Julie Driscoll, Otis Redding and Loose Ends

One of the people talking more sense than most about "the digital music revolution" is Gerd Leonhard. His book The Future of Music is fairly well-written and offers a well- considered model of how the music biz is going work in the digital environment, and how artists, labels and multimedia conglomerates (Universal, SonyBMG etc...) can all make a living. Worth checking out...

Also worth checking out is the new Vitamin S website, the online home of improvised music in Auckland. Photos, gig guides, mailing lists and even our own theme song!

And for those who don't know, the mp3 blog the naughahyde life is now operating under the moniker "a bigger splash", so update your links brothers and sisters.

Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity - Tramp
From A Kind of Love in 1967-1971: Raven RVCD189 [Buy]

Otis Redding - Tramp
From The Dock of the Bay The Definitive Collection: Atlantic 9548-31709-2 [Buy]

Julie Driscoll, definition of a retrobabe. She could sing too.

PS. Thanks to MKD for the Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger vinyl (the best dog-eared birthday present I got this year), and to Auntie Susan in the UK for the Otis Redding CD, (from many birthdays ago) which I am only now beginning to truly appreciate! Good things take time.