Gina

(back cover detail) GINA LP, Orr Systems, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, no date

Folkways with Children

Rhythms of Childhood with Ella Jenkins, Folkways Records FC 7653, 1963 - cover design Ronald Clyne - here
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger, Folkways Records FC 7526, 1956

contramio

Contramio from the LP Tonspuren by Moebius, Sky Records, 1983
The kids can't get enough of this album---top spot in car rotation for the last few weeks.

GOTT IST DIE LIEBE

Marvelous Grace private press LP, Altona, Manitoba, no date (Kenneth Unger & Darlene Friesen, accompanied by their teacher Mrs. Dora Doell) (Thanks to M.Langlois so long ago.)

Winston Wuttunee

See The arrow by Winston Wuttunee, Sunshine Records, no date (mid to late 70's), recorded at Century 21 Studios in Winnipeg.
Winston Wuttunee was born in Saskatchewan and is still active today as a singer, lecturer, and comedian. This record is fairly diverse, with songs sung in English, French, and Cree.---It's this one song, Wunisca (meaning "wake-up" in Cree), that I keep coming back to:

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Second Hand Records by Suzie Smith, 2007

(silkscreen on found record jackets)
visit her here.

In Praise of Elwood Snock

Michael Hurley:

Armchair Boogie, Raccoon/Warner Brothers, 1971, (LP and homemade cassette) (Cassette lovingly dubbed by Mr. Hurley from a somewhat noisy vinyl copy) LP includes the comic Boone & Jocko in the Barren, Choking Land)

Hi Fi Snock Uptown, Raccoon/Warner Brothers, 1972 (LP and homemade cassette)

Parsnip Snips, Veracity (Germany), 1995, LP (unreleased home-recordings 1965-72)

snockonews

1/2 gentlemen / not beasts

Untitled book included with the 3LP box set 1/2 GENTLEMEN/NOT BEASTS by Half Japanese, Armageddon Records, 1980. (some copies came with a comic called Becky The Monkey)

Odetta

cover detail: My Eyes Have Seen by Odetta, Vanguard, 1959

prayers of a one man band

Bobby Brown:

The Enlightening Beam of Axonda, Destiny Records, 1972

Live, Destiny Records, 1978

Prayers of a One Man Band, Destiny Records, 1982

For the past fifteen years, Bobby has stuck with his vision of a "one man show", always creating new instruments and new styles of singing and playing as he went along. Bobby's voice is perhaps his most remarkable instrument. Covering a six octave range (possibly the widest range ever recorded) it is capable of creating almost any texture he desires. But his "one man band" orchestra is not to be overlooked. Originally composed of about fifty instruments it contained 311 strings and took three hours to set up and tune. Instruments varied from a tiny electrified spring to a monstrous fifteen foot electrified drone. Some were of original invention, while others were electrified versions of instruments found around the world. With this set, he recorded his first album THE ENLIGHTENING BEAM OF AXONDA. An extension of his doctoral thesis begun at UCLA, it contains a story about possible new discoveries in physics that could lead to technological advances that would in turn lead to a very unique and very optimistic view of the future. -from Live liner notes

3 records by California's Bobby Brown, released on his own Destiny Records label. Despite the low fidelity, Live is my favourite of the 3. It was recorded in his van ("before a small audience - his dog") after he disliked the results of a recording he made while opening for Fleetwood Mac (?!). The Italian label Akarma reissued The Enlightening Beam of Axonda on CD but I don't know whether it was done with his participation.

Is he still around? I hope his rig still exists somewhere.

also here and here (despite what's written, these records are not terribly rare or valuable)

Jubilation!

Jubilation by Daniel and Mary Dauvin (Franciscan Missionary Family), American (Psalms Division), 1973

(handmade album cover---marker on blank jacket)

3

Love and Other Crimes by Lee Hazlewood, Reprise, 1969

Padma Bhushan Pandit Ravi Shankar and Padma Bhushan Ustad Ahmedjan Thirakhwa, EMI/The Gramophone Company Of India Ltd, 1971

ESG by ESG, 99 Records, 1981