* Interestingly enough, LP sales are increasing again. Maybe you would enjoy some of our classic Original Live Concerts re-issued as LPs?

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Carmen McRae

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Just Carmen (At Ratso’s Vol.3)
1. Don’t Misunderstand
2. Ain’t Misbehavin’
3. I’m Pulling Through
4. I Only Have Eyes For You
5. Reaching For The Moon
6. A Weaver Of Dreams
7. Try A Little Tenderness
8. Exactly Like You
9. Detour Ahead
10. A Beautiful Friendship
11. Song For You (Marshall Otwell at the Piano)

Black Hills Gold is an easy listening mix of Country, Pop and Inspirational music. It began when “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying,” inspired Mark Llewellyn to begin his musical venture. This album came to life when famed guitarist Don Peake agreed to co-produce and arrange for Mark and provide lead guitar accompaniment. Encouraged by his wife Joni who arranged the first meeting with Don, this work of love has become a reality.

Mark has written ten originals of these 13 songs. Two were co-written by Mark’s son, Mark Jr., and his Nephew, Rowdi Walker. He was also accompanied by a cast of outstanding professional musicians including Mark Epstein, Voyce McGinley III, and Alex DelZoppo, and the final touches in mixing by Ron Hitchcock.

Black Hills Gold
1. Just As The Sky Turns To Blue
2. 1961
3. Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
4. Grandpa’s Song
5. It’s Meant To Be You
6. Back In California
7. Up On The Roof
8. The Love Of My MomI
9. The Gift Of LoveI
10. Sun Shining On The Water
11. Turn Around
12. Two Men Dead
13. You And Me Forever

At Ratso’s Vol.1
1. Music
2. You And I
3. Elusive Butterfly
4. Lost Up In Loving You
5. Hey John
6. All By Myself
7. A Letter For Anna Lee
8. Ellington Medley:
Satin Doll
Mood Indigo
I Didn’t Know About You
It Don’t Mean A Thing
9. Would You Believe
10. Them There Eyes
11. Dindi
12. I Am Music
13. Play-Off

Carmen McRae’s Trio
Marshall Otwell Piano
Ed Bennett Bass
Joey Baron Drums

Price:
$10.99

From WAZE Radio, an original live recording from the Ft. Harrison Hotel, Clearwater, Florida 1971. Recorded live by Ron Hitchcock.

1.  Blue Flame – Theme Song
2.  Keep On Keepin’ On
3.  Adam’s Apple        arr. Alan Broadbent
4.  Blues In The Night    arr. Alan Broadbent
5.  25 or 6 to 4
6.  Medley:
Pennies From Heaven
I’ve Got The World On A String
7.  Woody reminisces about Igor Stravinsky
8.  Love In Silent Amber    arr. Alan Broadbent
9.  Variations On A Scene  arr. Alan Broadbent
10.  Bijou   arr. Ralph Burns
11.  Woody recalls “Sidewalk”
12.  Sidewalk Stanley  arr. Alan Broadbent
13.  Theme Song

The Bus  April 25, 1971
Trumpets
Tony Klatka
Bob Agnew
Buddy Powers
Forest Buchtel
Bill Byrne
Trombones
Bobby Burgess
Rick Stepton
Don Switzer
Saxes
Sal Nistico (tenor)
Frank Tiberi (tenor)
Steve Lederer (tenor)
Mike Hanson (baritone)
Drums
Ed Soph
Bass
Bill Terry
Piano and Fender Rhodes
Alan Broadbent

The Bus  April 26, 1971
Trumpets
Tony Klatka
Tom Harrell
Buddy Powers
Forest Buchtel
Bill Byrne
Trombones
Bobby Burgess
Ira Nepus
Don Switzer
Saxes
Sal Nistico (tenor)
Frank Tiberi (tenor)
Steve Lederer (tenor)
Gene Smookler (baritone)
Drums
Ed Soph
Bass
Alan Read
Piano and Fender Rhodes
Alan Broadbent
Band Leader
Woodrow Charles Thomas Herman
played clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone, sang, and still swings…

The original Far Cry recordings, produced by David Russo and Joan Jones. While we’re sorting out CD issues, please visit iTunes.com for sampling and immediate download.

