Tompkins square

Harmony Rockets With Special Guest Peter Walker / Harmony Rockets : Lachesis / clotho / atropos

Raymond, Gwenifer : You never were much of a dancer

Baker, Duck : Les blues du richmond : demos and outtakes 1973-1979

Gwenifer, Raymond : Deep sea diver/bleeding finger blues

Entourage : Ceremony of dreams:studio sessions & outtakes, 1972-77

Power, Brigid Mae : The two worlds

V/A : Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 - Origins of American Primitive Guitar

Record Store Day 2013. If American primitive guitar begins with John Fahey and the Takoma School, then the actual origins of this sound are found within this collection of fourteen classic solo guitar performances. Recorded between 1923 and 1930, this set is the 'Rosetta Stone' of style and repertoire tapped into deeply by Fahey, Basho, and Rose, among many others.

Bachman, Daniel : Jesus I'm a Sinner

Bachman, Daniel : Seven Pines

Barr, Brad : The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar

Blackshaw, James : Lost prayers and motionless dances

Blackshaw, James : Litany of Echoes

Blackshaw, James : Celeste

For friends of Fahey/Basho/Bull etc.

Blackshaw, James : Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat

Broken Consort : Box of Birch

Broken Consort : Crow Autumn

Brown, Bob : Willoughby's Lament

Charlie Poole With The Highlanders : The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings 1929

Corcoran, Michael : He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes

CD + book - The book includes a CD containing all 16 of Arizona Dranes' recorded tracks, expertly re-mastered from the original OKeh label 78 RPM records.

Davis, Nick Jonah : Of Time And Tides: Guitar Recordings Vol. II

Of Time and Tides is Nick Jonah Davis' more expansive second release, featuring evocative solo performances on 6 and 12 string guitar, as well as duets with guitarist Will Phipps and pianist Ed Earl.

Elkington, James & Salsburg, Nathan : Avos

Guitar duet album by James Elkington (The Zincs) and Nathan Salsburg.

Fairfield, Frank : I've Always Been a Eambler / Darling Corey

Fosson, Mark : Digging in the Dust: Home Recordings 1976

Kentucky native Mark Fosson recorded one album for John Fahey's Takoma Records in 1976 which went unreleased until 2006. Mark recently found the home demo for that session.

Gayle, Charles : Time Zones

Charles Gayle is without question one of the most intriguing figures in modern jazz today. Like with his saxophone playing, Gayle uses the entire range of the piano. His style is highly personal, yet firmly grounded in the playing of past masters like Art Tatum and Bud Powell.

Giuseppi Logan Quintet : The Giuseppi Logan Quintet

Hiss Golden Messenger : Poor Moon

Hughes, Lena : Queen of the Flat Top Guitar

Impossibly rare recordings by the legendary finger-picker. Notes by John Renbourn.

Lewin, Philip : Am I Really Here All Alone?

Louvin, Charlie : Steps to Heaven

Features 10 traditional gospel classics including 2 Louvin Brothers songs.

Louvin, Charlie : Sings Murder Ballads And Disaster Songs

Louvin, Charlie : Charlie Louvin

Features guest performances by Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy, Will Oldham, Tom T. Hall, George Jones, Bobby Bare Sr., Tift Merritt, Marty Stuart, David Kilgour, and members of Bright Eyes, Lambchop, Superchunk, Blanche and Clem Snide, among others. The album features several Louvin Brothers classics as well as country favorites first popularized by Jimmie Rodgers, The Delmore Brothers, The Carter Family, and The Monroe Brothers.

Mcmillen, Shawn David : Dead Friends

Ochs, Max : Hooray for Another Day

Max Ochs. Cousin of Phil Ochs. Poet. Schoolmate of John Fahey and Robbie Basho. Friend of Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James. Social activist. Takoma and Fonotone recording artist.

Red Fox Chasers : I'm Going Down to North Carolina - The Complete Recordings of the Red Fox Chasers (1928-31)

These recordings represent a unique and exciting blend of Appalachian fiddle tunes & ballads, popular tin pan alley songs & Victorian sentimental compositions. Hailing from north-west North Carolina, the group assimilated a 'Galax fiddle-sound' with an intricate three-finger banjo style that simultaneously evokes Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters and Charlie Poole.

Smith, Sean : Christmas

Christmas is a gorgeous contemporary acoustic guitar recording featuring fourteen well-known Christmas classics and two Sean Smith originals.

Taussig, Harry : Fate Is Only Twice

V/A : Imaginational Anthem - A Guitar Anthology

Imaginational Anthem brings together pioneering acoustic guitar heroes of the '60s and '70s alongside a new generation of amazing players. Nearly 70 minutes of archival, live and newly recorded studio tracks -- some by artists who haven't released any music in decades. Plus a deluxe booklet with producer's notes and never before seen photographs. Artists: Max Ochs, Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Sean Smith, Bern Nix, Harris Newman, Brad Barr, Jesse Sparhawk,Sandy Bull, John Fahey, Bob Hadley, Kaki King, Steve Mann, Suni McGrath, Gyan Riley, Janet Smith and Harry Taussig.

V/A : Aimer Et Perdre: To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917-1934

The unique pre-war music of the Cajun bayous, the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine and Poland, and the American rural countryside has been collected to narrate the human odyssey of love gained and love lost. The accompanying 60-page booklet features many rare, previously unpublished images and comprehensive lyrical translation. Three original artworks Robert Crumb provide a backdrop for these sublime songs of passion and despair.

V/A : Face A Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album

A tribute to the music of E.C. and Orna Ball, and a thirty-year memorial to E.C., who died in 1978. Featuring Jolie Holland, Jon Langford, Michael Hurley, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and many others.

V/A : Imaginational Anthem volume two

V/A : Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, & End Time Music, 1923-1936

Triple LP version. "Work, play, pray -- the life cycle of the rural America that created our greatest generation of country music, 1923 to 1936. These volumes survey songs of labor and occupation, hardship and loss; dance tunes, cosmic numbers, and novelties that provided distraction and fun; and the hymns and sacred pieces that reached beyond the raw material of daily existence for something enduring.

V/A : Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 - Origins of American Primitive Guitar

V/A : This May Be My Last Time Singing - Raw, African-American Gospel On 45rpm 1957-1982

Get ready for fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons and righteously ragged a cappela hymns! The music on this compilation was originally released on small label 45s, mostly in the 1960s and '70s. At least one-third of the records were self-released, paid for by a church congregation or the artists themselves.

V/A : Imaginational Anthem IV: New Possibilities

Gatefold lp, limited edition of 500.

V/A : Fire in My Bones - Raw + rare + other-worldly African-American Gospel (1944-2007)

V/A / Smith, Sean / Snider, Adam / Baldwin, Matt : Berkeley Guitar

Berkeley Guitar is a collection of new recordings by three of the Bay Area's finest young acoustic guitarists: Sean Smith, Adam Snider, and Matt Baldwin.

V/A : Turn Me Loose - Outsiders of "Old-time" Music

Frank Fairfield curates another reissue of 78 rpm records - this time with the help of a few of his collector friends. The collection focuses on some of the most seldom acknowledged varieties of Anglo-American vernacular music. You'll hear unusual performers, uncommon instrumentation and great fiddlers from California to Ohio, New Mexico to West Virginia.

Valente, Dino : Valente, Dino

First-ever vinyl re-issue of the 1968 psych classic by Dino Valente (Quicksilver Messenger Service). First time commercially available in glorious mono. Recorded under the supervision of Bob Johnston (Dylan, Cohen, Cash). Original liner notes by Ralph Gleason.