I saw Big Head Todd, Hootie and the Blowfish, The Meat Puppets and Freedy Johnston at a festival in Charleston, SC in the mid 90's. Great 90's pop groups.
Tonight I'm listening to Robert Plant-Pictures At Eleven then R.E.M. Automatic for the People.
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Neko Case tonight-Fox Confessor then Middle Cyclone. |
Listened to Zenyatta Mondatta earlier this evening. Great album. I really like "Voices In My Head" but invariably the loud reggae shout in the middle makes me jump.
Right now: Steely Dan-Two Against Nature |
Black Sabbath ,"The End". HR 24/96
ozzy
Ozzy is that you?
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Neko Case - Middle Cyclone. Again. Her music doesn't really hit me initially. But the more time I spend with it the better it gets. |
uberwaltz, I admire the breadth of your interest...but Alabama? ;-)
I just got Donald Fagen's "Nightfly" CD in the mail this afternoon. As expected the production quality is hard to top but not sure I like it as much as any of the other Steely Dan recordings I have. |
uberwaltz, agree about August and Everything After. That album sounded so original and groundbreaking to me when it came out. Still love it. |
Right now:
Oxford American 2003 Southern Music CD no.6:
Swamp Dogg, Del McCoury Band, Linda Ronstadt, My Morning Jacket, The Gourds, Memphis Minnie, R. L. Burnside, Willie Nelson, Will Kimbrough....to name a few |
My wife had dinner with Marshall Tucker once. |
Well, it was a baited anecdote, but I didn’t set it up well. There is no one in the band named Marshall Tucker, of course. They took their name from an envelope they found in a house Marshall Tucker used to live in. He was a blind man and my wife used to read on the radio for the Commission for the Blind. She met him at a commission banquet.
Edit: Wikipedia gives a different, and probably more accurate, account but the story is basically the same. |
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Ted Hawkins- The Next Hundred Years. CD. What a fortunate find! |
Nostalgia lane: BTO - Not Fragile. I think it was the first LP I ever got. A bit course and simplistic lyrics but still a great album. Wish I still had the LP. The cover was stamped so that you could feel the gears in the picture.
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@bdp24, my favorite blues song is by Little Walter: "Hate to See You Go". The Stones cover it on their recent blues album.
To your list I'd add Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, both Mississippi hill country blues singers. R.L.'s later stuff is a bit funky. I saw his grandson and former drum player Cedric Burnside play in a tiny (and most of the year, abandoned) movie theater in Clarksdale, Mississippi a few years ago. It was encouraging that there were a lot of college students in there who clearly knew his music.
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Tonight I'm listening to Mark Knopler's new album Down the Road Wherever and not really digging it. :-( |
uberwaltz, I like Knopfler’s Get Lucky (2009) and the Privateering double CD (2012). I love Tracker (2015), listening to it now. It is probably in my top 10 albums. So I was hoping Down the Road Wherever would be a continuation in that line. |
Traffic- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys |
Privateering CD #1-Mark Knopfler. |
Steely Dan-Gaucho, CD. The production quality is so good I even like the songs I don't like. ;-) |
Traffic-John Barleycorn. CD. |
Right now: Dire Straits - Communique
Earlier:
Rush - Moving Pictures
The Police- Ghost in the Machine
Traffic- John Barley Corm Must Die
Ted Hawkins- The Next Hundred Years
Streamed some Dave Mason too.
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The Teskey Brothers. Half Mile Harvest.
My wife is in here reading and she likes them too.
Neko Case- Middle Cyclone when my wife goes upstairs....she does not like Neko. |
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Dvorak, Symphony 9 'From the New World', Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnanyi. London CD.
Loud. |
Blue Mountian - Dog Says. From the 1990's. Brief but quality career in my opinion. If you like roots rock give them a listen. |
Led Zeppelin III. CD. Vinyl is worn slap out. |
Traffic-Low Spark of High Healed Boys.
