Daddy Doodle's Guide to Free and Legal MP3 Files

October 1999

The links provided here will direct you to MP3 files made publicly available by the artists or their representatives. Buy their stuff if you can.

Welcome to the Daddy Doodle Guide to Free and Legal MP3's. This page was created to assist my readers with acquiring and playing MP3's. The links found on this page will direct you to sites I've discovered on the web that provide free and legal and cool MP3's. The MP3's recommended here are MP3's that I downloaded and liked. So go get 'em. Live a little.

Most of the MP3's you'll find via this page were made available in an effort to promote the artist. Therefore, if you find something you like, buy it. These guys and gals are not making a whole lot of money doin' the musical things they do.

October Recommendations: Classical music lovers will score big (pun intended) with guitarist Michael Lorimer at http://www.mp3.com. Mr. Lorimer has generously provided us with several great selections. Any one of them is worth the download time. Have fun. Jazz fans get a real treat with the availability of a free track by Jaco Pastorius at http://www.jazzpromo.com. I've been enjoying it for a couple of days now.

mp3.com -- This is the big house. Here you'll will find thousands of MP3's by guys and gals struggling to get recognized. A few of them are very good. Most are ok. You can get there on your own and find the gold for yourself, but I've done a lot of sifting and this is what I've discovered so far.

Bumblefoot - Rap meets Godzilla guitars. Tuff stuff with a Brooklyn smile. Get it. I ordered the cd from www.cdbaby.com and was not disappointed. Great stuff!

David's Secret - Kinda reminded me of Steve Morse with more rock and less of the other stuff.

Fat Amy - Good rock in the "alternative" vein. No duds on their page.

King's X - A great rock band. I own all of their cd's. 'nuff said.

Paul Thorn - He's got a winner with 'Ain't Love Strange', a killer blues tune.

Marc Pattison - Great player. Cool tunes. He'll bring back air guitar. Listen to him if you like the heavy stuff. Believe me, it won't be a waste of your time. One of my favorites.

Two Ton Shoe - New millennium funk grooves. Elastic bass. Smooth vocals with a hint of Stevie Wonder. Check out `Medicine.'

Cody Young - I liked 'Stop Meetin' Like This.' Good playin', good singin'. For country music fans and anyone else who can appreciate talent.

Daddy Doodle -- Last, but not least, it's me. Click on this link if you want a trip to Doodleville.

www.epitonic.com -- This site contains an eclectic collection of tunes, making it fun to explore. My favorite download was a tune by Francisco Aguabella.

www.jazzpromo.com -- Jazz Promo provides a first class selection of mp3's. Download all of them if you've got the time. At last count, there were 50.

www.bluesrevue.com -- Last time I checked they had six tunes available. If you are a fan of smooth blues, Eric Culbertson and Bernard Allison are the standouts here. Get 'em.

www.cdbaby.com -- This site promotes and sells recordings by independent artists. I was able to get in on one of their early deals for a free cd and enjoyed many of the performers on that cd.

MP3 Players

After you download some tunes you'll want to grab a player to listen to your brand new sonic treasures. If you've got Windows 98 you're set to go. You don't need a player. The Windows Media Player will work fine. But if you want more features or don't have Windows 98, you can get a fancy pants player from http://www.winamp.com. There are others, but this is the one I've been using and I've had no complaints.

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Enjoying Your MP3's

Consider connecting your PC sound card to a stereo receiver. Most sound cards have a line out or stereo out jack. If yours does, go to a store that sells audio accessories and purchase a cable that has a single stereo mini plug on one end and two RCA connectors on the other. Get the longest cable they have as you'll need to rum that cable from your sound card to your stereo receiver. Connect the mini plug to your sound card's line out or stereo out mini jack. Consult your sound card's owner's manual for the location of that jack. Connect the RCA connectors to an available stereo input pair on your receiver. Look for a inputs marked "AUX" or "CD" or "TAPE IN". If any of those are available, you're in luck. If you don't have any available input jacks you'll have to purchase a switch box that allows you to connect multiple sources to a single input RCA pair.

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