| Tompkins Square music
Face A Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album CD (2009)
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| Tompkins Square Records
Fire In My Bones: Raw Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) CDs (2009)
$21.45  
Not because its quality is consistently high -- it isn't -- but precisely because everything about it is so delightfully all-over-the-place. Fire in My Bones is an absolutely magnificent gospel music collection.
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| Ran Blake
Tompkins Square music
Driftwoods CD (2009) Digipak
$11.99
Although Ran Blake is primarily known for his own flinty compositions and improvisations, the New England-based pianist and educator has always had a soft spot for the standards as well, having first made his name in modern jazz circles with
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| Tompkins Square CDs
Imaginational Anthem Vol. 1-3 CDs (2008) Box Set
$22.69
After the freak-folk wave--with its emphasis on primitivism and weirdness over chops--crested in the mid '00s, Tompkins Square Records rose to the forefront of outsider acoustic music with a stream of releases and reissues by artists whose one common link
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| Polk Miller
Tompkins Square Records
Polk Miller And His Old South Quartette CD (2008)
$12.45
Polk Miller was a Virginian slave-owner's son and Confederate army veteran who led the African-American vocal group the Old South Quartette, backing their spiritual and secular tunes with his banjo and guitar. This collection features the 1909 cylinder recordings Miller
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| Shawn David Mcmillen
Tompkins Square music
Catfish CD (2006) Digipak
$11.09
This trippy acoustic recording from former Charalambides associate Shawn David McMillen consists of layered drones and a studied lack of momentum made exotic with the presence of kalimbas, gongs, flutes, and bells. At times airless and dense, it's in the
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| Charlie Louvin
Tompkins Square CDs
Charlie Louvin CD (2007) Digipak
$10.09 
As one half of the Louvin Brothers, Charlie Louvin made country music history in the 1950s with a steady stream of singles that mixed bluegrass, gospel, and Carter Family-like balladry. Alcoholic sibling Ira Louvin went off the rails in the
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| Ran Blake
Tompkins Square music
All That Is Tied CD (2006) Digipak
$12.95
Since the 1950s, Boston-based third stream jazz pianist Ran Blake has made some of the most cerebral piano jazz albums around. Most effective in a solo or duo format (his most famous records were made with the late singer Jeanne
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| Tompkins Square Records
People Take Warning! CDs (2007) Box Set
$43.49
Imagine Harry Smith's famed ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC with a chip on its shoulder and you'll have an entry point to the three-disc set PEOPLE TAKE WARNING. Fabulously appointed with fascinating, detailed notes and a handsome booklet, PTW houses
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| James Blackshaw
Tompkins Square CDs
Cloud Of Unknowing CD (2007) Digipak
$11.29
Guitarist James Blackshaw plays dramatic, spacious, heavily reverbed, solo acoustic guitar
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