1. The Story by Brandi Carlile -just caught her show last week and love her even more now.
2. NUNSEXMONKROCK by Nina Hagan -this one is from 1983, but new to me. Intense, entertaining, absurd, totally addicting. An adventurous listen but not for the faint of heart. Perfect headphone escape. |
Tift Merritt - Traveling Alone
The most under-appreciated female singer-songwriter in America. This album is a treasure.
Neal |
Tift Merritt- The most under-appreciated female singer-songwriter in America. Not in my house... We are big fans. Tappin' my toes to the album right now... |
Don't Explain by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa |
Ben Howard's album New Kingdom is one for the ages. A true masterpiece! If you like singer song writers in the vain of David Grey you will love this album |
a couple i'll toss in:
talk talk--spirit of eden. always thought of these guys as middleweight duran duran wannabes, but this record, however, is incredible--trippy, intense, hypnotic. i bet radiohead spent alot of their formative years listening to this one.
aimee mann--charmer. like her last few, i didn't like this at first--too many synthesizers and bitter midtempo diatribes--but it's really grown on me. she's damn smart, if cheerless, and she still writes the best hooks in the business. "barfly" and "labrador" are great songs.
shoes--ignition. i expected that (like the recent dbs and feelies) this would capture the sound but not the essence of these 80s icons, but it's surprisingly good guilty- pleasure guitar pop, as if they haven't aged in the 30 years since they started making records. |
I'm the guy who's been posting about Flipper, and my sincere new favorite cds are John Foxx's Cathedral Oceans (all three) and the Stephan Mathieu/Taylor Deupree collab, Transcriptions. And also Matheiu's Radioland.
Also getting back into David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel. Old fave, new fave. |
Call me crazy but my favorite so far is Diana Krall’s “Glad Rag Doll”. Fortunately TBone Burnett didn’t muddy up the sound like he has a tendency to do. |
Ok, Raks....you're crazy. |
I gotta put in the mention of Mickey Hart...Mysterious Tremendum...Not to be discounted as his recording ability is always top notch... This is a good album through and through that will give your speakers some good exercise..and might even wow a few of you and your friends.. |
Raks - thanks for the DK call. Checked out samples on Amazon and just ordered it. |
LoomisJ - re Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden...
On your suggestion...
Heard it.
Hear it.
Get it.
Got it. |
ghost, since you're now a spirit of eden devotee, check out comsat angels "waiting for a miracle" and "sleep no more"; also roy harper's "hq". lemme know what you think... |
Marsalis and Clapton play the blues
great album and SQ is outstanding
the version of Layla is awesome
highly recomended
Al |
Joe Bonamassa - Live from nowhere in particular |
Tift Merrit - Traveling Alone
An underappreciated singer/songwriter who should be a star. makes me ill how unnoticed she is.
Neal |
Great Topic. I have been collecting several Richard Thompson's live recordings. His recent "Dream Attic" is very good but, I keep listening to his older live recordings "Live from Austin Texas" recorded in 2001. The live mix is outstanding. Also, Richard Thompson "Live in the UK'98" is yet another outstanding live performance. |
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Exocet, if you don't already have it, you might want to chase down "Two Letter Words". It's less well known than some other RT live recordings because it was (IIRC) originally exclusively available thru his website. I've got lots of RT's live albums going way, way back and each has its own charms, but - overall - this is my favorite.
Marty
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Concrete Blonde "Bloodletting", more imaginative than I remembered or expected, so good I have ordered more of their music. Haunting, cool from 1990. |
Bloodletting is on regular rotation on the turntable in my home. I first heard it when it came out on cd. It took me a while to find it on vinyl. |
Received "Mexican Moon" today. Of all of the ways I hoped this band would go, they Rock Out Heavy exactly in the way I hoped they would. I am not a metal head, I have a certain standard when it comes to Hard Rock.
Just want to say as someone who just "discovered" Concrete Blonde, they -are- the band many others attempted to be and failed. |
Nglazer: I don't know if she's the most underappreciated or not, but probably under-marketed to the main stream.
I saw her last night in Raleigh on her last show of the tour. It was filmed by UNC-TV for later broadcast. The rain was coming down all day, but majically stopped when she started to play.
Class, class, class, this lady is the real deal! Her voice is so powerful yet she has complete control. Her songwriting is superb, her band is strong and tight, she has it all. She performed a Joni Mitchell cover that was inspired!
Bought the lp at the show, listened to it this morning. I was surprised to find out, even though I didn't see it advertised or on the lp anywhere that it is cut at 45rpm. The lp has very respectable sound, slightly compressed but still gave me goose bumps listening.
Tift is one artist who will blow you away when you see her live! |
In the same type music as Tift, here is one that is even less well known that deserves more attention. Pieta Brown "One And All". |
Slaw- Thx. I'll have to check out Pieta Brown. Huge Tift fan. I love the way she can go from acoustic ballad to rock. When I saw her a couple of years ago, her band was outstanding. I also really seem to enjoy musicians who go back and forth from piano to guitar for some reason. |
EXOCET954, For Richard Thompson check out "Old Kit Bag," "Mock Tudor," "Shoot Out the Lights," plus his new release "Electric Trio." All great but not live. I don't think he has ever put out anything bad. |
Nikki Hill, "Here's Nikki Hill." Roots rock with some sax soul thrown in. Great live performer too. The cd sounds live in the studio to me. Kind of compressed but not as bad as a lot of others. |
Anais Mitchell, Young Man in America... stunning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jEPwuSYG6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2be56jIso |
Wildoats: R Thompson "Electric"... while the music is good, the sonics (lp) are a let down! |
Swampwalker: I recently saw Tift, her last show of the Traveling Alone tour. What a great artist, song writer, performer!!!! |
Check out my review on Amazon, (SLS) |
