Michael Stutz
You might’ve noticed that there’s some specific, and maybe even unfamiliar, music categories in The Current Year. We’ve compiled this genre cheat sheet to show you around!
Oct 2, 2020
Lounge This is the place for lounge acts, big and small – from Tom Jones and Wayne Newton to the little act who played at that Holiday Inn off the new freeway extension back in 1972. Also any LPs of cocktail lounge music, instrumental or otherwise, that don’t strongly fit in other categories. A shop favorite!
Exotica Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Les Baxter form the triumvirate. You’ll also find lesser-knowns from The Surfmen to Gene Rains, lots of great Hawaiian and Polynesian music, as well as other exotic sounds from exotic locales around the globe.