Considering whole albums I prefer John Barleycorn Must Die. |
Animals-Floyd. My dog comes running into the room and stares at my speakers when Dogs comes on. I think he got some dog drool on one of my bass drivers. |
Well, I'm not man enough to admit that I bought an Air Supply LP.....and I never have.
But, a few months ago we were in a record store and my wife bought Don Henley's album with Sunset Grill and Boys of Summer on it. Pristine condition, plays like new. She also got Huey Lewis' album Sports. Also like new.
I never would have bought these albums but they are both pretty good and in perfect shape.
I on the other hand spent too much money on The Band's first album and Morrison's Tupelo Honey. Both have a few clicks and pops. I've never cleaned an LP. Probably need to learn how. |
That would be a good topic for a thread...stuff you like but don't like to admit it.
One of my all time guilty favorites: The T-bones' No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In
Listening to it now. |
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Leon Bridges- Coming Home, serious new R&B/Soul. Refreshing neo-retro. |
Cowboy Junkies - Lay it Down. |
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St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Half the City. I lie it but I'm not blown away. May take a few more listens. |
@bdp24, I'm sure you are well aware of Dankos solo stuff but others might not. Not sure how you feel about it but one of the songs, Sip the Wine, is not bad for a 'Band' flavored song. |
@mental , I can hardly stay in the room or car if modern country music is playing. But, I recently bought Chris Stapleton's Traveller CD. There are a few songs on there that smack of mod-country-pop that I don't like but there are also a few excellent songs on there. Tennessee Whiskey is the best of the bunch and is heavily blues infused.....which is why I like it.
Tonight, I'm listening to The Teskey Brothers Half Mile Harvest. Again. The more I listen the better it gets. Looking forward to their US tour this summer. |
@mental , someone here on Audigon turned me on to the Teskey Brothers. I knew I liked them from the first 30 seconds of the first song. The singer sounds like Otis Redding and they are very soulful.
In that genre also look into Vintage Trouble, especially 1 Hope St and Leon Bridges Coming Home.
Gary Clark Jr also dabbles in R&B but he is all over the place on his albums from raw acoustic blues to blistering Hendrix-like guitar work to R&B and even a little hip-hop vibe here and there. |
I peruse this thread and the ’what are you streaming’ thread a lot and I’ve been turned onto some good music. As someone mentioned in another thread, we are in a golden age of music diversity and availability.
The downside is that when I look up a lot of the recommendations mentioned here, most of the time I am underwhelmed. This is not a complaint or a criticism. We all have different tastes and that’s good. Plus, I’m not hearing much overtly bad music. Most of what people mention in these threads is well done.......just not my cup of tea. Just doesn’t hook me in.
Given the volume and variety out there this is no surprise of course but I’m just struck by how much good but not great (to me) music is out there. I’ve listened through quite a few whole albums by an artist and or multiple songs by an artist enjoyed them okay but have not been compelled to purchase them on CD....which is my measure of how good an album is to me.
The bottom line is that I have to preview a lot of music before I find something I want to buy and own. But there are a lot or worse ways to spend one’s time, right?
It also gives me some insight into other’s tastes in music.
Some of you guys are weird. ;-) |
Tonight listening to The Best of INXS on CD. Man that band put out a bunch of hits and even though a couple of them are dated the rest have held up pretty well. This CD also sounds quite good.
A true shame about Michael Hutchence. So many of these bright creative folks just can't seem to stay on the planet. Makes me think about Cobain and Shannon Hoon too. |
I'm listening to Mark Knopfler's Tracker CD. My wife says I listen to it every day...which is not true.
But, the more I listen to it the more I like it. The songs are fabulous. The recording and engineering are top notch, to the point that I consider it to be one of my reference CDs.
It is becoming one of my favorite albums. Right up there with Astral Weeks and a very few others.
I'm almost grieved that his most recent release is nowhere near as good. Not even good enough to buy in fact.
