We add new sound bites and features to Sonobeat.com regularly. During summer 2008, we added more than 55 new sound bites, updated or added a dozen artist listings, introduced Sonobeat Trivia, and added a full-length feature on KAZZ-FM (the small Austin radio station that spawned Sonobeat in 1967).

November 1, 2008

Al & Alec, new artist and sound bite of previously unreleased song Rebecca Lynn
Allen Damron, new artist and sound bite of previously unreleased song Requiem for a Balloon
The Lee Arlano trio: newsound bites of previously unreleased song Foggy Day and of released song School Daze
Country Nu-Notes: new sound bites of previously unreleased songs Night Life and My Shoes Keep Walkin' Back to You
Arma Harper: new sound bite of previously unreleased Saturday Afternoon Ditty Song
Larry Boyd & Group: new sound bite of previously unreleased song Back Home Again
Rex Sherry: new sound bite of previously unreleased song The Apple Tree

October 15, 2008

KAZZ-FM: a half-hour 1966 remote broadcast from the Club Seville in downtown Austin featuring host Bill Josey Sr.
KAZZ-FM: an air check of the Rim Kelley Show circa 1967
Fran Nelson: new sound bite of previously unreleased song Come Back Baby
Artist updates: newly discovered information from the Sonobeat archives

October 1, 2008

Three new photos on our interactive Wall of Fame (Flash required)
Bill Wilson: new sound bite of previously unreleased blues song Big Train
Plymouth Rock: new behind-the-scenes sound bite from the Memorandum sessions
Rick Dinsmore: new artist and sound bite from unreleased song Bill

September 15, 2008

Our new interactive discography page (Flash required)
A complete 1967 KAZZ-FM remote broadcast of the 13th Floor Elevators from the New Orleans Club in Austin

September 2, 2008

The Wall of Fame, featuring rare photos of people and places Sonobeat recorded in the '60s and '70s (Flash required)
Artist update: new scans of Mariani's Perpetuum Mobile album master tape boxes
Artist update: new scan of Austin Blues-Rockers recording session notes

August 26, 2008

The Lee Arlano Trio: sound bites from songs Satin Doll and Tenderly (from released album Jazz to the Third Power)
South Canadian Overflow: sound bites from unreleased songs Psychodelic and Why Even Try
Microphone test: an unusual sound bite of Sonobeat co-founder and producer Bill Josey Sr. testing a new mike

August 18, 2008

Johnny Winter: sound bites from unreleased alternate takes of Broke Down Engine, Help Me, and Forty-Four

August 12, 2008

Fast Cotton: new stereo sound bites from unreleased songs Out Like a Light and I'm Not the Fool You Made Me
The David Flack Quorum: sound bites from songs So What?? and Taste of Time (from released album Mindbender)

August 5, 2008

Austin Blues-Rockers: sound bites from unreleased songs Chicken Shack and It's Hard to Stop
Mariani: sound bites from three unreleased, untitled jazz songs

July 29, 2008

Roy Headrick: sound bites from songs That Old Dog and Little Blue Bird (from released demo album)
Wildfire: sound bites from songs Quicksand and Time Will Tell (from released demo album)

July 22, 2008

Jean Manor: new artist and sound bites from unreleased song Woke Up This Morning (My Baby's Gone)
Rex Sherry: new artist and sound bite from unreleased, untitled song

July 15, 2008

Kingfish (Bob Brown): new artist and sound bites from two unreleased, untitled songs
Pall Rabbit: sound bites from unreleased songs Shores of Treachery and The Ship

Week of July 8, 2008

New Atlantis: sound bite from unreleased song I Know You So Well
Vita: sound bites from unreleased songs Santa Ana Freeway and The Parasite

Week of July 4, 2008

Plymouth Rock: sound bites of new stereo mixes from the 1969 Sonobeat 45 RPM monaural single release
Sonobeat Trivia: Sonobeat trivia quiz page 2

Week of July 1, 2008

KAZZ-FM jingles: new Sonobeat-KAZZ Connection page featuring a medley of the KAZZ-FM jingles from the '60s
Bill Wilson: sound bites from demo album songs When She Was Mine, 100 Miles Out of Denver, and The Merry-Go Man

Week of June 24, 2008

Jess Demaine: new artist and sound bites from unreleased songs Hand of Hurt, Your Kind of Man, and an untitled song
Geneva: sound bites from unreleased songs Nobody Else But Me and Mood Indigo
Nasty Habit: sound bite from unreleased song Listen
Whistler: sound bites from unreleased songs Jean Harlow and We Crossed the Line

Week of June 17, 2008

Afro-Caravan: three sound bites from unreleased Shades of Africa suite (from untitled, unreleased album)
Tom Penick: sound bite from unreleased song This Old Cowboy

Week of June 10, 2008

Ohio Express: sound bite from unreleased song Beauty So Deep
James Polk: sound bite from unreleased song Poor Butterfly (from untitled, unreleased album)

Week of June 3, 2008

Adobie Flatz: sound bite from unreleased song Trust
The David Flack Quorum: sound bites from songs Once I Dreamed and Chas'er (from released album Mindbender)

Week of May 27, 2008

Contraband: sound bites from unreleased songs Creepin' and Try
Sweetarts: sound bites from unreleased songs Summer Sushine and Lady
Sonobeat-KAZZ Connection: new "odds and ends" page

Week of May 20, 2008

Michele Murphy: new artist and sound bites from unreleased song Summertime and untitled, unreleased song
Skipper Young: new artist and sound bite from unreleased, untitled song
Genesee: new artist and sound bite from unreleased song Littlefield Fountain
Tommy Hill & the Country Music Revue: sound bite from unreleased, untitled song

Week of May 13, 2008

New Atlantis: sound bite from unreleased song I Got the Feelin'
Bill Miller Group (Cold Sun): sound bite from unreleased song Twisted Flower