Live performances by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, recorded at a student ministry on the University of Michigan campus in 1968, were among the professional-quality recordings unearthed by the Michigan History Project.
Seven-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes featuring concerts by Tim Buckley, Odetta, David Ackles and Dave Van Ronk were also among the recordings made at the Canterbury House, an Ann Arbor, Michigan venue that hosted counterculture events in the mid to late-Sixties.
The Michigan History Project recently acquired the recordings, with the non-profit organization now seeking a record label interested in releasing the concerts.
Seven-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes featuring concerts by Tim Buckley, Odetta, David Ackles and Dave Van Ronk were also among the recordings made at the Canterbury House, an Ann Arbor, Michigan venue that hosted counterculture events in the mid to late-Sixties.
The Michigan History Project recently acquired the recordings, with the non-profit organization now seeking a record label interested in releasing the concerts.
- 7/28/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
David J. Roch: Skin & Bones (Dram)
The punk aspiration that "everyone can" has been rendered by the digital age a democratic reality, and a jaundiced reward. A tsunami of silver discs panhandle the ears of listeners, and as a result an air of capable mediocrity holds sway, an invisible ether of downloads gas expectations with their average worth instant availability, and then, but only occasionally, something creeps out of the speakers that startles and stuns, demands proper attention, and soars above the parliament of ordinary birds and their common-place warblings.
Though this is a debut album, Sheffield's David J. Roch sounds like a seasoned hand. He also betrays a sense of pain and sorrow at odds with his tender years, but the first cut, even if more brutal ones follow, feels like the deepest, the most wounding. His songs are proof and testament to this, have a power, maturity, and...
The punk aspiration that "everyone can" has been rendered by the digital age a democratic reality, and a jaundiced reward. A tsunami of silver discs panhandle the ears of listeners, and as a result an air of capable mediocrity holds sway, an invisible ether of downloads gas expectations with their average worth instant availability, and then, but only occasionally, something creeps out of the speakers that startles and stuns, demands proper attention, and soars above the parliament of ordinary birds and their common-place warblings.
Though this is a debut album, Sheffield's David J. Roch sounds like a seasoned hand. He also betrays a sense of pain and sorrow at odds with his tender years, but the first cut, even if more brutal ones follow, feels like the deepest, the most wounding. His songs are proof and testament to this, have a power, maturity, and...
- 4/3/2012
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
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