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	The Best of The Alternate Beatles To those who thought the Beatles couldn't be covered, I am offering a sampler of tracks - one representing each album - in the hope that it might win you over to the virtues of this downloadable 15-album collection of cover versions! From Sandie Shaw to Lord Sitar, from Ruben Blades to Swan Arcade, this CD-length collection hints at the wonderful range of covers available on each album.
	The Obscenity of Jelly Roll Morton Jelly Roll Morton's 'Make Me A Pallet on Your Floor' is a 13-minute phantasmagoric blues prefiguring the sexual fantasies of Gangsta rap. Morton's famous bravado is here at its most untrammelled. Morton esteems his own prowess, issues commands, threats, and swears. A lot.
	A 78s Playlist (The Nine Best 78s on Music Makes Me) I've got a present for you. It's a 45-minute playlist to introduce you to the 78s available on the site.
	Short Story Generator Just thought I'd share a short story idea generator I created in an idle moment that could well be useful for teaching creative writing to high school or college students.
	Persian Rug - Unusual Patterns in Jazz 1928-1934 There's no better find than an early jazz exotica find! Although some of the tracks, including the Teagarden, are hardly that 'unusual', there is a lot of intriguing instrumentation and rhythmic patterning here.
	The Young Irving Berlin - Volume I - The Brits The most astonishing thing about the songwriting career of Irving Berlin is its consistency. You listen to the songs on Annie Get Your Gun, and it seems unbelievable that Berlin wrote them towards the end of his career as a songwriter: there's no tapering off; every melody and lyric is right on the button.
	P Vert's Stickball in Stereo A crescendo of inane profanity that has the cathartic qualities of Picasso's Guernica.
	Talbot O'Farrell Five songs from the mellifluous tenor.
	Moroccan Holiday  A few audio clips and photographs from our trip to Morocco.
	My Other Site is a Different Sort of Thing Altogether This is a tawdry plug for my other site, where I'm dripfeeding recordings I've made. It's a mixture of mashups/electronic music and things I've recorded with friends.