The Memory Band

YouTube video by am l Norma Waterson - Black Muddy River

Randomly reminded today of one of the very best Grateful Dead covers www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpc...

YouTube video by freein2339 Undisputed Truth - UFOs

The Undisputed Truth-UFOs

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YouTube video by Liam Bailey - Topic Gold

New tune drops from Liam youtu.be/vzqNr3wNi2g?... 'stay gold, ponyboy'

Shadows & Reflections: Mark Hooper looks back over a year that put us all on Boil Notice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...

YouTube video by Sam Grassie The Corries "Where Two Hawks Fly" Arr. Sam Grassie

Today's tune: youtu.be/s86d46USyuo?...

Alela Diane Announces “Who’s Keeping Time?” and Shares New Single “California” Alela Diane’s seventh album Who’s Keeping Time? arrives May 22nd via Loose Music — a grief-lit, community-forged return, previewed by the luminous lead single California.

For Alela Diane, the death of Portland folk legend Michael Hurley last year didn’t close a door — it flung one wide open. Who’s Keeping Time?, her seventh album, arrives May 22nd as a communal, attic-recorded reckoning with time, memory, and the enduring pull of song. klofmag.com/2026/02/alel...

'the history of creative techniques shows them to be largely cumulative versus sequential. The keyboard synthesizer has not replaced the piano, which has not replaced the harpsichord or the organ. We have them all, that whole lineage, all still in use.'

YouTube video by Gary Burton - Topic I Want You (Live)

Today's song: youtu.be/17BeRQxeCC4?...

Marisa Anderson shares first single from ‘The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music’ Marisa Anderson announces The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1, a trilogy-opening collection of guitar arrangements from the late Harry Smith’s archive, out May 22nd.

Marisa Anderson’s The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1, draws from the late Harry Smith’s vast private collection to present nine guitar arrangements sourced from regions the US has been in conflict with since 1970. First single, Taqsim for Guitar, is out now. klofmag.com/2026/02/mari...

YouTube video by Cannonball Adderley - Topic Walk Tall (Live From The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA/1972)

Today's song: youtu.be/JtTz26lVQWE?...

An illustration of the Greek music group Aphrodites Child. Three bearded and shaggy haired men from the shoulders up- Vangelis, Demis Rousos & Lucas Sideras.

Revisited an illustration of the band Aphrodites Child I did in 2005 and started from scratch using the same photo reference.
Hopefully will be making a Riso print of this.

Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece

I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem

The 'Chat Noir', Old Compton St (1932) by Clifford Hall

(University of Hull Art Collection)

YouTube video by The Isley Brothers - Topic I Know Who You Been Socking It To

Today's song: youtu.be/znrDekFmHr0?...

electric piano keys.

I'm selling my vintage Hohner Pianet T electro-mechanical piano as designed by Ernst Zacharius. It's in wonderful condition with it's own custom stand. DM me for details if interested.

Oh farewell, Bud Cort, with your forever face. I discovered Harold and Maude when I was 18 and I don’t think I’ve ever felt the pure, all-embracing beauty of a film as much as that one, at that age. It opened so many doors for me.

YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Topic Don't Be Shy

Today's song: youtu.be/TyEgdgm3vBI?...

I like the Funk Inc version too.

YouTube video by Jerry Garcia - Topic Shady Grove

Today's song: youtu.be/wRPRI0iYLQw?...

Everyone knows about the MASSIVE DUMP of Beach Boys rarities and outtakes that appeared on the internet a couple of days ago, right?

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YouTube video by Bad Bunny BAD BUNNY - BAILE INoLVIDABLE (Visualizer) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

Have not seen the superbowl show but I understand this banger was in the set: youtu.be/2Y4zvxK0wYM?...

I used to go into Hale's Radio shop as a child, great place.

YouTube video by playedby Gathaspar - Op. 3 [CHYPRE002]

Today's tune: youtu.be/aT0Ib6VK8eg?...

1777: Very harsh day. The fieldfares now feed on sloes, which abound on the hedges. 'Til now I never observed that any birds touched the sloes.

For Bandcamp Friday today we have dug out some tapes and vinyl to sell and have made our entire digital discography available to download for under £30.

Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter

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More tapes for Bandcamp Friday.

a James Brown cassette tape.

More tape love.

YouTube video by The Sagegazers The Cosmos Unveiled by System 55 (1989)

Kernow 1989: youtu.be/DywmtGXLCB8?...