1. Rocket
2. Tenderness
3. Landslide
4. Middle Of My Life
5. Welcome To Emotion
6. Hideaway
7. Kiss The Train
8. Scream
9. Serious
10. Freedom
11. Love Lies

Joan Jones, a native Angelino, grew up on The Sunset Strip’s illustrious music scene. Her first band, Sun 60, released three albums on Sony’s Epic Records label, “SUN60″, “Only”, and “Headjoy”, totally amazing songs, music, and singing by Joan Jones!  After splitting with her band SUN60, Joan teamed up with celebrated producer, Nick Didia, (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, REM, Stone Temple Pilots and many more…) to produce her first solo album, “Starlite Criminal”, on Disney’s Hollywood Records. She has since followed up with Nick Didia making 3 more albums, “Atlanta Sessions”, “Velvet Underdog” and “Brown Blonde”. Joan has been playing, singing and composing music but also doing some of the same with some very talented musicians and especially lately with Mr. Bret Jensen, an amazing guitarist / songwriter / singer, who wrote and sang together the song “Heartbeat” in the recent feature film starring Gerard Butler from “300″ and Academy Award winning actress Hillary Swank’s movie “P.S. I Love You” out in theaters and on DVD. It’s one of those tear jerker movies that makes one glad to be alive and with that certain special someone in one’s life. She has toured with Cheap Trick, Fastball, SEAL, and Ziggy Marley as well as performed in two Lilith Faire tours. Joan’s music has also been heard on the MTV shows “The Real World”, “Road Rules”, the WB’s “Felicity”, “Popular”, and “Jack & Jill”, and many more shows. Joan Jones works in the greater Los Angeles area.

‘….everybody wants to come to my party – wearing ….

Business Affairs / Bookings: Nick Holden email: clubjoan@gmail.com

SONGS FROM THE MOBILE HOME

• David Munyon
FROM THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAMOSA

Here’s something very special and way under the radar from a great underground folk artist. David’s a very eccentric and extremely talented songwriter currently from Dothan, AL, who’s better known in Europe than he is in the States. I first ran into him in Nashville a little over a decade ago–Greg Humphrey, an old friend of mine, was producing him and invited me over to hear his latest project. Heavyweight players were involved–when I walked in, Lee Sklar was in from L.A. and cutting a bass track. The material and sounds were fantastic, and I believe were intended for a memorable CD on Glitterhouse Records called Code Name: Jumper. (Scrolling down the page that the Glitterhouse link leads you to you’ll find English translation, clips, and links to pages for his other albums there.) Munyon has also recorded a number of excellent CDs for Stockfisch Records, another fine German label. I caught a couple of his humble local gigs around that time, and was uniquely impressed. He wasn’t like any songwriter I’d seen before. He’d sit down, put on his reading glasses and open a big book of three or four hundred songs, leaf through it like a Bible, and sing them from a deep quiet and undeniable place, for those who’d lend an ear.

Along with mentioning these fine German labels and previous more-produced CDs, in this review we present two recent solo acoustic CDs the artist cut himself at a local studio (Steve Clayton’s Rayven Audio in Dothan) and is selling himself. The discs are apparently burned one at a time as the need arises, and they go for $20 apiece. David signs every one, and contributes money from each sale to several charities and religious organizations, even though he himself is never far from the poverty line. So we encourage serious songwriters and lovers of that art form to check out a couple of his songs on the Listen page and support the effort, as we do. (Mail order and contact information follows the review.)

