My latest find. What's yours?

Mine is the group Galactic, specifically their release titled Crazyhorse Mongoose. They're sort of a jazz/funk sound. Recording quality is excellent and the music is just flat out fantastic.

I have found a group that plays kind of original rock and roll. ballads, to slide guitar to humerous lyrics. I started out with one and now have them all> The group is the Hosty Trio out of Norman OK (go sooners kicked seminole's butt) Can order from hosty.com. The cd's are all great music that can be listened to over and over. The cd 10lb hammer is country (be warned) I reallly dont like country but this is the funniest stuff you have ever heard.
Better get soon because hosty trio is now the hosty duo. Take a chance you will be glad you did.

"Molly Johnston"

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Cross between Holly Cole and a sultry voice of jazz singers of the past. From what I understand, she only has 1 CD out, but if this anything of what the future has in store...well, we will be in luck..

Check her out, she is acompagnied by some excellent musicians...

Matt

The Quincy Jones-Sammy Nestico Orchestra, "Basie & Beyond". My wife thinks that it sounds like Las Vegas music, but I like it (good players and a nice swing). The copy that I have is an album advance on CD, so I don't have any notes on who the players are. Also picked up a Billy Vera & Beaters CD. I don't know if they ever really made it big, but they were a great local LA band in the early 80's and put on a fun show. They used to let you walk in free at the Troubadour at around midnight and I would check these guys out every chance that I got.

Here are a couple of odd ball CD's that are both great. The first is "Nancy Wilson, Two Shows Live, at McCabes Guitar Shop", on Epic. The recordings were done in 1996 and this is the Nancy Wison, from Heart, playing acoustic guitar and singing with, at the most, a couple of backup singers on some of the songs. Good recordings as well. If you want to be gross consider it "Heart Unplugged". The second is "Jazz A Saint Germain", on the Higher Octave Jazz label. It is billed as being a tribute to the free spirit of Paris in the 50's and one of the selections is a duet by Francoise Hardy (a very poplular French singer for those who are not familiar with her) and Iggy Pop. There are many foreign artists on this CD that are new to me, but this one is a real killer and would make good party music as well. It was done in 1997 and the copy that I picked up was punched as a cut out, so look for it fast before it either fades away or becomes a collectors item.