Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square / Various * Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square / Various [New CD] 2015-02-02 ' he wrote to his

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Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)

it marked a defining moment in independent music: genre-blurring

An indie/country concept album

We Mean It

Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square / Various * Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square / Various [New CD] 2015-02-02 ' he wrote to hisDick Spottswood is a legendary musicologist with deep knowledge of early jazz, blues, international, and vernacular American music from the first half of the 20th Century. He has contributed notes and transfers of records from his collection to hundreds of influential reissue albums on many labels over the decades. Spottswood teams up with Tompkins Square to offer a selective view of our favorite 78 rpm sides from 1925, a pivotal year in the