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

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

Power, Brigid Mae : The two worlds

Chapman, Michael : Fish

Charlie Poole With The Highlanders : Compete paramount & brunswick

Record Store Day 2013. Comes with a poster. "From 1926 to 1930 one of the most popular rural string bands on record was Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers.

Ardoin, Amede : Mama, I'll Be Long Gone - The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934

The father of Cajun and Zydeco is celebrated for the first time with his complete 34 recordings in one deluxe 2CD set. Rare Afro-Creole rhythms are heard alongside blues and breakdowns in this exquisitely remastered and produced volume, the first in the series of Long Gone Sounds for Tompkins Square.

Bachman, Daniel : Seven Pines

Bachman, Daniel : Jesus I'm a Sinner

Barr, Brad : The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar

Bikoff, Don : Celestial Explosion

Blackshaw, James : Celeste

For friends of Fahey/Basho/Bull etc.

Blackshaw, James : Sunshrine

Blackshaw, James : Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat

Broken Consort : Box of Birch

Broken Consort : Crow Autumn

Brown, Bob : Willoughby's Lament

Buckley, Tim : Live at the Folklore Center, NYC - March 6, 1967

Clark, Sonny - trio : 1960 time sessions with george duvivier

Crandell, Richard : In the Flower of Our Youth

Reissue of this classic solo acoustic guitar album. Originally released on the private press label Cutthroat Records in 1980, was Richard Crandell's first LP. His tune 'Rebecca' was famously covered by admirer Leo Kottke on his Chewing Pine album.

Fairfield, Frank : Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts - Rare And Unheralded Gramophone Recordings From Around The World 1916-64

Includes 16-page booklet with notes on each track by Fairfield.

Fairfield, Frank : Out on the Open West

Fosson, Mark : Digging in the dust

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 : 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.

Louvin, Charlie : Steps to Heaven

Features 10 traditional gospel classics including 2 Louvin Brothers songs.

Louvin, Charlie : Hickory Wind: Live At The Gram Parsons Guitar Pull

On February 22, 1956, The Louvin Brothers warmed up for Elvis Presley at City Auditorium in Waycross, GA. On hand was a nine year old boy named Gram Parsons. It would leave an indelible mark on the future legend, who went on to popularize several Louvin Brothers songs for the ages. On September 19, 2009, Charlie returned to Waycross to pay tribute to the granddaddy of 'alt country', singing 'Hickory Wind' for the first time ever.

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 : A Raga for Peter Walker

Peter Walker's first recordings in 37 years appear on A Raga For Peter Walker, which features four new tracks from Peter and original unreleased compositions by revered guitarists Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Greg Davis, Thurston Moore, and Shawn David McMillen.

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

V/A : Imaginational Anthem volume two

V/A : Imaginational Anthem volume three

The third in a series of compilations devoted to acoustic guitar mavericks past and present. Artists: Cian Nugent, Ben Reynolds, Shawn David McMillen, George Stavis, Richard Crandell, Mark Fosson, Greg Davis, Nathan Salsburg, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Matt Baldwin and R. Keenan Lawler.

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 IV: New Possibilities

The fourth volume of the acclaimed guitar series. Features C Joynes, Tyler Ramsey, William Tyler, Chris Forsyth, Sam Moss, Nick Jonah Davis, Pat O'Connell, Micah Blue Smaldone, Mike Fekete and Aaron Sheppard . CD artwork by Paul Romano (Mastodon).

V/A : Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939

Soldier's laments, heart-songs, and patriotic tunes have been an essential part of the American sound-scape for many generations. Most of these compositions, however, have been identified with the Vietnam War or with World War II. This newly minted collection presents performances captured between 1924 and 1939 of songs originating from the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the 'war to end all wars,' the First World War.

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 : Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman

Legendary UK singer/songwriter Michael Chapman gets the full tribute treatment with contemporaries and disciples paying their respects: D Charles Speer, Bridget St. John, Black Twig Pickers, Rick Kemp, Maddy Prior, Thurston Moore, Hiss Golden Messengers, Meg Baird, William Tyler, Nick Jonah Davis, Two Wings and Lucinda Williams.

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.

V/A : Live at Caffe Lena: Music from America's Legendary Coffeehouse (1967-2013)

Unreleased performances by Dave Van Ronk, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kate McGarrigle, Rick Danko, Anais Mitchell, Sleepy John Estes, Arlo Guthrie, Sarah Lee Guthrie, and more. Caffè Lena, the oldest continuously operating folk music coffeehouse in the US. Opened by Lena Spencer in 1960, this tiny room has played host to influential artists across diverse genres of music; traditional folk, blues, singer-songwriters, jazz, and bluegrass. This boxed set, the result of years of investigative research, contains 47 tracks, all released for the very first time, alongside previously unpublished images.