Rough, loose-limbed, warm, and exciting, The Kitchen Tapes is everything you'd expect from the Raincoats on-stage. Bolstered by the heavy percussion of Richard Dudanski and Derek Goddard, this recording pulsates, while the band dances around the beat tossing in shards of guitar, vocals, and violin. The liner essay by Greil Marcus is excellent. ~ John Dougan, All Music Guide

CD $16.13

CD $16.13

Red Allen and Frank Wakefield were recorded here by Wakefield's future student David Grisman in 1963. The Kitchen Tapes captures the two of them jamming and improvising informally -- at the time, Peter K. Siegel and Grisman were college students who had simply been allowed to capture one of Allen and Wakefield's private sessions, sitting in a kitchen in Hyattsville, MD. This was purely for Siegel and Grisman to learn from, but the tapes proved so valuable through the years ...   [ read more ]

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