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		<title>&#8216;Oh Michael, Look What You&#8217;ve Done : Friends Play Michael Chapman&#8217;- Available May 29th</title>
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Michael Chapman began his career on the Cornish folk circuit in 1967. Signed to the Harvest label, home to Pink Floyd and Deep Purple, he recorded four quasi-legendary albums. The influential &#8216;Fully Qualified Survivor&#8217; was John Peel&#8217;s favorite record of 1970, and featured future Bowie collaborator Mick Ronson. After decades of recording and touring, Chapman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tompkins Square Rolls Out Line of 78RPM Records</title>
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San Francisco-based record label Tompkins Square announces the first in a series of releases in the 78 rpm 10&#8243; vinyl format.
The first two will feature previously unreleased recordings from Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), and Ralph Stanley. Both 78&#8217;s will be released as a limited edition of 500 copies on Record Store Day, April 21, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiss Golden Messenger &#8211; out April 17th</title>
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&#8220;Mystical country, like an eerie yellowing photograph&#8221; &#8211; David Bowie
&#8220;A small but grand statement, recorded in a week, but achieving country-soul greatness&#8221;
- UNCUT * * * * stars
&#8220;MC Taylor writes folk music that is at once firmly steeped in tradition and immediately accessible.&#8221;
- NPR Music
&#8220;Fans of Will Oldham and Bill Callahan will find much to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/204</link>
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		<title>Aimer et Perdre : To Love &amp; To Lose Songs, 1917-1934</title>
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AVAILABLE NOW
Produced by Chris King (Charley Patton, Bristol Sessions, People Take Warning)
Original Artwork by Robert Crumb
This is one from the heart. The unique pre-war music of the Cajun bayous, the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine and Poland, and the American rural countryside has been collected to narrate the human odyssey of love gained and love lost. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin Keys &#8211; &#8220;Shawn-Neeq&#8221; 180g vinyl reissue out January 10th !</title>
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Originally released on the influential label Black Jazz in 1971, guitarist Calvin Keys&#8217; debut is a stone classic waiting to be re-discovered. The funky, deep grooves and Calvin&#8217;s singular guitar stylings, coupled with a heady collaborative feel that inhabits so many early &#8217;70&#8217;s jazz recordings, are all on beautiful display. 40 years later, Tompkins Square [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This May Be My Last Time Singing : Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM 1957-1982</title>
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Get ready for fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons and righteously ragged a cappela hymns! The music on this compilation was originally released on small label 45s, mostly in the 1960s and &#8217;70s. At least one-third of the records were self-released, paid for by a church congregation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/179</link>
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		<title>To What Strange Place : The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View the Trailer 

Before the Golden Age of Americana on Record, immigrants from the dissolving Ottoman Empire were singing their joys and sorrows to disc in New York City. The virtuosic musicians from Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Levant living in the U.S. who recorded between WWI and the Depression are presented here across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/159</link>
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		<title>Spencer Moore, 1919-2011</title>
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Country singer Spencer Moore, age 92, born Raymond Spencer Moore on February 7, 1919, passed away on Sunday June 5, 2011 at Valley Health Care Center, Chilhowie VA.
Born into a family of 11 children on February 7, 1919 in the northwestern corner of North Carolina, Spencer was introduced to old-time music early on.  After [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/151</link>
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		<title>Frank Fairfield &#8211; &#8216;Out On The Open West&#8217;</title>
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“A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who’s crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it.”
—Greil Marcus
&#8216;Out on the Open West&#8217; is Frank Fairfield&#8217;s new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/134</link>
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		<title>Amede Ardoin &#8211; The Father of Cajun &amp; Zydeco</title>
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The father of Cajun and Zydeco is celebrated for the first time with his complete 34 recordings, all in one deluxe 2CD package.  Rare Afro-Creole rhythms are heard alongside blues and breakdowns in this exquisitely remastered and produced volume, the first in the series of Long Gone Sounds for Tompkins Square.  The Series will be [...]]]></description>
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