Whats on your turntable tonight?

New View ~ New John Handy Quintet
New Songs For Old Friends ~ Tom Paxton
Another World ~ Stan Getz
Lovetune For Vacuum ~ Soap and Skin
More Love Songs ~ Loudon Wainwright lll

Phoebe Snow. 1974. Shelter records. $4. Fabulous. Clean, crisp, transparent recording (before they destroyed music with digital.)

"Party" Aldous Harding. #Interesting. 

1959 Decca Porgy and Bess with Sammy Davis Jr and Carmin McRae. It is not in good condition. It is clean but it had not been treated well. Who cares? The sound (notwithstanding Sammy's strident vocals) is fantastic. The stage depth is insane and the balance is spot on. No bloated bass. Brass is colorful and mass strings are sweet as a nut. There is nothing in digital that can touch what we have thrown away. 

--1976 Japanese pressing Denon PCM early digital recording of Beethoven Symphony No.9 Choral. It’s in mint condition. Shame it sounds so bad. Flat. Compressed. Unemotional. Crap.

-- Mozart String Quartets 14 and 15 KV387, KV421 Alban Berg on Telefunken. 1970. Silent vinyl. Beautiful recording. You can feel the cello bow rosin leaving the horsehair. Melodic and colorful. Sit up and listen insightful. It actually sounds like their old tubes! Maybe I'm imagining it.

Just bought this on Amazon for $5 and change. The Black Swans -Don't Blame The Stars. Check it out. 

On the Town soundtrack. Broadway 1971. On Columbia Masterworks. Clean dynamic detailed recording.  

Conor Oberst - Salutations
Joe Williams - A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry
Billy P. Corgan ‎- Ogilala
Current 93 - The Light Is Leaving Us All

These are truly special recordings and knock the socks of most modern recordings.
Mahalia Jackson - I Believe (Columbia 1960)
Benny Goodman - Trio, Quartet, Quintet (Victor 1956)
Shirley Horn Trio - A Lazy Afternoon (Steeplchase 1979)
The Seekers - The Best of the Seekers (Capital mono 1967)
Erroll Garner - Solitare (Mercury mono 1955)

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Buddy Tate /Al Grey - Just Jazz
Lydia Loveless - Who is Lydia?
Roy Harper - The Unknown Soldier (orig Harvest)
Purcell - Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (Archiv London 1969)

@slaw Can’t go wrong with Hope!
The McGarrigle sisters do a lovelier rendition of the song Heart Like a Wheel (they wrote it).

@slaw uh oh, "respectable?" That can’t be good. In fairness Linda does a nice job too.

The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
The Walkabouts - Travels in the Dustland
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine

Helen Humes ‎- ’Sneakin’ Around’

Buddy Rich Band - ’Buddy Rich Band’

Erroll Garner - Erroll Garner Gems (Columbia 1955) - even though it crackles, the piano on this is breathtaking.

Ketty Lester - Love Letters (Mono)

Wovenhand - Mosaic

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Marcy Lutes - Debut
Julie London - Love Letters
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends - A Porter’s Love Song
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
The Osborne Brothers - Up the Hill and Down
Marianne Faithful - Go Away From My World
Eddie Haywood - At the Piano