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Music for "Tough Times"

When you're feeling lousy, or maybe just had a tough day, what one LP, CD, tape, etc. do you play to make you feel better? In my case it's Cowboy Junkies CD "The Caution Horses". Margo Timmins voice is at once soft and soothing, but also haunting and immediate. This is music that I can get lost in. What music do others use on occasions like this?
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hammergjh
156 posts
 
"Cause We've Ended As Lovers" by Jeff Beck off of "Blow by Blow". Phenomenal.
jonathanochi
20 posts
 
Joni Mitchell--"Both Sides Now"--especially the first version from "Clouds" (1969)and her whole first album "Song to a Seagull."

Bob Dylan--"Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" from Blonde on Blonde and the whole album.

Bach-Goldberg Variations especially by Rosalyn Turek or, secondly, Murray Perahia.

Beethoven--String Quartet in F Major op 135 (he was totally deaf). Ninth Symphony--Roger Norrington--how could you not be moved.

Any Mozart piano sonata by Daniel Barenboim, but Andras
Schiff is very lyrical and Mitsuko Uchida is feminine and precise.

Debussy--String Quartet in G minor--one of the great lesser known quartets, Guarneri or Budapest.

Katie Webster--"Swamp Boogie Queen"--great Delta blues singer and piano player!

Jon

henryhk
648 posts
 
Keith Jarret's piano solo records.
biomimetic
252 posts
 
Like the PJ and Nick Cave references... Flaming Lips after midnight on Sundays works for me. The Harder They Come and Jackie Brown. Are soundtracks too lame? Junior Murvin and Desmond Decker always make me feel better. Bob Mould. Jayhawks. Yo La Tengo can also work wonders. Too eclectic?
jwrobin
21 posts
 
Ian Anderson's Divinities.
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