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As readers who follow this series know, it's gotten harder to find "obscure" fare worth sharing, so more recently, I've taken to re-upping older features from several years ago. But there were some good finds (at least by my light!) earlier this year. Here's my five favorites for 2022; feel free to add yours in the comments:
Blonde on Blonde, "All Day All Night," 1968
The Gods, "Farthing Man," 1968
And one runner-up: Sensational Alex Harvey Band, "Midnight Moses," 1972
I listen too many hours per day to New Jersey's WFMU, which prides itself on refusing to allow great and sometimes less than great obscure music to disappear. In addition to the programs on their FCC-regulated airwaves, which also stream over the Web, the station hosts three parallel Web-only streams. Just now I can only remember as far back as yesterday. One show featured a track by a 1975 Polish progressive rock artist, "Cztery ściany świata" by Czesław Niemen. New to me and notable!
Have you dug into Wishbone Ash? They are my new favorite old band.
I don’t know whether you’re a fan of Little Steven’s Underground Garage, the radio show by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band member and Sopranos actor Steven Van Zandt, but many of the songs that have been posted here over the years seem similar in style to the kinds of things Van Zandt plays on the Underground Garage. Archived shows can be found here: https://www.undergroundgarage.com/. What’s great is that Van Zandt has playlists for the archived shows, so you can browse the playlists to find new songs or artists.
My big find this year was Asakawa Maki's version of 'House of the Rising Sun' (1972). Other new-to-me pieces that I listened to 50-100 times this year were Alice Coltrane's version of Stravinsky's Firebird, Bukka White's 'Aberdeen Mississippi Blues', the indigenous Taiwanese Ami people's 'Elder's Drinking Song', Charlie Patton's 'High Water Rising (part one)', Nduduzo Matsie's 'Siphila kamnandi' (best audience ever!), Arpi Alto singing Komitas's 'The Homeless', Grigory Sokolov playing Komitas, and Shabaka Hutching's 'Summon the Fire'. A special mention must go to the ultimate anti-Leiter anthem, the Osborne Brothers' 'Ruby', discovered through Bob Dylan's sublime The Philosophy of Modern Song. Some links:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ndudu+matse
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