David Crosby sings on two tracks from Stephen Stills’ new CD “Live At Berkeley 1971” which is released today, April 28, 2023:

You Don’t Have To Cry

The Lee Shore

We've just learned of a Byrds Tribute album that was released in 2021 by The Floor Models, titled "In-Flyte Entertainment".

You can get it from all major outlets (CDs or Digital Downloads)

1. 5D (Fifth Dimension)

2. What’s Happening?!?!

3. I Come And Stand At Every Door

4. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

5. So You Want To Be A Rock ’n’ Roll Star

6. All I Really Want To Do

7. Wasn’t Born To Follow

8. The Bells Of Rhymney

9. Here Without You

10. Lady Friend

11. We’ll Meet Again

12. Chimes Of Freedom

The Floor Models: Gerry Devine (lead vocals, guitars) J.D. Goldberg (guitar) Andy Pasternack (vocals,12-string guitars) Steve Simels (bass, keyboards) Glen Robert Allen (drums)

1. The Virgin 2. With Tomorrow 3. White Light 4. Because Of You 5. One In A Hundred 6. For A Spanish Guitar 7. Where My Love Lies Asleep 8. Tears Of Rage 9. 1975 10. She's The Kind Of Girl 11. One In A Hundred 12. Here Tonight 13. Full Circle Song 14. In A Misty Morning 15. Rough And Rocky 16. Roadmaster 17. I Really Don't Want To Know 18. I Remember The Railroad 19. She Don't Care About Time 20. Shooting Star

And yet another « new » Roger McGuinn « old » participation on a various artists compilation.

This time, it’s a triple CD from 2018 titled “Appleseed's 21st Anniversary Roots And Branches”

Roger McGuinn plays and sings on a duet version of “John Riley” with Judy Collins.

---For more than two decades the independent, idealistic Appleseed Recordings label has been releasing new and archival CDs of folk/roots-oriented music by many of the genre's greatest performers.

Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, a deluxe three-CD, 57-track set, combines highlights from past releases plus many more by a Who's Who of musical giants including Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Natalie Merchant, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Paxton, and Roger McGuinn.

Moreover, there are nine new/previously unreleased songs by high-profile friends of the label, including Springsteen's "If I Had a Hammer", plus Tom Morello's "This Land Is Your Land", Tom Russell, Tim Robbins and John Wesley Harding.

More than three hours of music are packaged in a digipack that includes a deluxe full-color 32-page booklet with notes about each song and artist and a history of the Appleseed label.---

Disc One

1 Pete Seeger: Oh Sacred World
2 Bruce Springsteen: If I Had a Hammer (Exclusive New Track)
3 Tom Morello: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Exclusive New Track)
4 Tim Robbins: Well May the World Go (Exclusive New Track)
5 Joan Baez: I Wish the Wars Were All Over
6 Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Ani Difranco & Anne Hills: Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
7 Tom Russell: Across the Border (Exclusive New Track)
8 Johnny Clegg: Love in the Time of Gaza
9 John Wesley Harding and Corporal Quorum: Scared of Guns (Amended) (Exclusive New Track)
10 Sweet Honey in the Rock: Second Line Blues
11 Anne Hills: Needle of Death (Exclusive New Track)
12 Natalie Merchant & Friends: There Is No Good Reason
13 The Kennedys: Give Me Back My Country
14 Studs Terkel: Blessed Be the Nation
15 Tom Morello: This Land Is Your Land
16 Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome
17 Pete Seeger: Dr. King on Violence

Disc Two

1 Jesse Winchester: Get It Right One Day (Exclusive New Track)
2 Donovan: Poorman's Sunshine
3 Dick Gaughan: Land of the North Wind
4 Tom Paxton & Anne Hills: Follow That Road
5 Al Stewart: Katherine of Oregon
6 Jonathan Edwards: Surrounded
7 Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
8 Angel Band: Jump Back in the Ditch
9 Eric Andersen: Gonna Go Crazy
10 Tom Rush: What I Know
11 Sweet Honey in the Rock: Idk, But I'm Lol!
12 Lizzie West & the White Buffalo: Portrait of An Artist As a Young Woman (Thank You)
13 Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy Lafave & Arlo Guthrie: Stepstone
14 Tom Paxton: Looking for the Moon
15 Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt: Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat
16 John Stewart: There Is Love (The Wedding Song) (Exclusive New Track)
17 Jesse Winchester: Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding
18 Dick Gaughan: When I'm Gone

Disc Three

1 John Gorka: The Water Is Wide
2 David Bromberg with Levon Helm: Bring It with You When You Come
3 Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Roving Gambler
4 Tim Eriksen: Careless Love
5 Donovan: Wild Mountain Thyme (Exclusive New Track)
6 Roger McGuinn with Judy Collins: John Riley
7 John Wesley Harding: Canadee-I-O
8 Bernice Reagon Johnson with Kim & Reggie Harris: Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
9 Pete Seeger: Going Across the Mountain
10 Frank Proffitt: Tom Dooley
11 Guardabarranco: Asturias
12 Lila Downs: El Quinto Regimiento
13 Aoife Clancy: Are You Sleepin', Maggie?
14 Alec Stone Sweet: Mrs. Poer, or, the Concerto
15 Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin: Sow 'Em on the Mountain
16 Steve Young: Little Birdie
17 Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger: Cindy
18 Sharon Katz & the Peace Train: Sanalwami
19 Danny Glover & Rev. Robert B. Jones, SR: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
20 Kim & Reggie Harris: Wade in the Water
21 John Stewart & Darwin's Army: Bay of Mexico
22 Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane & Vedran Smailovic: Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Better late than never…I just found out that Roger McGuinn plays and sings on two CDs by Makem & Spain:

New Folk Records NRF 3522 (2014)

New Folk Records NRF 7522 (2016)

Jim Gordon, ex-drummer for Derek & The Dominos, died March 13, 2023

Gordon performed on hundreds of notable recordings in the 1960s, including Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys (1966), Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers by Gene Clark (1967) and The Notorious Byrd Brothers by The Byrds (1968) to name but a few.

Read the impressive list of his session work here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_(musician)

New album by Bennett Wilson Poole to be released in March

Album title = I Saw A Star Behind Your Eyes, Don't Let It Die Away

Details And Pre-Order Here:

https://bennettwilsonpoole.bandcamp.com/album/i-saw-a-star-behind-your-eyes-dont-let-it-die-away

« New » Flying Burrito Brothers live CD just released

Italian label Appaloosa has just released a CD with a live concert by The Flying Burrito Brothers recorded at Sage, Germany on October 30, 1985.

To avoid copyright problems, the album is credited to “Greg Harris Live With Sneaky Pete And Skip Battin” (omitting drummer Jim Goodall on the way).

You can order it here:

https://www.ird.it/negozio/Greg-Harris-Live-with-Sneaky-Pete-&-Skip-Battin-p529739423

Don't know what to say...except:

And then there were two (Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman)...plus two (Gene Parsons and John York)

We just learned of a « new » CD by the current lineup of The Burrito Brothers.

A gathering of Chris James, Tony Paoletta, Peter Young, Michael Curtis, Ron Guilbeau, Walter  Egan, Noah Bellamy, Larry Patton, Ronnie Rael, Troy Krusz, Pamela Des Barres and Will James commemorated the 50^th anniversary of the release of “The Gilded Palace Of Sin” in 1969 by performing all the songs from the LP at The Local, Nashville on November 9, 2019.

The recording of the event is available (CD or download) the Burrito Brothers website at

https://www.theburritobrothers.net/media