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Various Artists: Turn Me Loose: Outsiders of "Old-Time" Music [5/28]

CD / Tompkins Square / 2013-05-28

Tracks: Wagoner - Bill Skiles; Don't Get One Woman On Your Mind - Willard Hodgin; Bacon and Cabbage - Blind Joe Mangrum/Fred Shriver; Whale Did, I Know He Did, The - Mustard & Gravy; Chicken Reel - The Tweed...
Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 6: Origins of American Primitive Guitar [Digipak]

CD / Tompkins Square / 2013-04-30

Tracks: Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver; Buck Dancer's Choice - Sam McGee; Darkey's Wail - Riley Puckett; Cannon Ball Rag - Davy Miller; Way Down Yonder Blues - Lemuel Turner; Hutchinson's Rag - Frank Hutchins...
Artists: Various Artists

Audio Remasterer: Christopher King.

Liner Note Author: Christopher King....continue...

Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem Vol. 1-5 [6 CD Box Set] [Box]

6 CD / Tompkins Square / 2013-04-30

Tracks: Imaginational Anthem (2004) - Max Ochs; Bouba's Bounce - Brad Barr; Train Z - Suni McGrath; Lake Shore Drive (Slight Return) - Harris Newman; Dorian Sonata - Harry Taussig; White Mule III - Jack Rose...
Artists: Various Artists

Recording information: Berkeley, CA (01/2011); Big Wave Music, New York, NY (01/2011); Blue Wave Studios, Vancouver, BC (01/2011); Brooklyn, NY (01/2011); Cleantone Digital Audio, Roxbury, MA (01/2011...continue...

Don Bikoff: Celestial Explosion: Composia for 6-String Guitar [Digipak]

CD / Tompkins Square / 2013-02-26

Tracks: Kindler's Metamorphosis; My Baby's Bass; To Ellen; Riverside Park Blues; Bathing Prohibited In the River Styx; Ellipses of Your Mind, The; Earth (Revisited); Sonata #7, Opus 11; Today Has No Tomorrow...
Artists: Don Bikoff

Audio Remasterer: Gary Hobish.

Liner Note Author: Josh Rosenthal....continue...

Lena Hughes: Queen of the Flat Top Guitar [Digipak]

CD / Tompkins Square / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Pearly Dew; Under the Double Eagle; Letter Edged in Black; Blue Heaven; Galloway Bay; You Are the Only Star of My Blue Heaven; Spanish Fan-Dango; Knetucky Moon Waltz; Silver Threads Among the Gold; W...
Artists: Lena Hughes

Liner Note Authors: Christopher King; John Renbourn....continue...

Daniel Bachman: Seven Pines [Digipak]

CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-10-09

Tracks: Copperhead; Seven Pines; Sun Over Old Rag; Long Nights I; Mount Olive Cohoke; With Signs Following; 218 To Caledon
Artists: Daniel Bachman

Recording information: Philadelphia, PA (05/11/2012-05/19/2012)....continue...

Various Artists: Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-05-29

Tracks: Life On the Ceiling - The Black Twig Pickers; Expressway In the Rain - D. Charles Speer; Taht Time of Night - Lucinda Williams; It Didn't Work Out - Thurston Moore; No Song To Sing - Meg Baird; Prosp...
Artists: Various Artists

Tributee: Michael Chapman ....continue...

William Tyler: Behold the Spirit [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-11-22

Tracks: Terrace of the Leper King; Missionary Ridge; Oahspe; To the Finland Station; Cult of the Peacock Angel, The; Tears and Saints; Signal Mountain; Green Pastures, The; Ponotoc
Artists: William Tyler

Personnel: Joe McMahan (pedal steel guitar); Alex McManus (violin, brass, electronics, tapes); Helli Hix (violin); Tony Crow (piano); Ryan Norris (synthesizer); Scott Martin (drums, percussion, electr...continue...

Various Artists: Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-08-24

Tracks: Just as the Sun Went Down; Bloody War - Jimmy Yates' Boll Weevils; Faded Coat of Blue, The; Army Mule in No Man's Land - Coley Jones; Rainbow Division, The - Jimmie Tarlton/Tom Darby; Battleship of M...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Christopher King.

Recording information: Atlanta, GA (01/18/1928); Charlotte, NC (01/18/1928); Chicago (01/18/1928); Dallas, TX (01/18/1928); Memphis, TN (01/18/1928); New Yo...continue...

