rag - Aiken County String Band; Tennessee Coon Hunt - Whit Gaydon; Too Tight Rag - Hack String Band; Cheat 'Em - Allen Bros; Hide Away - Oscar Ford; Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible - Tennessee Ramblers.
CD3: Pray Hard: You've Got to Stop Drinking Shine - Gid Tanner; Climbing the Golden Stairs - Happy Four; Oh Declare His Glory - McDonald Quartette; Easter Day - The Dixon Brothers; I'm S-A-V-E-D - Georgia Yellow Hammers; Way to Glory Land - Corley Family; You Must Be a Lover of the Lord - Fields Ward and the Grayson County Railsplitters; Gambler's Dying Words, The - Grady Moore/Sid Harkreader; I'm on My Way - Kentucky Holiness Singers; Leave It There - Snowball & Sunshine; Where We'll Never Grow Old - Alfred G. Karnes; If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul - Ernest Phipps and the Holiness Singers; When the Moon Drips Away Into the Blood - Taylor Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers; Beyond the Starry Plane - Red Brush Singers; My Christian Friends in Bonds of Love - Elder G.P. Harris.
Various Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard
by Skip Heller
There is always complaint that American contemporary musical life is at turns either too glitzy or overly-intellectualized. Either claim is overly simplistic, neither completely wrong. And in no area is it more true than country music. On one hand, there is the proud stupidity of Toby Keith and Gretchen Wilson. On the other, the self-consciously literate ...
Arizona Dranes : Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat
San Francisco-based label Tompkins Square has released the book+CD/eBook,'He Is My Story : The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes'. A singer sits at the piano and loses all inhibitions while in complete control of the instrument: Little Richard, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis. Although church singer Arizona Dranes doesn't come close to the stature of those ...
Calvin Keys Celebrates His 70th Birthday
Guitarist Calvin Keys will celebrate his 70th birthday on February 6th, 2012. To mark the occasion, Calvin will play a special birthday show Feb 6th, 7-11pm, at 57th St. Gallery, 5701 Telegraph Ave., Oakland CA. Tickets are $20 at the door. Keys' very first album,'Shawn-Neeq, originally released in 1971 on Black Jazz, has just been reissued ...
Calvin Keys "Shawn-Neeq" Reissued on 180g Vinyl
Calvin Keys' debut Shawn-Neeq will be reissued on 180g vinyl LP tomorrow, Jan 10, on Tompkins Square. The LP is now available for purchase at tompkinssquare.com Originally released on the influential label Black Jazz in 1971, guitarist Calvin Keys' debut is a stone classic waiting to be re-discovered. The funky, deep grooves and Calvin's singular guitar ...
Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934
By Amede Ardoin
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2011
Ran Blake Releases First-Ever Live Album
In a career spanning six decades, pianist/composer, writer and educator Ran Blake has released 36 albums for such labels as ESP, RCA, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album for Tompkins Square, All That Is Tied, earned 4 stars in Downbeat and top honors in the Penguin Jazz Guide 2007. Driftwoods, released in 2009, was Ran's salute ...
Ran Blake Celebrates New CD with Concert at Cobi's Place (NYC)
"Imagine the world's most profound cocktail pianist—wistful, yet utterly unsappy and given to quiet storms of weirdness—and you'll get a good idea of Ran Blake's sound. Tonight the 76-year-old stops by an off-the-beaten-path midtown venue to celebrate a new disc, Grey December—Live in Rome, and to honor the late, great Abbey Lincoln." —Time Out New York ...
One Step Des Chameaux
Album: Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934
By Amede Ardoin
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2011
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