The Cotton Exchange

02/12/2023

My tribute to Shane...

For the love of Shane MacGowan

07/10/2023

A deep dive into FREE JAZZ

“Music is the healing force of the universe.”— Albert Ayler

23/01/2023

My crazed story about David Crosby....

"Everybody's saying that music is love, everyone's saying it's love"-David Crosby

29/12/2022

Our best of 2022--Music, Art, Everything

24/05/2022

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT about the rise of PATTI SMITH and the making of the album EASTER from Mitchell Cohen's new book "Looking for the Magic" ft Bruce Springsteen https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/because-the-night?r=2g7co&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"People have the power to redeem the work of fools"-Patti Smith

20/05/2022

BRAND NEW RECORD FROM BIRDMAN>>>>>
https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/seedsmen-to-the-world?r=2g7co&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

14/05/2022

Today in my newsletter I focus on the new unheard recordings of John Lomax from South Carolina in the 1930s that have recently made available...and they are incredible.
Incredible stuff. https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/seeing-the-wheel-staying-in-the-field?r=2g7co&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

10/02/2022

The search for the long lost Derrick Morgan LP...King of Rocksteady...on today's Signal

“A book must be like an axe for the frozen sea inside us.”― Franz Kafka

10/01/2022

My tribute to Sam Chatmon on his 125th birthday...https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/too-wise-you-be?r=2g7co&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

“We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.”― Robinson Jeffers

31/12/2021

Today's Signal features my favorite things of 2021 including some blues..... Happy New Year everyone! https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/reflections-as-the-ball-drops?r=2g7co&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"And surely ye'll be your pint-stoup! and surely I'll be mine! And we'll tak' a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne."-Robert Burns