Joe's music blog

This page was last updated 15 June 2015. To send additions/corrections go to the contact page.

June 2015

Topic: Joni Mitchell

May 2015

Topics: The Prodigy, BalkanBeats, Balkan Beat Box

April 2015

Topic: Louis Armstrong

March 2015

Topic: "twenty 90s albums which intrigued and entertained me at the time, and which I still like"
albums by: Us3, Massive Attack, Oasis, Chemical Brothers, Björk, Primal Scream, Talvin Singh, Gusgus, Pulp, Propellerheads, The Prodigy, Radiohead, Blur, Underworld, Roni Size & Reprazent, Morphine, Beck, Everything But The Girl, Dodgy, Chumbawumba

February 2015

Topic: Dr. John

January 2015

Topics: Duke Ellington, Little Feat

December 2014

Topics: Toots and the Maytals, Sidestepper, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

November 2014

Topics: Värttinä, Don Redman, Walter Becker

October 2014

Topics: Jake Bugg, The History of Rhythm And Blues, Vol. II: 1942-1952

September 2014

Topics: Robert Plant, Todd Rundgren, Hilary Hahn

August 2014

Topic: Horace Silver

July 2014

Topic: Ray Barretto (and others on the Fania label)

June 2014

Topics: Grant Green, The Hives, Señor Coconut

May 2014

Topic: Ella Fitzgerald

April 2014

Topics: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, James Moody, Regina Spektor, Janáček (Sinfonietta)

March 2014

Topics: New Orleans Funk Vols. 1-3, Galactic, James Booker, Sydney Bechet

February 2014

Topic: Daft Punk

January 2014

Topics: Seeed, Nat 'King' Cole, Mika, Boardwalk Empire

December 2013

Topics: Etta James, Matt Munisteri (songs of Willard Robison), Antibalas, Beethoven (String Quartet in A minor, op. 132)