Posts by Andy Wagstaff

Check out some of the most exciting, newly purchased music for your listening pleasure.

Check out this list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs from our circulating collections for your listening pleasure.

Check out this list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs from our circulating collections for your listening pleasure.

This batch of new music will not only take you around the globe; but it will take you places back in time as well. Oh, and it will make you dance.

Take a little audio vacation with some of the most exciting newly purchased CDs from our circulating collections.

This batch of new music will not only take you around the globe, but back in time as well. Oh, and it will make you dance.

Take a little audio mini-vacation from your cubicle. Here is your list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs from our circulating collections for your listening pleasure.

A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.

A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.

A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.

It was 51 years ago to the day, June 16th, 1963, that Valentina Tereshkova left the earth aboard the Vostok 6, and became the first woman to enter outer space.

A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.

A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.

A periodic list of newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.

This list is a (sometimes) monthly compilation of my own personal favorite patron requests for music. I hope you will check out some of the great music that Library users have suggested we acquire! Provided are some great preview tracks for each. Just click on the titles to be taken to the catalog.

The Exciting Wilson Pickett (1966) by Wilson Pickett

An impressively consistent, upbeat, and danceable collection of '60s Rhythm & Blues. Every last track on this album is fantastic! In the '60s, Atlantic Records liked to send their artists southward to record, in order to get that "Memphis Sound." They'd go down to studios like Stax and Muscle Shoals to record with their incredible house bands. The resulting sound became known as Memphis Soul, and this record captures it at its finest. 

This list is a (sometimes) monthly compilation of my own personal favorite patron requests for music. I hope you will check out some of the great music that Library users have suggested we acquire!

Provided are some great preview tracks for each. Just click on the titles to be taken to the catalog.

Funky Highlife by C.K. Mann & Carousel 7

This is it. The best request of the batch! C.K. Mann paid his dues and polished his skills in the legendary Kakaiku Guitar Band of 

When thou commandest me to sing, It seems that my heart would break with pride; And I look to thy face, And tears come to my eyes.

—Rabindranath Tagore*

Hasu Patel’s collection of traditional ragas for sitar are little invitations to the world, invitations to reflect on the deepest concept known to humankind: The Divine — the nature of which we acknowledge, from our various traditions, exists somewhere beyond thought and imagination. They are exquisite examples of the evocative, 

This list is a monthly compilation of my own personal favorite patron requests for music. I hope you will check out some of the great music that Library users have suggested we acquire!

Provided are some great preview tracks for each. Just click on the titles to be taken to the catalog.

Best of Hooker N' Heat by John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat

It might not be common knowledge, maybe