Best music in 2021

slaw

Massey Hall and Young Shakespeare are excellent discs.
May Neil keep releasing all of his Vault recordings.

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Protest Songs by the Specials is a pleasant surprise. Quintessentially English ska band plays virtually no ska and covers a bunch of Americans and… it won’t win album of the year but it is genuinely enjoyable.

Hand Habits "Fun House"

@jafant, 

I ended up buying Neil @ Carnegie after all.

John Prine "Fair & Square"
vinyl

Brandi Carlile "In These Silent Days"

Another vote for Rhiannon Giddens “They’re Calling Me Home”. I also recently bought her entire back catalog. 

another vote for Prine and Rhiannon G. She is a mighty talent.

@slaw @jafant - what'd you guys think of NY's Carnegie Hall?  It's definitely getting a lot of play from me.

@rdk777 

I've only played lp 1. My copy has some slight ticking. SQ wise, I think it's not as good as the other two lps mentioned above. It's not as intimate. You do however get a sense of the venue' space.

rdk777
My CD copy sounds fine as an archive piece. Probably not the last word in resolution, still a very fine Aural experience.
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slaw
Precisely! this NY release will certainly give the listener a real sense of Carnegie Hall's venue space. Well reported.
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Kacey Musgraves "Star Crossed"

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore 

Gillian Welch/David Rawlings "All The Good Times"     vinyl

Old 57’s "Fight Songs "
ROG.   vinyl

Carol King & James Taylor " Live @ The Troubadour" on vinyl

Just got my copy of the 50th Anniversary Edition of If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby.  Preety good pressing - have not heard the original.

Awesome and interesting article. Great things you’ve always shared with us. Thanks. Just continue composing this kind of post.
 

@rdk777 ,

I compared my Classic Records version of If I Could Only Remember My Name to the new 50th and it (the 50th), won out fairly easily.

Just finished my first listen... 

Low "Hey What"

Kathleen Edwards "Failer"

vinyl

Dean Wareham "I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A." 

 

My Morning Jacket "S/T" 

2021/dbl lp

@slaw our tastes are remarkably similar.  I haven't thought about Low in a long time.  Had a Luna track come up the other day.....will check out the new DW.  

Thanks!  

👍 @mtbiker29 

Neal Francis - In Plain Sight.  Good luck standing still while this one is playing!  

30th Anniversary Achtung Baby. Sounds great.

Tori Amos "Under The Pink" 

Remastered half speed on dbl vinyl

slaw

 

New Year's Eve. It has been another wonderful year for us Music lovers.

 

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slaw

 

Happy New Year!  I am looking forward in reading your Best Of 2022 thread.

 

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This young lady is a name to watch. Reminds me of Tracy Chapman with here song writing and style. Give her a listen.

Loved that track @mckinneymike ! Thanks for posting!

Glad you liked her @slaw! I just ordered her on vinyl. Hoping the quality of the vinyl is good. This new release is killer!

Me too, just ordered.

She appears on the Our Native Daughters with Rhiannon Giddens.

@mahughes indeed! 

If you love the blues, this guy has got it!

 

jacqui naylor, the long game just released... excellent! I always love to listen this music on my audiophile headset while traveling