Getting back to the story, the next time I saw Munyon was in Heidelberg, Germany, in the mid-90s. I was living there and playing in a duo with my brother Billy, and David and his wife Dixie came to stay in our rooming house in the Bahnhofstrasse (thanks to friends like Matthias, Birgit, and Norbert) which housed many arty and student types. David was doing an extensive tour of several European countries for Glitterhouse Records. He’s very highly regarded In Germany, Holland, France, and places far flung from his roots. We did a gig or two together with him then, and again lost sight of him for a while. He appeared like a phantom at my door in Nashville a couple of days ago, and I was happy to hear his new songs.

David Munyon’s a very complicated guy on the one hand, but an open book on the other. He’s on a spiritual track, but not in any New Age way. His music is more than naked, he’s more like a raw nerve. But if you wanna hear the real thing that goes right back to the spirit of Woody Guthrie, check out the music of David Munyon. • FG

To email the artist directly: JDvdMnyn@aol.com

david munyon online realrootscafe.com

lvp-site.nl (Dank u Martijn and Michel for the photo)

puremusic home

DAVID MUNYON Dogs Sleeping

David Munyon is a singer/songwriter born August 19th, 1951, in Newport, Rhode Island to Chet and Lola Mae Munyon, the last of five children. His Dad was a NASA Engineer and his Mom was a Preacher’s daughter. He is a “topical writer”,like many of the folk legends & roots artists of todays acoustic tradition. David is a writer, performer, painter, artist, poet, and farmer. He humbly promotes the book “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda. Please visit his website, www.davidmunyon.com for more biographical details, listen to more music and see a couple of videos if you want.

Cool Jazz

Would you be interested in an LP release, perhaps a 2-LP set of the Carmen McRae • At Ratso’s (including v.1 and v.2)?  Please send feedback or comment. This is one of Carmen’s finest performance and worthy of a lacquer LP release if we gather enough interest. eMail your interest to ron@hitchcock-media.com

Don Peake It's About Time

Don Peake, an original “Studio Dog” icon, presents his new jazz album.
HMR-9103 Now Available. iTunes.com also has this album for sample and download.

It’s About Time
1. Just Friends
2. Soho Blue
3. Girl With The Flaxen Hair
4. Honeysuckle Rhythm
5. Lookin’ For Trouble
6. Lover Man
7. Natasha
8. Sweet Dick Willie
9. Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Recently inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame, Don Peake is a multi-talented musician who has worked as a guitarist, arranger, record producer, and film music composer. Starting his professional musical career as a guitarist in 1961, Peake’s talent was recognized early when he toured as lead guitarist with the Everly Brothers at the age of 21, playing in the U.S. and Europe for two years. Peake returned to Los Angeles to establish himself as a recording musician, and played for many of the legendary performers under Phil Spector’s production including The Righteous Brothers – “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”, Ike and Tina Turner – ” River Deep Mountain High”, as well as recording with Mahalia Jackson, Billy Preston, Cannonball Adderly, Marvin Gaye, and Diana Ross.

He played lead guitar for Marvin Gaye (Let’s Get It On), and on all the Jackson Five’s original hits, “ABC”, “I Want You Back”, etc. Don was on the Commodores, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Temptations, and many more Motown Artists’ records as a staff guitarist for Motown Records.  Don also played on John Lennon’s records that Phil Spector produced, and on all of Barry White’s hit records, some of which he arranged.

The Don Peake All-Stars
Don Peake, Band leader, guitar, composer and arranger
John Leftwich, Bass
John Patitucci, Bass on Battle Hymn
Billy Mintz, Drums
Mike Garson, Keyboards
Ray Pizzi, Saxophone, Bassoon

Knight Rider: Best of Don Peake Vol.3

Vol.3 is a licensed re-issue of the Volume-1 from Hi-Tech Records (year 2000).
It contains 65 tracks or scene Q’s by composer Don Peake.
Main Title written by Stu Phillips and Glenn Larson, not included in this volume.

HMR-9105 Now Shipping.
Episodes
1. Knight of The Chameleon
2. Lost Knight
3. K.I.T.T. vs K.R.R.R.
4. Knight In Retreat
This pressed CD is licensed by NBC/Universal.