Click to enlargePerry Playing Excerpt from "Hear Me Howling"

Listen to Perry Lederman playing “Impressions of John Henry”

This gets to be here because a year after Perry's death Joan got the first sea-mud sample and by selling one of Perry's guitars, she was able to buy the kiln that has produced her work for 15 years. (And when she opens new firings she plays his music.)


PL-1960

Click to enlargeHear Me Howling! Book and 4 CD set - Various ArtistsBlues, Ballads, and Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s.

4 CDs with a 136 page, 8 1/2 x 11" full color, hardcover book. Over 4 hours and 40 minutes of music 72 tracks, including 38 previously unissued. Over 150 photographs.

"Chris Strachwitz’s living room in the Berkeley hills was one of the secret centers of the world in the ‘60s and “Hear Me Howlin’” opens the dusty closet of tapes he collected in those years – a rare view from inside of one of the cultural command posts of a changing society." — Joel Selvin, Senior Pop Music Correspondent, San Francisco Chronicle