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August Album Listenings


Tallest mountain on a planet: Olympus Mons on Mars. 


Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil
David Bridie Guardian

Going to be giving other choices for streaming moving forward (8/6).



8/1 Inglewood Jam 1952(recorded)/1978 release Charlie Parker with Chet Baker YouTube

8/2 Alex Malch 2025 hyacinth spotify

8/3 Fergus McCreadie 2022 Forest Floor spotify

8/4 Fergus McCreadie 2025 Stream (revisited) spotify

8/5 Modest Mouse 2024 Good News For People Who Like Bad News spotify

8/6 John Cooper Clarke 1980 Snap, Crackle & Bop  spotify  YouTube

8/7 Nine Treasures 2021 Awakening from Dukkha spotify YouTube

8/8 Dharma 2021 Treasury of the True Dharma Eye spotify

Dharma on Bandcamp.

8/9 Aaron Copeland 1970 London Symphony Orchestra Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Billy The Kid spotify 

8/10 Nice little playlist from NY Times about Roy Hargrove. Spotify


8/12 Getz and Gilberto 1964 spotify, YouTube

8/13 Karen Dalton 1969 It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best spotify YouTube

2020 documentary on her called In My Own Time on YouTube

8/14 Remembering Mountains: Unheard songs of Karen Dalton (tribute album, various artists) 2015 spotify

8/15 Karen Dalton 1971 In My Own Time spotify


8/17 Luka Bloom 1990 Riverside spotify

8/18 Katie Theasby 2019 I remember you singing spotify YouTube

8/19 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg spotify (Siskel and Ebert review YouTube)

8/20 The Young Girls of Rochefort
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