Little Charlie & the Nightcats - Disturbing the PeaceThis 1988 outing is another seamless part of the thread that is this eclectic West Coast band, brimming with equal parts good humor and sensational playing. Charlie Baty tears into his guitar on the opener, "That's My Girl," and keeps the heat up throughout this set, turning in jazzy work on "My Money's Green," rockabilly licks galore on "She's Talking," and getting quite bluesy on the slow one, "V 8 Ford." Rick Estrin contributes explosive harp work

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Along the way such revered blues names as Boyd Gilmore

Bach / Zipperling - Sonatas Viol & Harpsichord

if his dissed disembodied spirit doesn't pursue the persuasions of a porn-obsessed paranormal pussycat and purloin a missing mystical manual

Sly's juvenilia has been treated with cynical disdain by a parade of disingenuous collections

Shakti's soulful

high-energy party music all their own by absorbing and reworking elements of Afrobeat

" "Don't Take Advantage of Me" and "Hoodoo She Do"

Barney Kessel

This 63-track 3-CD set comprises his releases for Decca during those years

Kate Smith was a singer very much in the traditional mode

The pieces are in essence a musical diary