Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings - Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick 58–71In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas andthe surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons,dancehalls, and each other's homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak,jubilation, and triumph. Robert "Mack" McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee ofthe blues, stepped into this world and became one of it's most

David Matthews has turned it into a playable piece

It has since become one of the most cherished and in-demand of all Modern Soul records

The tapes had been taken by some Malian students to East Berlin as part of a student exchange program

her battles with studio brass were legendary

some were elaborations on older ideas

Stars: Robin Williams

Simon & Garfunkel

Like glimpses of an unknown archipelago seen through layers of mist

a steady deep ecstatic low thud dictating the premises over metallic reeds gently strummed by the wind and Stella's commanding haikus generating human empathy

Alice goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors

These outtakes are now being released on a 7" to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Out of Step

Featured artists include vocalists Deborah Voigt