COVER THE EARTH Vol. 5

When will it end?!  Still more bizarre international ethnic versions of Western pop hits. And by 'ethnic' I also mean American and E...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY SING-OFF

Remember the wildly popular "Golden Throats" collections of singing celeb records? 'Twas one of the few areas where the strang...

CLIFFIE STONE "COOL COWBOY"

(" Better Than The Beatles " is back on-line) As a companion piece to the " How The West Was Swung " album by Vegas croo...

PETE BRADY - "How The West Was Swung"

Does what it says on the tin: "The Best of the West Done With A Swingin' Beat." This 1962 album, one of the few recorded by lo...

Ahh...Outsider Music...

The George King/Joe Corney Space-Age Organ Sounds are back on-line. The first thing many Americans think when they hear the phrase "fo...

SILLY 78s pt3

At long last! Count Otto Black's continued spelunking into the dark, forgotten caverns of music history has resulted in another overdue ...

Silly 78s pt2

Count Otto Black returns!  With a further batch of awesome audio oddities and atrocities from the first half of recorded history. Perhaps ev...

SILLY 78s

A hardworking, generous Maniac known to us commoners as Count Otto Black has bequeathed unto us an old wooden chest crammed full of mp3s. As...

ABE VIGODA'S UNDEAD

Even tho Peter Murphy is apparently a hit-and-run driving meth-head , a kind judge has allowed his "35 Years of Bauhaus" tour to p...

The FLYING DUTCHMAN - ONE-MAN BAND SHOW

How's THAT for an album cover?  I think you can see why I picked up this private-press piece of vintage vinyl recently - it truly is a s...

ALBUM DU JOUR #4: POLLUTING THE MAINSTREAM

The Eagles!  Fleetwood Mac!  Styx! Marie Osmond! That's the kind of stuff I listen to now.  All that weird, experimental stuff - what wa...

The Country/Eastern Music of Shoji Tabuchi

If you are a good, decent person, you will not laugh at a Japanese guy sincerely trying to sing American country hits.  The Dalai Lama (or A...

Don Wardlow: The King of Casio Country

  Here's something unique: a serious, heartfelt tribute to funnyman "Weird Al" Yankovic, performed by one guy on an electronic...

Country Music For Fat, Unpopular People

Meade Skelton is an outsider musician from Richmond, Virginia whose album  " They Can't Keep Me Down" mostly deals with his ...

That's Athientertainment!

If Christian and religious music is a niche market, the pro-science/atheist music scene is practically microscopic. I bought a few CDs recen...

MUSIC FOR SENIOR CITIZEN CAFETERIAS

Here's a true slice of Americana.  Imagine: you visit a cafeteria-style restaurant in some place like Lawton, Oklahoma or Plainview, Tex...

White Men Can't Wrap

" Yo! - ladies and gentlemen - check this out! White rap is a centuries-old tradition; the original white rappers were square-dance c...

Benny Hill - The Ultimate Collection

Poor Benny Hill . Britain's most popular comic and master of funny songs and witty wordplay gets about as little respect as the equally ...