I haven't seen this mentioned before, so my apologizies if I missed it.
We just received a blues CD at KNON from the State of Florida's Division of Library and Information Services, Florida Memory Project. It has 17 tracks of blues selected from hundreds of hours of recordings between 1977 and 2002 at the Florida Folk Festival. Apparantly they are in the process of digitizing a lot of material and have released this disc as promotion for the project. There is a lot of good music from folks like Roy Bookbinder, Cephas and Wiggins, Etta Baker, Johnny Shines, and many more. The CD is also available as a free zip file download.
The CD is titled "Where the Palm Trees Shake at Night" and if you click on the CD cover on their audio page it takes you right to a link where you can listen to MP3s or download the whole CD.
http://floridamemory.com/collections/folklife/audio.cfm
There's a lot of other cool stuff to peruse on their site, so go when you have some free time.
We just received a blues CD at KNON from the State of Florida's Division of Library and Information Services, Florida Memory Project. It has 17 tracks of blues selected from hundreds of hours of recordings between 1977 and 2002 at the Florida Folk Festival. Apparantly they are in the process of digitizing a lot of material and have released this disc as promotion for the project. There is a lot of good music from folks like Roy Bookbinder, Cephas and Wiggins, Etta Baker, Johnny Shines, and many more. The CD is also available as a free zip file download.
The CD is titled "Where the Palm Trees Shake at Night" and if you click on the CD cover on their audio page it takes you right to a link where you can listen to MP3s or download the whole CD.
http://floridamemory.com/collections/folklife/audio.cfm
There's a lot of other cool stuff to peruse on their site, so go when you have some free time.