Sing Out tonight presents the incredible special program: | "Accordions Squeezing Out Sparks" | the all-accordion extravaganza previewing this weekend's | Cotati Accordion Festival |
Those Darn Accordions | We're An Accordion Band | Squeeze This! | Flying Fish |
Flaco Jimenez (with Dwight Yoakam) | Carmelita | Partners | Reprise |
Regina Carter (accordion: Will Holshouser) | Zerapiky | Reverse Thread | E1 |
Magnolia Sisters | Les Flammes d'Enfer (The Flames of Hell) | Apre Faire Le Boogie Woogie | Rounder |
Peter Rowan (with Santiago Jimenez) | Free Mexican Air Force (live at Freight Feb 2011) | They All Played for Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Collection (box) | Arhoolie |
Gus Viseur | Flambee Montalbanaise | Various: Cafe de Paris 1930-1941 | Music Club |
Joe Cornell (accordion) with Duke Ellington Orchestra | Accordion Joe | Various: Jazz Accordion Vol. 1 | Jazz Archive (EPM) |
Tin Hat Trio | Foreign Legion | Memory Is an Elephant | Angel |
Los Cenzontles with Los Texmaniacs (accordion: Josh Baca)k | Una Pagina Mas | Carta Jugada | loscenzontles.com |
Bruce Springsteen (accordion: Danny Federici) | Mansion on the Hill | Live in New York 2000 | Columbia |
Evan Lurie | The Spinster's Waltz | Selling Water by the Edge of the River | Island |
Bruce Springsteen (accordion: Charlie Giordano) | Sleepy Joe's Cafe | Western Stars | Columbia |
Neil Young (accordion: Nils Lofgren) | Helpless | Unplugged | Reprise |
Nino Rota | La Gradisca Si Sposa E Se Ne Va | "Amarcord" soundtrack | CAM (Italy) |
Emmylou Harris (accordion: Flaco Jimenez) | West Texas Waltz | Flaco Jimenez: Partners | Reprise |
Los Cenzontles (accordion: Maureen Karpan) | Le Fond de Culottes / La Danse de la Misere | They All Played for Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Collection (box) | Arhoolie |
Patrick Street | Music for a Found Harmonium | Various: The Celts Rise Again | Green Linnet |
Baguette Quartette (accordion: Odile Lavault) | Fetiche | Chez Moi | Baguette Quartette |
Weird Al Yankovic | My Bologna | Weird Al Yankovic | Scotti Brothers |
and now a roundup of some | of the musicians playing at | this weekend's Cotati Accordion Festival | |
Sourdough Slim with Robert Armstrong | Milk Cow BLues | Best Western | Roundup Records |
Big Lou The Accordion Princess | Who=Va Nagila (Hava Nagila and Pinball Wizard) | Big Lou's Back | Accordion Princess Records |
Mad Maggies | Pipeline | Flashbacks | themadmaggies.com |
Andre Thierry | Pine Top Boogie Woogie | Whole Lotta Something | La Louisianne Records |
Ry Cooder (accordion: Flaco Jimenez) | Viva Seguin / Do Re Mi (live at Great American Music Hall 1976) | `Show Time | Warner Bros |
Luiz Gonzaga | Sabido | Sabido | Iris Musique |
Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon) with Kronos Quartet | Five for Tango | Five Tango Sensations | Nonesuch |
Maria Kalaniemi | Kuun henki | Bellow Poetry | Alula |
Clarence Clay (accordion) and William Scott | Every Knee Must Bow | Clay and Scott; Standing on the Highway | Testament |
Toinho de Alagoas | Balanco da Canoa | Various: Brazil Forro: Music for Maids and Taxi Drivers | Rounder |