Archive for July, 2009

The Lovin’ Spoonful – Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind

The Lovin’ Spoonful is probably best known for their hit “Do You Believe In Magic.” I don’t love the band but I really like this folky song.

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Posted in Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 21st, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

John Hartford – Holding

Holding is a great John Hartford song off his epic album Aereo-Plain.

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Posted in Forgotten Music, Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 20th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

Jorge Ben – Umbabarauma

We have been posting a lot of Brazilian music lately but everyone is loving it so why stop? I originally heard this song on a Brazilian music compilation album put out by David Byrne as his “musical love letter to Brazil.” Actually, that compilation, Beleza Tropical Brazil Classics 1, is without question one of my top ten favorite albums. “Umbabarauma” is the first song on that compilation.

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Posted in Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 17th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

Steve Winwood – At Times We Do Forget

Steve Winwood is has been in some great band including Spencer Davis Group (I posted the song “Keep On Running” a few weeks ago) and Traffic. This song was released in 2008 on his album Nine Lives.

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Posted in Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 16th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

Gipsy Kings – Djobi Djoba

I can’t get enough of the Gipsy Kings right now. This song has such a great melody and amazing rhythmic stuff going on. I would love to hear about your favorite Gipsy Kings song via comments on this blog post. The Gipsy Kings were born in France but their parents were gitanos, or Spanish Romanies. Their music is heavily influenced by Flamenco and the style is called Rumba Catalana.

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Posted in Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 15th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

CéU – Samba Na Sola

CéU is a Brazilian musician from São Paulo whose music is influenced by a diverse set of genres including samba, valsa, choro, soul, rhythm and blues, hip hop, afrobeat and electrojazz music. This particular song is a samba off of her album Vagarosa. The entire album is very diverse so even if you don’t love this samba, you’ll probably find something you really like on the album.

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Posted in Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 14th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

Joni Mitchell – A Case Of You

Here is a rarely played song by Joni Mitchell. Pretty cool theme for a love song – “I could drink a case of you, and still be on my feet…”

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Posted in Forgotten Music, Underplayed Music on July 13th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –

Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel

Headin’ out to the country for the weekend. Here is a sweet song written by Bob Dylan and Old Crow Medicine Show. They didn’t write the song together but Old Crow wrote the song based on an unfinished version by Bob Dylan and performed it at Bob Dylan’s 60th birthday in 2001. Apparently Bob Dylan wrote the chorus which was then altered a little bit by Old Crow, and Old Crow wrote the verses.

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Posted in Underplayed Music, Unknown Songs on July 10th, 2009 by Tony Amoyal –