Various Artists: Beyond Berkeley Guitar [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-06-08

Tracks: Transmigration of the Old West, The - Aaron Sheppard; Dream of Distant Summer, A - Richard Osborn; Wrapped in Water - Trevor Healy; Struggle, Not a Thought, A - Chuck Johnson; Ourselves When We Are R...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Sean Smith .

Recording information: His Living Room (05/2009); Pacific Grove, CA (05/2009); The Heptagon (05/2009); The Wally Sound, Oakland, CA (05/2009); His Living Room (0...continue...

Shawn David McMillen: Dead Friends [Digipak] *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-03-30

Tracks: Walking Home (at the End of the Night); For Carrie Brown; Moth, The; No Time Left in This Place; Night Train; A Morning With Dead Friends; Frankensteins Kiss; Our Weather; Beladona Along the Brazos; ...
Artists: Shawn David McMillen

Shawn David McMillen's early-2010 release for Tompkins Square found the guitarist continuing to explore an aesthetic pitched between acoustic blues and a never-quite-real movie Western sound -- if the...continue...

Frank Fairfield: Frank Fairfield [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-09-29

Tracks: Nine Pound Hammer; Call Me a Dog When I'm Gone; Blackberry Blossoms, The; Cumberland Gap; Dying Cowboy, The; John Hardy; To the Sweet Sunny South; Train That Took My Girl From Town, The; Hesitating B...
Artists: Frank Fairfield

Much of the attention around California-based Frank Fairfield can be summed up simply enough -- the contrast of his young age with the fact that he plays old-time folk music, at least as seen through ...continue...

Ben Reynolds: How Day Earnt Its Night [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-06-09

Tracks: Skylark (Scorner of the Ground!); Death Sings; Virgin Knows, The; Risen; How Day Earnt Its Night: Dawn Hurt/Noon and the Nails in the Coffin/Dusk and Darkness (Revolution); England; All Gone Wrong Bl...
Artists: Ben Reynolds

Ben Reynolds' 2009 album for Tompkins Square again shows his quietly elegant skill on acoustic guitar. With the lovely "Skylark" starting things with, essentially, a perfect pop hook -- it's one of th...continue...

A Broken Consort: Box of Birch [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-04-28

Tracks: Sundering Path, A; Weight of Days; Something Fell; Elder Lie, The
Artists: A Broken Consort

A Broken Consort: Richard Skelton (various instruments).

Recording information: 06/28/2007.

A Broken Consort is the project name of solo instrumentalist Richard Skelton, who creates over...continue...

Max Ochs: Hooray for Another Day *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-11-18

Tracks: Hooray for Another Day; Ain't Nobody High Raga; Crows; Victor's Rag; Apple Place in Annapolis, An; Imaginational Anthem; In Christ There Is No East of West; Muse Sick; Oncones; Phil; Raga Puti; Stran...
Artists: Max Ochs

Personnel: Neil Harpe, Neil Harpe (guitar); Ty Ford (recorder); Laure Cerruli (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Ty Ford.

Unknown Contributor Role: Max Ochs.

Max Ochs, the cousin of the f...continue...

Brad Barr: The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-09-16

Tracks: Sarah Through the Wall; Bouba's Bounce; Maria La O; Still Shiver; War; Heart Shaped Box; Newst Fluffies; Gin Gin; Chopstick; Do I Have to Understand That?; Seranetta
Artists: Brad Barr

Recording information: Boston, MA; Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Tompkins Square Records has staked a claim for itself as the real home of acoustic music with new records by Charlie Louvin, Peter W...continue...

James Blackshaw: Litany of Echoes [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-06-17

Tracks: Gate of Ivory; Past Has Not Passed; Echo and Abyss; Infinite Circle; Shroud; Gate of Horn
Artists: James Blackshaw

Personnel: James Blackshaw (12-string guitar, piano); Fran Bury (violin, viola).

Recording information: No Recording Studio (12/2007).

James Blackshaw's previous albums featured his John...continue...

Peter Walker: Echo of My Soul [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-05-13

Tracks: Cante Gitano; Flore de Noche; Caminar por La Tarde; Manitas Juntos; Sacromonte; Cueva de Pepe; Eco de Mi Alma; Poema de Amar; Jaleador; Soleo; Cante en Medio; Por Rosa; Granadita; Bailarcito
Artists: Peter Walker

Peter Walker came up in the Cambridge,MA and Greenwich Village folk scenes of the Sixties.He recorded two albums for the Vanguard labe in the late...continue...
Recording information: "Studio A" Of "The Ark", Woodstock, NY.

