Saturday 30 January 2010

Andres Segovia - The Song of the Guitar

Great documentary with maestro Segovia playing, speaking about guitar and telling the story of his life in a great environment of Alhambra. Taken from shp-guitar

220 Mb, 48 min

Sunday 24 January 2010

Alexander Martynov - Russian guitar music

Variaty of examples of russian guitar music styles - pretty hard to find pieces by Mihail Vysotsky and Alexander Sihra, XIX century Russian guitar virtuosos, along with guitar adaptions of Dmitry Bortnyansky and novelty tunes by Sergey Rudnev and guitar modernist Nikita Koshkin.

01. M. Vysotskij - 'Ah, My Mother, I Have Headache' (Variations)
02. M. Vysotskij - Mazurka
03. M. Vysotskij - 'Ah, Ne Pava_.'
04. D. Bortnyanskij - Adagio and rondo from sonata for clavier
05. A. Sihra - Mazurka
06. A. Sihra - 'Ah, No Autumn Leaf' (Variations)
07. A. Sihra - Two ecossesses
08. A. Sihra - Concert etude _1
09. S. Rudnev - 'Anciant Linden' (Fantasia)
10. N. Koshkin - 'The Fall of Birds' (Andante quasi Passacaglia e Toccata)

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Tuesday 19 January 2010

Chet Atkins - Early Years, Vol. 2


1. Honey (2nd version)
2. The Lady Loves Me
3. New Spanish Two Step (with Hank Snow)
4. Reminiscing (with Hank Snow)
5. Trambone
6. Peanut Vendor
7. Blue Echo
8. Tricky
9. Martinque
10. Dig These Blues
11. Colonial Ballroom
12. Midnight
13. Jitterbug Waltz
14. Lullaby
15. Beloved
16. I Feel It in My Soul
17. The Lord Done Brought Him Out
18. Because
19. No Greater Love
20. Moon Over Burma

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Tuesday 12 January 2010

Chet Atkins - Early Years, Vol. 1

A set of early recordings by Chet Atkins, including the rarities like Empty Slippers. More stuff to come.

1. Empty Slippers
2. Why Don't You Leave Me Alone
3. Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White
4. (The Wallflower) Dance with Me, Henry
5. Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
6. Tweedle Dee
7. Hey, Mr. Guitar (Hey, Mr. Banjo)
8. Unchained Melody
9. Tennessee Polka
10. Somebody Stole My Gal
11. Shine on Harvest Moon
12. Jingle Bells
13. Christmas Carols
14. Cecilia
15. Arrivederci, Roma
16. Sleigh Bells, Reindeer & Snow (Poss. Merle Atkins vcl.)

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Friday 1 January 2010

The Ventures - In the Vaults, Vol. 4

Happy New Year, everyone!

Here goes another rare item I would like to share with all fans of the Ventures, here goes a last of "In The Vaults" compilations, dedicated to session musicians which played with the band for a long time. My favourites are Echo, which has a typical Ventures touch and Don't Avoid Me with unforgettable Don's vocal :-)

1. Journey to the stars
2. Delicado
3. Night run (The Marksmen)
4. Station breaks
5. Driving guitars
6. Don't avoid me (voc. Don Wilson)
7. Echo
8. Yellow jacket
9. Delta Lady
10. Heart on my sleeve (voc. Don Wilson)
11. Scratch (The Marksmen)
12. Memphis
13. Like you've never known before (voc. Don Wilson)
14. Black tarentella
15. Original number one
16. The Twomp (voc. Don Wilson)
17. Beautiful obsession
18. Bumble Bee
19. Son of a preacher man
20. Runaway (voc. Don Wilson)
21. Downtown
22. Pedal pusher
23. Feel so fine
24. Medley: Walk don't run/Perfidia/Lullaby Of The Leaves
25. The jam
26. Caravan

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