Free Albums Galore

It's about time. I'm Marvin P. Vernon from Free Albums Galore. The people at FMU have been urging me to do a little blogging over here, so I thought I would take them up on it. For those who haven't stumbled onto my humble blog, Free Albums Galore (please don't call it FAG), I review and post links to full free and legal on-line albums and EPs over 15 minutes in length. No DRM and no registration allowed. So far I have over 1500 albums featured in any genre you can think of. I am especially interested in featuring albums outside the electronica and indie genres. Jazz, avant-garde, folk, world, and classical all get less notice in the Creative Commons arena but there is plenty of it around if you just keep looking.

As for myself, I'm a 9-5 working bloke in a very non-musical career but used to play rock and jazz professionally in the Los Angeles area. When people ask me why I changed career I tell them I got used to eating regularly and having a roof over my head. I still consider music the love of my life and use my blog as a way of paying back to all those struggling musicians who enrich us by their music.

So I hope I'll be able to post regularly over here. At the least, I will mirror my blog posts for the albums that you can also download from the Free Music Archive. Thanks, Jason for your insistence and your advice.

To start things off, here's a track from Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den Project, which was my first exposure to online music files back in 1995.