Tompkins Square

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...

The Highlanders/Charlie Poole: The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929 [Digipak] *

CD / Tompkins Square / 2013-04-30

Tracks: Lynchburg Town; San Antonio; Richmond Square; May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister; Trip to New York, Pt. 1, A; Trip to New York, Pt. 2, A; Trip to New York, Pt. 3, A; Trip to New York, Pt. 4, A; ...
Artists: The Highlanders/Charlie Poole

Liner Note Author: Kinney Rorrer.

Recording information: New York, NY (1929).

Charlie Poole was the Hank Williams of 1920s string band music, and while he wasn't a particularly brilliant...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...

Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 5 [Digipak]

CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-11-13

Tracks: Temple Walk - Steve Gunn; I Think We'll Be Happy Here - Jordan Fuller; Lookout Point - Danny Grody; There Is a Place in This Old Town - Nick Schillace; Hemet Pine Singer - Will Stratton; John Fahey C...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Sam Moss.

Recording information: Brooklyn, NY; Diorama Land Studio, Hudson, NY; Ghetto Recorders, Detroit, MI; Hastings-On-Hudson, NY; London, England; Nada Sound Studio, Phi...continue...

Various Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936 [Box]

3 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-11-06

Tracks: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man - Clem Garner/Alfred Meng/Earl McCoy; Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic #2) - David McCarn/David McCam; I've Got the Chain Store Blues; Farmer Is the Man Who Feed...
Artists: Various Artists

Audio Remasterer: Christopher King.

Liner Note Authors: Nathan Salsburg; John Sullivan.

Recording information: Ashland, KY (02/08/1928); Atlanta, GA (02/08/1928); Bristol, TN (02/08/1928...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...

Bill Wilson: Ever Changing Minstrel

CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-09-18

Tracks: Rainy Day Resolution; Pay Day Give Away; To Rebecca; Black Cat Blues; Father Let Your Light Shine Down; Long Gone Lady; Following My Lord; Ballad Of Cody; Good Ship Society, The; Ever Changing Minstr...
Artists: Bill Wilson

Arizona Dranes: He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-09-04

Tracks: He Is My Story; In That Day; I'm Glad My Lord Saved Me; Crucifixion; I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go; It's All Right Now; Bye & Bye We're Going to See the King; Don't You Want to Go?; Just Look; John...
Artists: Arizona Dranes

Audio Remasterer: Christopher King.

Liner Note Authors: Christopher King; Michael Corcoran.

Recording information: Chicago, IL (06/17/1926-07/03/1928).

The story of Arizona Dranes...continue...

Harry Taussig: Fate Is Only Twice [Digipak] *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-08-21

Tracks: Rondo in D (On Southern Themes); C'est Magnifique (Fantasia in A); Childrens' Dance; Dritte Man Fantasia, Der; Electric Forest, Electric Trees; In the Corner of the Circle; Living in the City; Perpet...
Artists: Harry Taussig

Editor: Josh Rosenthal.

Photographer: John Upton.

When Tompkins Square Records reissued Harry Taussig's 1965 album Fate Is Only Once back in 2006, it was, for fans of American Primitive ...continue...

Mark Fosson: Digging in the Dust: Home Recordings 1976 [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-06-26

Tracks: Quarter Moon; Arrival of the Grand Picayune; Cosmic Hiccup; Frozen Fingers; Gorilla Mountain; Nancy's Waltz; Sky Piece; Back in the Saddle Again; Chillicothe; Frozen Fingers [Alternate Take] - (alter...
Artists: Mark Fosson

Mark Fosson's The Lost Takoma Sessions seemed to be the definitive statement on his earliest work upon its release in 2006, but then again, before the studio work there had to have been something arou...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...

Hiss Golden Messenger: Poor Moon [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-04-17

Tracks: Blue Country Mystic; Call Him Daylight; Drummer Down; Under All the Land; Westering; Pittsboro Farewell (Two Monarchs); Super Blue (Two Days Clean); Jesus Shot Me in the Head; O Little Light; Working...
Artists: Hiss Golden Messenger

Personnel: M.C. Taylor (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Yair Evnine (guitar); Scott Hirsch (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, bass guitar); Tom Heyman (pedal steel guitar); Nathan Bowles (banjo)...continue...

