Bruce Robison / Back Porch Band - Bruce Robison & The Back Porch BandBruce Robison & The Back Porch Band is a "real" nine track album made up of good time, light hearted romps ("Rock n' Roll Honky Tonk Ramblin' Man") and wistful, sometimes bittersweet ballads ("Long Time Coming"; "Still Doin' Time"). Even The Who's "Squeezebox" which Robison calls a "a great country song by some English dudes" fits perfectly in the mix. Long time friend, Jack Ingram, appears with Robison on "Paid My Dues," (written by Jason Eady and

Our Leo Fall cycle continues with Die Rose von Stambul (The Rose of Stamboul)

Howard Kennedy

it includes strong solos from Fela on keyboards and the fearsome Igo Chico on tenor saxophone

Austrian singer/songwriter Harry Marte recorded his vinyl album 'Extra Brut' with an acoustic trio line-up

songwriter and harp player Shakey Jake will forever be remembered as one of the premier architects of Chicago's West Side blues scene of the late 1950's and early 1960's

If poets were antiques

there are new bands that stand out and help carrying the style

Le Monde De Kota - Murmures

a piece he began in the 1980s and completed recently

One of them was Erich Kleiber

It took Frank Martin a long time to heed his deep-seated inner calling to write a Requiem: 'What I have tried to express here is the clear will to accept death

52) and the original 1841 version of the Fourth Symphony in D minor (Op