Herbie Hancock : Watermelon Man [ purchase ] Billy Jonas : Old St Helen [ purchase ] As we have seen all week, human beings have b...

Mungo Jerry: Mighty Man [ purchase ] For a short but important time in the 1950s, skiffle was Britain’s most influential genre of mu...

Mercury Rev : Endlessly [ purchase ]  In the age of the sampler, few spend much time thinking about Mellotrons.  Essentially tape replay...

Mitsuki Dazai, Radim Zenkl and Joe Ross : Koto Nuts [Unreleased] Geoviki’s post about the Japanese koto brought back a wonderful memory o...

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with Hossam Ramzy‘s Egyptian Ensemble : Nobody’s Fault But Mine [ purchase ] Abigail Washburn : Nobody’s F...

Ray Skjelbred: Washington Phillips Medley [ purchase ] Not only is the dolceola a little known instrument, it is hard to find r...

The Stooges : Penetration [Purchase]      Invented in 1896, the celeste --best known for providing the soft "celestial" me...

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris: After the Gold Rush [ purchase ] ...In which Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Do...

Kagrra, : Meguru [ purchase ] The koto is a plucked, 13-stringed wooden instrument with moveable bridges allowing for variable tuni...

Taj Mahal/Toumani Diabate: Queen Bee [ purchase album ] Taj Mahal first came to my attention on account of George Harrison's Con...

Morphine : Honey White [ purchase ] Morphine is another band that emerged after I graduated from college. Although I listened to music ...

Augustus Pablo : Jah Light [ purchase ] The melodica, also known as the blow-organ or the key-flute, was l...

Kate Bush : Night of the Swallow [ purchase ] In the 1980s, synthesizers reached a level of sophistication that allowed musicians to a...

Freedy Johnston : Responsible [Purchase] When The Silos broke up, co-founder Bob Rupe kept busy as a member of the indie sup...

The Silos : Caroline [ purchase ] There seem to be many songs with “Caroline” in the title, but when I saw the previous song, I immediat...

MC Solaar : Caroline [ purchase ]   I was cool, sitting on a bench.  It was springtime.   For a genre so dependent upon lyrics, not many...

Wreckless Eric : Reconnez Cherie [Purchase] Decades before marrying Amy Rigby, Wreckless Eric recorded some of the great St...

Amy Rigby : All I Want [ purchase ] Money may be what the Beatles and the Flying Lizards want, but in her song "All I Want,...

Flying Lizards : Money (That‘s What I Want) [ purchase ] The rules of our game this week are to post the first song that comes to mind...

Nu-Utopians: I Don't Want to Spoil the Party [ free download at Beatles Complete on Ukelele ] Time to get out of the TV funk we...