Various Artists: Aimer et Perdre: To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917-1934

2 CD / Tompkins Square / 2012-02-14

Tracks: Aimer et Perdre [To Love and to Lose] - Cléoma Falcon/Joseph Falcon & Cleoma Breaux Falcon/Joe Falcon; Polka Mazurka - Ukrainska Selska Orchestra; Ladies Quadrille - Happy Hayseeds; Je Veux Mari...
Artists: Various Artists

Audio Remasterer: Christopher King.

Liner Note Author: Christopher King.

Illustrators: Susan Archie; R. Crumb.

Translators: Christopher King; Gérard Dôle; Dorota Dutsch;...continue...

Various Artists: This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982 [Digipak]

3 CD / Tompkins Square / 2011-09-20

Tracks: He Will Fix It - Sam Williams/The Harris Singers; I Am Saved - Silver Harpes; Jesus Been Good - The Fantastic Angels; I Never Heard a Man - The Gospel Keys; Devil's Trying to Steal My Joy, The - Prop...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Mike McGonigal.

Introduction by: Peter Doyle.

Who would have thought that Tompkins Square would find a way to equal their stellar collection Fire in My Bones: Raw Rare...continue...

Frank Fairfield: Out on the Open West [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2011-05-31

Tracks: Frazier Blues; Kings County Breakdown; Someday You'll Be Free; Haste to the Wedding/The Darling True Love; Turkey in the Straw/Arkansas Traveler; But That's Alright; Poor Old Lance; Up the Road Somew...
Artists: Frank Fairfield

Recording information: Mad Labs Studios, Lakewood, CA.

Photographer: Jacqueline Lopez.

Frank Fairfield loves old 78s and he's learned how to replicate them as a performer, his high lones...continue...

Ran Blake: Grey December: Live in Rome [Digipak] *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2011-05-17

Tracks: Cry Wolf; Obama; Magic Row; Let's Stay Together/Brazil; Winter in Madrid; We'll Be Together Again; Field Cry; Nature Boy; Luciano; Mingus; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Inspirations: Abbey Lincoln
Artists: Ran Blake

Audio Mixer: Warren Russell-Smith.

Liner Note Author: Luciano Linzi.

Recording information: Casa Del Jazz (12/16/2010).

Director: Luciano Linzi.

Photographer: Dave Fabris....continue...

Ben Hall (Modern Country): Ben Hall [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2011-03-29

Tracks: Cannonball Rag; Guitar Rag; Alabama Jubilee; Mimi & Me; Windy & Warm; Lover, Come Back to Me; There'll Be Some Changes Made; Sweet Temptation; Oklahoma Hills; King of the Road; Every Time You Leave
Artists: Ben Hall (Modern Country)

Personnel: Ben Hall (vocals, guitar); Sammy Merendino (drums).

Audio Mixer: Tim Hatfield.

Recording information: Cowboy Technical Services Recording Rig, Williamsburg,.

Photograph...continue...

Amédé Ardoin: Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin 1929-1934 [Digipak]

2 CD / Tompkins Square / 2011-03-01

Tracks: Madam Atchen; One Step Des Chameaux; Valse De Mon Vieux Village; Les Blues De Voyages; Taunt Aline; One Step D'Oberlin; Valse De Ballard; Aimez Moi Ce Soir; Amadie Two Step; Valse Brunette; Sunset; B...
Artists: Amédé Ardoin

Audio Remasterer: Christopher King.

Liner Note Author: Christopher King.

Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott.

This two-CD set is the definitive compilation of the recordings of the ...continue...

Michael Chapman (Folk): Trainsong: Guitar Compositions, 1967-2010 [Digipak]

2 CD / Tompkins Square / 2011-02-22

Tracks: Last Polish Breakfast, The; Little Molly's Dream; Fahey's Flag; Rockport Sunday; Sunday Morning; Sweet Little Friend from Georgia; Elinkine; New Chord Blues; Uncle Jack/Looking for Charlie; Caddo Lak...
Artists: Michael Chapman (Folk)

Liner Note Author: Charles Shaar Murray.

Recording information: Phoenix Studios.

Photographers: Jim Marshall ; Barry Nettleton; Dave Robinson ; Graham Strout.

Serving as both acco...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: People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 [Digipak]

3 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-11-02

Tracks: Titanic Blues - Hi Henry Brown/Charlie Jordan; Wreck of the Old 97; Bill Wilson - Birmingham Jug Band; Crash of the Akron - Bob Miller; Fate of Talmadge Osborne - Ernest V. Stoneman; Mole Rachim, El ...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Henry Sapoznik.

Editor: Matt Laferty.

Introduction by: Tom Waits.

