O A R (full album) ALL DAY ~

 

Oar is the only studio album by American singer-songwriter Alexander "Skip" Spence, released on May 19, 1969, by Columbia Records. It was recorded over seven days in December 1968 in Nashville, and features Spence on all of the instruments.

GERTRUDE ABERCROMBIE ~

 

R E A D   M E

Gertrude Abercrombie

  "The Whole World is a Mystery"

STEREOLAB (BRAKHAGE) ~

 

BRIGITTE BARDOT ~

 

Ms. Bardot in a scene from “La Vérité,” Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Oscar-nominated 1960 crime drama. She called it the only good film she ever made.Credit...Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images

B R I G I T T E   B A R D O T

1934 ~ 2025

STAN BRAKHAGE (stick with it) ~

 

          Window Water Baby Moving

      1959

ANDREW HILL TONIGHT ~

 

   Joe Henderson

   Roy Haynes

   Richard Davis

   Andrew Hill

THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Nightboat Books

     2025

ARCHIVE: GRACE HARTIGAN'S JOURNALS ~

 

R E A D   M E

    Syracuse University Press

    2009

NEW YORKER CARTOONS ~

 

LAUGH  WITH  ME

      St. Martin's, 2024

MIKE HURLEY'S FIRST SONGS ~

 

      Folkways Records

      1964

PHILIP KOUTEV CHOIR ~

 

Author's concert of Georgi Genov, April 7, 2010 Performed at Studio 1 of Bulgarian National Radio by the choir of the Bulgarian National Folklore Ensemble "Philip Koutev" Soloist: Neli Andreeva Music, conductor: Georgi Genov

JOY! ~

J O Y!

I T'S   T H E R E

T O   G R A B

 

photo from Longhouse 

Dec 24, 2025

DRIFTIN' ALL NIGHT W/ STEREOLAB ~

 

CLASSIC HOUR ~

 

KOBAYASHI ISSA ~

Under cherry trees

there are

no strangers

    Mother I never knew,

every time I see the ocean,

    every time —

    Full moon;

my ramshackle hut

    is what it is.

                    ____________________________________________________   

translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass

K O B A Y A S H I   I S S A

TOWNES VAN ZANDT ALL NIGHT ~

 

THE BROTHERS GRIMM ~

 

R E A D   M E

      Yale University 2024

CHET ATKINS JINGLE BELLS TONIGHT ~

 

   1961

BRENDA LEE ~

 

Recorded and originally issued (mostly unnoticed) for the 1958 holiday season before Brenda’s career had taken off, this track was reissued toward the end of her break-out year of 1960 and has been with us ever since.

ARCHIVE: R CRUMB RECORD COVER COLLECTION ~

 

R. C R U M B

One of the Great Gifts

after all these years