This weeks brunch is served up with all you can eat Maryland crabs because I write it while staying a few days at my mother in law Jackie's, who is a crab junkie and the inspiration...
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Satchmo Redemption: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five and Sevens
Cheffy Chef's International Brunch - Desert Island Edition
Today's brunch is served with coconut flavored teardrops because I'm musing about the horror of forced solitary confinement on a hypothetical, life-sustaining island.
To start, if I'm stuck on a desert island I'll need two records. One for each of the foundational human feeling directors, love and fear, and their subsequent ebbing and...
Calm Down Juanita - Undertown
Undertown is by local Seattle's own Calm Down Juanita. Never heard of them? Neither has anyone else, on the web I can only find a radio play list or two from the early aughts in Seattle that mentions them. Otherwise, all I can say is that this really psychedelically inclined guy named Kevtone used to come to Johnny Dowd Shows in Seattle and get the party started with a crew of his delightfully trouble making friends (this memory could also be of other Seattle people who were there at the...
Adrian Sherwood Presents: The Master Recordings
Adrian Sherwood Presents: The Master Recordings is a compilation of tracks from the producer that kept dub alive all the years before it's recent dub step and dancehall regeneration, Adrian Sherwood. Sherwood started his career working with dub legends like Lee Perry, Mikey Dread and Prince Far I recording and mixing their albums and putting them out on his hastily thrown together record labels. He went on to take the dub sound and style of tweaking tracks to further borders of music...
Hector Varela - Al As del Tango y su Orquesta Tipica
Tango started in poor Italian, French and Spanish immigrant neighborhoods on the Argentine and Uruguayan shores of the Rio De La Plata around 1890. It combined folk music from a bunch of european countries and was played with a small string orchestra, piano, accordion and gymnastic, sobbing singer.
Hector Varela was an Argentine trained to be an accountant, but his tango bands were too good from age 16 on. He met his singer Rodolfo Lesica in a cab. They went on to make money on radio...