Imagine Harry Smith's famed ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC with a chip on its shoulder and y...continue...

Prefab Sprout: Let's Change the World with Music

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-10-25

Tracks: Let There Be Music; Ride; I Love Music; God Watch Over You; Music Is a Princess; Earth: The Story So Far; Last of the Great Romantics; Falling in Love; Sweet Gospel Music; Meet the New Mozart; Angel ...
Artists: Prefab Sprout

Audio Mixer: Calum Malcolm.

Liner Note Author: Paddy McAloon.

Photographer: Kevin Westenberg.

From Prefab Sprout's early-'80s singles up through their often brilliant but much mal...continue...

Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 4: New Possibilities

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-09-21

Tracks: Paranoid Cat - Chris Forsyth; Between Radnor and Sunrise - William Tyler; Miniature Dwellings IIi - Sam Moss; San Cristobal de las Casas - Nick Jonah Davis; Song for Eugene - Pat O'Connell; Our Home ...
Artists: Various Artists

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

Charlie Louvin: Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull Waycross GA [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-07-27

Tracks: Long Journey Home; Must You Throw Dirt in My Face; Kind of Man I Am, The; Hickory Wind; If You Love Me, Stay Away; Wreck on the Highway; Christian Life, The; I Still Miss Someone; Think I'll Go Somew...
Artists: Charlie Louvin

Personnel: Charlie Louvin (vocals); Charlie "Sonny" Louvin Jr. (acoustic guitar); Bill Kelly, Ben Hall (electric guitar, background vocals); Kevin Kathey (drums); Mitchell Brown (background vocals)....continue...

Various Artists: Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts: Rare And Unheralded Gramophone Recordings From Around The World (1916-1964)

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-06-29

Tracks: Hundred Pipers-Miss Drummond of Perth Sleepy Maggie - Pipe Major Forsyth and Drums; Yagi-Bushi, Yanre-Bushi - Kamemaru Sunakawa; Poor Convict Blues - Slim Barton; Pius Ogola - Akumu Odhiambo; Sondiat...
Artists: Various Artists

"About a century before recordings from around the world were a click away from anybody's laptop, it took some effort to record and collect indigenous...continue...
Liner Note Authors: Frank Fairfield; Mason S. Philip.

Editor: Frank Fairfield.

Photographer: Tommy Mose Abbott.

Translators: Juan Martinez; Jon Ward; George Vrettos; Dulcie Gonzal...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...

Roland White: I Wasn't Born To Rock'n Roll [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-06-01

Tracks: Kansas City Railroad Blues; Storms Are On the Ocean, The; Head Over Heels In Love With You; Doorstep of Trouble; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; Texas Gales; I Saw Your Face In the Moon; Prisoner's ...
Artists: Roland White

Audio Remasterer: Alan Crossland.

Liner Note Authors: Gene Parsons; Roland White.

Mandolinist Roland White is a bluegrass lifer. As a youth, he rounded up his siblings, including younger...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...

Giuseppi Logan/The Giuseppi Logan Quintet: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet [Digipak] *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-02-23

Tracks: Steppin'; Around; Modes; Over the Rainbow; Bop Dues; Blue Moon; Freddie Freeloader; Love Me Tonight
Artists: Giuseppi Logan/The Giuseppi Logan Quintet

Personnel: Giuseppi Logan (saxophone); Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet, trumpet); Dave Burrell (piano); Warren Smith (drums).

Audio Mixer: Ted Young.

Recording information: Magic Shop, NYC (...continue...

A Broken Consort: Crow Autumn [Digipak] *

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2010-02-09

Tracks: Day Reveals; A Mercy Kill, A; Like Rain; Mountains Ash; River, The; Beneath; Leaves
Artists: A Broken Consort

Composer Richard Skelton is A Broken Consort. Crow Autumn is the second A Broken Consort offering on Tompkins Square (the first was the strikingly beautiful sound study Box of Birch, issued in 2009); ...continue...

Various Artists: Face a Frowning World : an E.C. Ball Memorial Album [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-12-08

Tracks: Introduction - E.C. Ball; He's My God - Dave Bird; John the Baptist; Jenny Jenkins; Warfare; Plain Old Country Lad; Lord I Want More Religion; Early Bird Always Gets the Worm, The; When I Get Home I'...
Artists: Various Artists

Personnel: Brian Manley (mandolin).

Liner Note Author: Nathan Salsburg.

Recording information: Ball's Home, Rugby, VA (08/1959); Rove Studio, Shelbyville, KY (08/1959).

