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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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ECK! A MOUSE!

I think it's safe to say that, of all the thousands (millions?) of albums ever made, this is the only one of it's kind ever recorded...

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"I WANT TO PLAY ON THAT GAYWAY..." - POSTCARD RECORDS FROM THE 1962 SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR

"It's a postc ard!" "No, it's not. It's a record! Lemme play it" "No, it's a postcard! I wanna mai...

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