Here is the newest addition to the year end tapes of the Ward-Blur collection. As always it consists of songs and artists that have affected me one way or another during the past year. This is the sixth official installment of this tape. I pass these out to friends and co-workers to interest them in music they probably would otherwise never hear.. Sometimes it works.. sometimes it doesn't. I try not to influence the listener except to say... "Hey - these are some good tunes and you should pay attention"!

Here is the cover of this years tape.

and the insert.


This tape consists of both new and old stuff as you can see. The Jefferson Airplane numbers are from "After Bathing At Baxter's" - Martha. and from "Volunteers"-Good Shepherd. The Jefferson Starship tune "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite" features a dynamite Jerry Garcia steel guitar solo. And if you listen to Bruce Cockburn's "Great Big Love" you'll hear Jackson Browne and Leslie(aka Sam)Phillips doing the harmonies. Of course as always the favorite group is Vigilantes Of Love. No one can match Bill and the boys both lyrical and musical entries that can not be topped. Chris Hillman's new CD has some good tunes and the whole CD is worth the money (if you like Byrds,CSN,SHF,Burrito Brothers,et.al). The old Todd Rundgren is still a rememberance of earlier times with simpler tunes and Son Volt's "Carytid Easy" is just heavy duty rock and roll. Mark Heard, I think, will be on every year end tape as long as I make them and the two tunes are pretty insync with my year. Last, but actually the first tune on the tape is Five Iron Frenzy (FIF) with "Superpowers". This is one of my son Jonathan's favorite groups and I really like this tune... Anyway, I hope you like this new entry into musical history, but remember- this is for private use only and you can order the CD's from either VOL's webpage (for VOL stuff) or CD now for all the rest.. Enjoy

You may obtain a copy of this cassette by E-mailing me at Mike4mus6@aol.com... That is - if you are interested in my year end tape...