Photograph...continue...

Various Artists: Fire in My Bones: Raw Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel (1944-200 [Digipak]

3 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-10-26

Tracks: Peace in the Valley - Rev. Lonnie Farris; Rock and Roll Sermon - Elder Charles D. Beck; If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again - Rev. Anderson Johnson; I'm a Soldier - The Phillips' Specials; How Long ...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Mike McGonigal.

Photographers: Axel Kuestner; Mark Weber.

Fire in My Bones is an absolutely magnificent gospel music collection. Not because its quality is consistentl...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...

Tim Buckley: Live at the Folklore Center, NYC: March 6th, 1967 [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-08-25

Tracks: Song for Janie; I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain; Wings; Phantasmagoria in Two; Just Please Leave Me - (previously unreleased); Dolphins; I Can't See You; Troubadour; Aren't You the Girl; What Do Yo...
Artists: Tim Buckley

Liner Note Author: Izzy Young.

Photographers: Warren Russell-Smith; Izzy Young; Julie Marr; David Gahr; Nurit Wilde.

Occasionally a recording surfaces that represents not only a holy gra...continue...

Red Fox Chasers: I'm Going Down to North Carolina: The Complete Recordings of the Red Fox Chasers (1928-31)

2 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-08-18

Tracks: Arkansas Traveler; Honeysuckle Time; Jim & Me; Wreck on the Mountain Road; Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee; Mississippi Sawyers; May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister?; Pretty Polly; Blind Man & Hi...
Artists: Red Fox Chasers

Audio Remasterers: Christopher C. King; Marcos Sueiro Bal.

Liner Note Author: Kinney Rorrer.

Photographer: Forrest L. Smith III.

During their relatively brief time together as a r...continue...

Powell St. John: On My Way to Houston

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-07-21

Tracks: Hardest Working Man; On My Way to Houston; John Clay; Song of the Silver Surfer; Jerry Lightfoot; Take That Girl; Toby's Theme; I Loved the Way You Played the Piccolo; Maquiladora; Ballad of Travis R...
Artists: Powell St. John

Finding a home on the Tompkins Square label seemed only logical for someone like Powell St. John, a veteran of folk, rock, and psychedelia of all stripes in the 1960s. It makes further sense that he a...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...

Peter Walker: Long Lost Tapes 1970

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2009-03-31

Tracks: Meditation Blues; Camel Ride; City Pulse; Missing You; 102nd Psalm; Mellowtime
Artists: Peter Walker

Psych-folk acoustic guitar explorer Peter Walker, who turned heads with his 1966 debut album, RAINY DAY RAGA, may have taken a multi-decade break from recording after the '60s ended, but the tellingly...continue...

Charlie Louvin: Sings Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs [Slipcase]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-12-09

Tracks: Darling Corey; Wreck of the Old 97; Wreck on the Highway; Katy Dear; Down with the Old Canoe; Little Grave in Georgia, The; Dark as a Dungeon; My Brother's Will; Dixie Boll Weevil; Is This Destiny; M...
Artists: Charlie Louvin

Personnel: Ben & Kate Hall (vocals, guitar); Ben Hall (vocals, guitars); Chris Scruggs (vocals, steel guitar); William Tyler (guitar, guitars); Billy Contreras, Andrew Bird (fiddle); Matt Allen (organ...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...

Polk Miller: Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette [Slipcase]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-09-23

Artists: Polk Miller

Tributee: Polk Miller.

Personnel: Polk Miller (tenor, banjo); Polk Miller (vocals, tenor, banjo); Randall Graves (vocals, tenor); James L. Stamper (bass voice).

Liner Note Author: Doug S...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...

Charlie Louvin: Steps to Heaven [Digipak]

1 CD / Tompkins Square / 2008-09-16

Tracks: Love at Home; How Beautiful Heaven Must Be; Precious Lord, Take My Hand; There's a Higher Power; Where We'll Never Grow Old; If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven; Just Rehearsing; When the Roll...
Artists: Charlie Louvin

Grammy nominated artist Charlie Louvin presents Steps to Heaven, his 2008 album featuring ten traditional gospel selections and two classic Louvin Brothers songs. Produced, recorded...continue...
Personnel: Charlie Louvin (vocals); Alfreda McCrary Lee, Ann McCrary, Regina McCrary (vocals); Chris Scruggs (electric guitar, bass instrument); Derrick Lee (piano).

Audio Mixer: Mark Nevers....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...