[ale] "podsafe" and free music

[Larry Johnson]

Oh, and one other thing.  If you do utilize this resource, seriously
consider donating money to the musicians.  The FMA has a paypal
mechanism for doing that.  I've budgeted a monthly amount to divvy up
among the musicians whose output I'm using (I think of it as a Free
Music utility bill)..  The quality of the music, combined with the
fact that many of these musicians are deliberately opting out of the
RIAA nonsense makes them deserve our active support.

Larry

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Larry Johnson
<larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know how many of you are already aware of this (I really
> wasn't) but while scrounging around for music for my podcasts I
> stumbled into the world of "podsafe" music.  The licensing is all over
> the map, from GPL inspired licenses, to Creative Commons, to public
> domain.  But there's a lot of excellent stuff out there in every
> imaginable genre.  The first site I've fully explored is the Free
> Music Archive at http://freemusicarchive.org/     Among other things I
> found 1930s Samba, 87 fantastic folk songs performed by Roger McGuinn
> as part of the Folk Den project (his rendition of "Follow the Drinking
> Gourd" sends chills up my spine), ideologically committed free music
> rock musicians like The Taxpayers, lots of electronic music, etc.
>
> If any of you haven't explored this resource (which is directly
> related to the Free Software philosophy) you should.
>
> Larry
>