After a hiatus of over four decades, Peter Walker returned to recording in 2008, and he could not have found a better home. Joshua...continue...

James Blackshaw: Celeste [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-03-25

Tracks: Celeste, Pt. 1; Celeste, Pt. 2
Artists: James Blackshaw

Personnel: James Blackshaw (12-string guitar, Farfisa, cymbals).

Recording information: No Recording Studio (12/11/2003).

This Londoner and his mesmerizing 12-string guitar push Richard ...continue...

James Blackshaw: Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-03-25

Tracks: Lost Prayers And Motionless Dances
Artists: James Blackshaw

Tompkins Square records continued its blitz of James Blackshaw reissues with the amazing single track epic LOST PRAYERS & MOTIONLESS DANCES. Originally released on a very limited run of CDRs, this jaw...continue...

James Blackshaw: Sunshrine [Slimline]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-03-25

Tracks: Sunshrine; Skylark Herald's Dawn
Artists: James Blackshaw

Personnel: James Blackshaw (guitar, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar, sarod, harmonium, organ, bells).

Recording information: No Recording Studio (02/16/2005).

What at first announces i...continue...

James Blackshaw: The Cloud of Unknowing [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2007-06-05

Artists: James Blackshaw

Personnel: James Blackshaw (12-string guitar, glockenspiel, cymbals); James Blackshaw; Fran Bury (violin).

Recording information: No Recording Studio (08/2006).

Guitarist James Blackshaw...continue...

Various Artists: A Raga for Peter Walker [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2006-10-24

Tracks: Day at the Fair - Peter Walker; Hot Fusion - Peter Walker; Spiralling Skeleton Memorial - James Blackshaw (live); Truly We Dwell in Happiness - Greg Davis; Cathedral et Chartres II - Jack Rose (live)...
Artists: Various Artists

Recording information: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (11/13/2004/05/27/2006); Goteberg, Sweden (11/13/2004/05/27/2006).

Photographer: Mirav Ozeri.

Many of the legends of acoustic guitar in ...continue...

Various Artists: Berkeley Guitar

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2006-08-29

Tracks: Augur of Deviation, The - Sean Smith; What Once Was Will Be - Sean Smith; Die Until Tomorrow, Sleep - Sean Smith; Lonely Tuesday Ramble - Adam Snider; Swamp Angel - Adam Snider; Little Death, The - A...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Authors: Larry Kelp; ED Denson; Larry Kelp; Bart Davenport.

Recording information: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA (12/01/2005).

The ghost of John Fahey, and the guitarists infl...continue...

Harry Taussig: Fate Is Only Once

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2006-06-06

Tracks: Baby Let Me Lay It on You; That'll Never Happen No More; Blues For Zone VII; Dark Town Strutter's Ball; R.R. Bill & Co.; Rev's Rag; Sugar Babe, Your Papa Cares For You; National Ragtime Stomp; Rondo ...
Artists: Harry Taussig

Originally released in 1965 as a privately pressed LP, FATE IS ONLY ONCE was the sole full-length release by the obscure folk-blues guitarist Harry Taussig. A former student of Piedmont bluesmaster th...continue...

Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 2

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2006-06-06

Tracks: River of Heaven - James Blackshaw; Future Shot at the Rainbow - Peter Lang; Suggestions - José González; Light Cycle/Tetrahedra - Jesse Sparhawk; Leaving the Apple - Michael Chapman; What B...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Josh Rosenthal.

Recording information: Berkeley, CA (??/1967-06/2005); Florence, MA (??/1967-06/2005); Fredericksburg, VA (??/1967-06/2005); Kampa Studios, New York, NY (??/1...continue...

Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2005-10-25

Tracks: Imaginational Anthem - Max Ochs; Bouba's Bounce - Brad Barr; Train Z - Suni McGrath/Various Artists; Lake Shore Drive (Slight Return) - Harris Newman; Dorian Sonata - Harry Taussig; White Mule III - ...
Artists: Various Artists

Personnel: Gyan Riley (guitar); Terry Riley (piano).

Liner Note Author: Josh Rosenthal.

Recording information: ??/1965-10/2004.

Photographers: Julie Marr; Paul Parks.

Arran...continue...