Favorite music

For those unfamiliar, here are a couple of links. Seeing and hearing them is a treat, at least for me.

Hope it brings joy to other Audiogon members.

"I Believe In You," Live Off The Floor

"Surely," Live Off The Floor

Shadorne,

I have both "Oh Mercy" and "Time Out Of Mind," hard for me to pick between the two, they are so different.

Yes, Lanois is Canadian, seems a good many of my favorite artists are from there.

Siddh,

It's Lanois's "The Beauty Of Wynona" that has left the greatest impression...I listen to it several times a year.

I agree, the LP is stunning. If you followed the link to "I Believe In You," about 38 seconds into the video the uncensored LP cover (non USA version) of "For The Beauty of Wynona" is framed and cleary visible on the wall behind Trixie.

That image is the work of Jan Saudek, the Czeck artist published by Aperture. I always wondered how Daniel choose that art for the cover. It's beautiful and disturbing at the same time.

My favorite track on that LP could easily be "The Collection of Marie Claire."

Jax2

I went to high school with Chris Whitley in Vermont - what a great guitar player. Looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Thanks for the links, Albert

I'll second Lanois's own, "The Beauty of Wynona", and, "Acadie"

Amazing you went to school with Chris Whitley, that made me look him up:

Whitley was born in Houston, Texas. His father was an art director and his mother was a sculptor. He spent years in Dallas, Texas and then Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont during his youth.

His parents "grew up on race radio in the South" and their musical tastes, which included Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, leading to Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, influenced their son. Chris learned to play guitar when he was fifteen.

I know Chris spent four years in Belgium from '83 on. Trixie (22 years old now) was born there.

Others have mentioned following Daniel Lanois work and discovering other artists. When I heard the album "Real Book Stories," I was immediately attracted and then discovered Brian Blade was part of this too.

Searching for LP of this work lead me to AAA in Germany who sells legal issues of half track, 15 IPS master dubs of this album.

After hearing it I gave AAA product of the year award at Positive Feedback. That same year Myles Astor gave The Tape Project the same honor.

Real Book Stories is Jazz, a natural for Brian Blade who has recorded with Joshua Redman, Wayne Shorter and Joni MItchell as already mentioned.

This work was released on LP in Europe on Quinton label. Here's a link to Quinton Austria that offer a few sound samples.

The master tape dub of "Real Book Stories" is one of my quality standards for listening. Real music and superb quality.

http://www.quintonrecords.com/index.php?id=16&tx_quintonrecordlist[release]=1

I bought a second copy of Black Dub at Amazon for $13.95. That's two 180 gram LPs plus MP3 download with free shipping.

I paid double at Acoustic Sounds after shipping for my current copy.

Also bought Allison Krauss "Paper Airplane," good album and a bit more tame on high frequencies than her Mo Fi release.

Jazdoc,

That album was my first experience with Daniel Lanois, I missed him on "The Band," not being a fan of their sound.

Richard Vandersteen gets credit for introducing Robbie Robertson and "Somewhere Down The Crazy River" to me. It was one of his favorite demo tracks. I bought two copies and still pull it out and listen after all these years.

It's approaching the 25 year anniversary of the collaboration of Daniel and Robbie on this LP and for me, it still holds up both musically and sonically.

Thanks Bjesien,

I don't think mentioned here but Daniel Lanois is also part of Peter Gabriel "So" and Harold Budd and Brian Eno ambient music such as "Pearl" from back in 1984.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-pearl-r799612

Daniel also produced and played on Bob Dylan "Oh Mercy," "Blood on the Track", and "Blonde on Blonde."

Dylan's comeback album, and a couple AMG refer to as "two of the most influential rock records ever released."

I loved Daniel Lanois art long before I realized his influence was all over the music I had chosen as my own.

Jazdoc,

I considered "Le Noise", I'm a fan of both Neil Young and Daniel Lanois. Granted I did not hear it properly but sample tracks at AMG and Amazon did not inspire me to buy.

A search for the LP turned up amazingly steep prices and I forgot about it after that.

Did you buy it? Like it?