If you haven't listened to Tracker, give it a try. Get a glass of scotch, turn the lights down, get in your listening chair, close your eyes and give it a good listen. The deluxe version is worth the money as the extra songs are also quite good.
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Cowboy Junkies - Lay It Down.
I like a number of their other songs too but this is the only album that I really like as a whole.
I like her voice a lot but it is a bit one dimensional and does not seem as rich as someone like Natalie Merchant who has a similar voice but maybe more depth and range. |
boxer12, I will admit that I have not given The Trinity Sessions a serious sit down listen and even my experience with a number of their other albums is cursory. I should have said that their other albums didn't initially grab me the way Lay It Down did. So I can't really comment.
I'll give it a listen tomorrow night and try to remember to comment.
And speaking of alt country female singers, listening to Neko Case:
Fox Confessor now.
Middle Cyclone next. |
@boxer12, Just listened to The Trinity Session and I like it okay. Sweet Jane, Blue Moon Revisited and Misguided Angel are particularly good. Many of these songs are covers and they do a good job but they're own stuff on Lay It Down is really good.
One article I read says that Lay It Down is their first album where they are pretty much fully rock rather than alt country. Lay It Down has an alt country vibe so I'm not sure I agree.
Anyway, give Lay It Down a listen. So far, to me, its their best work. |
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Opus Two- Gershwin: Music for Violin and Piano
Well done but not really my cup of tea. My wife is in "my" listening room so I'm playing it for her.
She grew up with the pianist, Andrew Cooperstock and he and the violinist, Bill Terwilliger are friends of the family. Bill is the concert master of our new local symphony. |
Ending the evening with Floyd, DSOM. |
Leon Bridges - Coming Home. Retro R&B with gospel themes mixed in.
This is another one of those albums that the more I listen to it the more I like it. This young man is the real deal. Not a poser. Not an act. You hear it in the vocals, his band and especially in the lyrics.
I’d like to see him live. He's touring in my region in April but I'll be at a blues festival in Mississippi when he is here. :-( |
Traffic- Low Spark.....
John Barleycorn next.
Both on CD. Both well produced. |
The radio. Over the airwaves not the internet. WRBK. Little private station in the middle of nowhere. Listening to "On the Beach" with Charlie Brown.
Any of you folks know what beach music is? |
Boxer12, beach music is a regional variation of Motown type music from the southern U.S. coast, primarily the Myrtle Beach area. It originated in the 50's and 60's. The shag, which originated in Ocean Drive just north or Myrtle Beach is the dance associated with beach music. Bands like The Drifters, The Temptations, The Embers, The Tams, The Four Tops, The Chairman of the Board, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. Quite a few of these bands had Motown careers (The Temptations obviously) in addition to music they wrote and arranged as 'beach music' and some crossed over. Stax and Atlantic Records were major labels for beach music. Some famous beach tunes: Carolina Girls – General Johnson With this Ring – Platters I Love Beach Music – Embers My Girl – Temptations Sixty Minute Man – Billy Ward Under the Boardwalk – Drifters Miss Grace – Tymes Summertime is Calling Me – Catalinas Myrtle Beach Days – Fantastic Shakers What You Do To Me – Embers 39-21-46 – Showmen You’re More Than a Number in My Little Red Book – Drifters Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy – Tams She Used to be my Girl – O’Jays
Build Me Up Buttercup – Foundations Girl Watcher – O’Kaysions Some Kind of Wonderful – The Band of Oz |
It is a very regional and now 'oldies' sort of thing. Mostly just an interesting side note to Motown.
And now for something completely different:
Currently listening to Rush - Signals. Also not beach music. A good but not great album in my opinion. It is also the last Rush album I ever bought. I have not liked a single song they did since that album. Glad they were successful with subsequent albums and glad they have a fan base who likes those albums and I'm still very fond of Rush...just Signals and earlier. |
Aja-Steely Dan. CD. Never disappoints. |
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. CD. |
Get Lucky - Mark Knopfler......not Loverboy....although I did have that album once too. |
