Hello friends. Welcome to another episode of Vinyl-O-Matic. I am Your Old Pal Will. This time around, we'll be continuing our journey through albums that begin with the letter B as in Bravo. Our listener challenge for this episode: What are your Top 3 Instrumental Singles? Like, say, "Popcorn" by Hot Butter, or perhaps the original by Gershon Kingsley, or maybe "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer, or maybe even "Theme from a A Summer Place" by Percy Faith. You decide and let me know in the comments located at vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e12 or shoot an email to will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. I'll share the results in the next Amplifier newsletter. Now, let us embark upon our voyage with a little love. Waaay back at the top of that set, we got things underway with Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy performing their rendition of Lungfish's "Love Is Love" from their collaborative album The Brave and The Bold on Overcoat Recordings from 2006. We heard from Dave Brubeck with his quartet and the assistance of Chamin Correa on guitar and Salvatore Agueros on bongo and conga for their interpretation of "Besame Mucho" recorded live in Mexico in 1967. After that, we had early 70s power couple Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge doing a fun cajun-fried number called Sweet Susannah from their 1974 Monument Records album Breakway. Rounding that set off, we heard "Mothball the Fleet", a track from Deerhoof's 2012 Polyvinyl release Breakup Song. Next up is a song that I strongly associate with as the background music for the KCCI TV community bulletin board that would be broadcast a few times a day when I was a kid. Welcome back to Vinyl-O-Matic. That was a piece called Mask performed by Berlin based trio B/B/S/ consisting of Canadian Aidan Baker on guitar, Italian Andrea Belfi on drums and electronics, and Norwegian Erik Skodvin on guitar. That is from a 2013 release on Miasmah called Brick Mask. Preceding that was George Benson with is rendition of Bobby Womack's "Breezin'" from the 1976 album also called Breezin' that ended up topping the pop, r&b and jazz charts. And now another blast from my youthful past. All right. Up at the beginning of that last set, we had the Blues Brothers performing Floyd Dixon's "Hey Bartender" from their double-platinum 1978 album Briefcase Full of Blues. Ten year old me was super into this album. After that, we heard the opening track from Silver Jews' 2001 Drag City album Bright Flight called "Slow Education". Still reeling from the loss of David Berman last year, but thankfully his music lives on. Tangentially related, we followed that up with Pavement and the anthem for a generation called "We Are Underused" off of their 1997 Matador album Brighten the Corners. Finally, we heard a song whose performance is attributed to Jackie Gleason, and I was really hoping it would be sung by The Great One himself, but alas no. This version of Cabaret's "Wilkommen" is just a mood music interpration that Jackie Gleason was know for at the time, and comes from a Capitol compilation called Broadway & Hollywood Showstoppers. Moving things along, I think you need some more Aidan Baker in your life. Heck yeah! That was Robert Pollard, Chris Slusarenko, and John Moen aks Boston Spaceships with a killer track entitled "Go For the Exit" from their debut album Brown Submarine. Prior to that, we heard the triumpant return of Marianne Faithfull with the title track to her 1979 album Broken English, her first major release since 1967. At the top of that set, we heard a piece by Aidan Baker entitled "Anna Broke De Dr Me" from Broken & Remade in which he created songs built from 4-8 second samples of instruments, featuring Aidan Baker on electric, acoustic and bass guitars, flute, vocals, and synth; Richard Baker on drums; Lucas Baker on trumpet; and Sarah Gleadow on violin. This concludes our travel for now. If you have any questions or comments, you can drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. Show notes, archived episodes and RSS feeds can be found by pointing your browser in the direction of vinylomatic(dot)com. When next we meet, we might actually make it to the end of Albums that begin with the letter B as in Bravo and head into Albums that begin with the letter C as in Charlie. Join me, won't you?