The Sampler for Tuesday 29 January 2013

A new album by Beck that exists only as printed sheet music; and an illuminating introduction to the music of Louisiana that accompanies a literary publication, the Oxford American.

Music details

Artist: The Perfectly Violent Dream
Song: Please Leave A Light On When You Go
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Song Preservation Society
Song: Just Noise
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Seattle Rock Orchestra
Song: Old Shanghai
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Jason Crosby
Song: Do We? We Do
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Portland Cello Project
Song: Mutilation Rag
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Karl Engelmann
Song: America Here's My Boy
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Max Miller
Song: Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: The Mover
Song: Don't Act Like Your Heart Isn't Hard
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Hanna Silver
Song: We All Wear Cloaks
Composer: Beck Hansen

Artist: Inch Chua
Song: Just Noise
Composer: Beck Hansen
Album: Song Reader
Label: Faber & Faber

Artist: The Gaturs
Song: Gator Bait
Composer: Turbinton

Artist: Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
Song: Old Man's Darling
Composer: Williams Sr.

Artist: Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns
Song: Lucky Devil
Composer: Jurzak

Artist: Ricky B
Song: Shake Fa Ya Hood
Composer: Bickham

Artist: Chris Stafford
Song: Parlez-Nous a Boire
Composer: Balfa

Artist: Dickie Landry
Song: Fifteen Saxophones
Composer: Landry

Artist: Robert Pete Williams
Song: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Composer: Williams

Artist: Margaret Lewis
Song: Reconsider Me
Composer: Lewis/Smith

Artist: Clarence Garlow
Song: Bon Ton Roula
Composer: Garlow
Album: The Sound Of Louisiana: Oxford American Southern Music Issue
Label: Oxford American