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Dave's Basement Tracks Music reviews and playlists with a passion that good music has no expiration date. An internet/smartphone app streaming platform.

Our mission is simple; to share music in a creative way to entertain and to promote the musician. Dave's Basement Tracks started as a radio show on the defunct Ocooch Mountain Radio. After it's end, I considered only using Bandcamp links but too many of my songs were bought on Apple music or the old fashion way in retail or from the artist; thus the YouTube links were added. My extensive library dates back to LPs I bought as a teenager, and so the premise of "Good Music has No Expiration Date"

Yes, I go back to the days of making mix cassette tapes from vinyl, now that was putzy. Vinyl laying everywhere while I scour my memory and song titles for just the right tunes. Now I have imported many favorites into the library from both CDs & vinyl and of course my new in concert favorite to buy again is a Vinyl with Digital Download; best of both worlds. Something tangible and something searchable. Add in all my Apple and Bandcamp purchases, my creations, and bootlegs and the library stands today 19,610 songs or 53.1 days of music. Thus Playlists are easier and what this blog is about; playlists with THEMES.. we'll have so many I've built this index. Some unreleased themes will be listed too. We know we'll evolve as a blog but remember that it can be taken in small doses, and with music that never expires also can be discovered at any time. Use the Theme Index for ideas of which blogs to read, or use the Labels to find all the posts with your new favorite artist, and what I had to say about them. This blog will be ad free and while I'm tempted to add a Donate or a Patreon link, it would only to give me money to buy music. If you insist on sending me money, then make a suggestion of who I should spend the money on. Here's the PayPal link paypal.me/TheLuckyDogBand

10/09/2026

A wonderful album, check them out.

Well our Around Town YouTube playlist is now over 1,000 videos and it has five new memory videos from last Friday's conc...
10/06/2026

Well our Around Town YouTube playlist is now over 1,000 videos and it has five new memory videos from last Friday's concert at the The Sh*tty Barn with Chicago Farmer and Auralai ... Here's a snip of "Mattress" that is on Chicago Farmer's "Homeaid" album that will be in my dozen top albums of 2026.

Boy it's been a while since we've made it to the Sh*tty Barn; and w...

Was excited when I went to edit this video from Justin K Roth at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival... such a great song ...
10/03/2026

Was excited when I went to edit this video from Justin K Roth at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival... such a great song from Tom Prasada-Rao. Yes it's out in Bandcamp and it's on my wishlist and will be in a future playlist.

What do I tell you about the Wildflower Pavilion, pure aCoustic Mag...

Well Bandcamp has become my RECORD store to buy new vinyl, mainly because I also get a free digital download. Added mus...
10/02/2026

Well Bandcamp has become my RECORD store to buy new vinyl, mainly because I also get a free digital download. Added music to the library that I've seen live. Plus with Kelly Hunt and Kelley Smith, they'll be playing my house concert series and can sign them when they get here. Bluff View House Concerts of course. Hey it's BC Friday which means BC waives the artist fees, so your independent musician gets an extra 18% back. Great day to shop, you can use my collection as a starter recommendation. https://bandcamp.com/davideschipper

09/24/2026

It looks like I've uploaded all my Evanston Folk Fest and Great River Folk Festival memory videos, so I'm back to finishing my Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. Today I posted a few including amazingly this snippet of Steve Poltz covering a Grateful Dead song "Cassidy" How the YouTube police allowed it in a short is beyond me. So enjoy.

In a way I can't believe it... I'm done posting all my memory videos from the Evanston Folk Fest, check the comments for...
09/23/2026

In a way I can't believe it... I'm done posting all my memory videos from the Evanston Folk Fest, check the comments for the links.

09/22/2026

The Brudi Brothers were on the their last show of a tour run and headed back home to Seattle Washington. They were a lot of fun, and I got a full song and two snippets to remember them by. Yep sitting in a chair is frustrating, and one thing I didn't like about the EFF. They seemed to encourage blocking everyone's view would the whole front being roped off for dancing. Right 10% of the people dance, most just stand and watch blocking all the people who were there at the beginning and put their chairs down. Rocky Mountain Folks Fest does this the best; they rope off an area on the side for standing only. Oh you should see people get pi**ed if you stand in the sitting area too. RMFF is probably the BEST run festival we've been to for many reasons, but that one hits home in this video. Now saying that the full song we did get an attractive couple decide to dance, and to me that's perfectly fine. Of course I kept recording, they made a great memory and if you know them; let them know about the video. Plus, it's an awesome song about stacking FISH!

So ANOTHER in progress post as I make my way through editing my memory videos from Evanston Folk Fest. What a wonderful...
09/22/2026

So ANOTHER in progress post as I make my way through editing my memory videos from Evanston Folk Fest. What a wonderful festival, and we'll definitely consider the five hour drive during the opening weekend of NFL next year too. So there are 19 videos so far in the YouTube Playlist, and I've gone through my notes on Tift Merritt, Lucy Wainwright Roche, and James McMurtry in the blog post link in comments.

Rest in Peace to one of my legends. JD Souther I recently added another vinyl of his so I have his 4 first albums in the...
09/19/2026

Rest in Peace to one of my legends. JD Souther I recently added another vinyl of his so I have his 4 first albums in the library as well as both Souther-Hillman-Furay ones. The blog has 11 playlists with one of his songs. Feel free to browse at this link : https://davesbasementtracks.blogspot.com/search/label/JD%20Souther

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