Check out my review on Amazon, (SLS) |
Swampwalker: I recently saw Tift, her last show of the Traveling Alone tour. What a great artist, song writer, performer!!!! |
Wildoats: R Thompson "Electric"... while the music is good, the sonics (lp) are a let down! |
Anais Mitchell, Young Man in America... stunning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jEPwuSYG6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2be56jIso |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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". |
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! |
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. |
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. |
Concrete Blonde "Bloodletting", more imaginative than I remembered or expected, so good I have ordered more of their music. Haunting, cool from 1990. |
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.
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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. |
Tift Merrit - Traveling Alone
An underappreciated singer/songwriter who should be a star. makes me ill how unnoticed she is.
Neal |
Joe Bonamassa - Live from nowhere in particular |
Marsalis and Clapton play the blues
great album and SQ is outstanding
the version of Layla is awesome
highly recomended
Al |
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... |
LoomisJ - re Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden...
On your suggestion...
Heard it.
Hear it.
Get it.
Got it. |
Raks - thanks for the DK call. Checked out samples on Amazon and just ordered it. |
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.. |
Ok, Raks....you're crazy. |
Call me crazy but my favorite so far is Diana Kralls Glad Rag Doll. Fortunately TBone Burnett didnt muddy up the sound like he has a tendency to do. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
Don't Explain by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa |
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... |
Tift Merritt - Traveling Alone
The most under-appreciated female singer-songwriter in America. This album is a treasure.
Neal |
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. |
Genesis Revisited II is the current art rock equivalent of say the modern post WWII revival of Mahler spearheaded by Leonard Bernstein and others, except Steve Hackett is better qualified for the task than any of those guys were for Mahler in that Hackett is probably equally as artistically gifted (and daring) and actually helped compose and perform these classics originally!
I would normally hesitate to draw analogies between rock/pop and classical music historical scenarios like this, but believe Genesis Revisited II warrants such comparisons and that this music, like that of the Beatles, will live on for a long time to come.
The cover art (A Tower Struck Down?) is perfect and the packaging as a whole is top notch as well. |
I love threads like this.
Oh wait, I'm repeating myself. :-)
Then again, I get several recommendations a week from Richard (which are all very appreciated).
Genesis Revisited II - some GREAT cuts on here. |
Awww, shucks. Thanks for reviving this thread. Madfloyd and I have since become friends and this was our first little chat...the above posts where he basically tells me my musical interest sucks. Now we've moved on to the point where he tells me my musical interest's still suck, I tell him what gear he SHOULD buy and then he tells me that sucks too. Seriously though, he's a good dude and his life would be complete if he bought Spectral amps. Hehe:)
As for new music, very much enjoying AND IV(inertia)from Grischa Lichenberger on raster-noton. His other 2 releases, an earlier EP on raster-noton and another on Semantica, are also equally as amazing. |
The new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album is pretty incredible |
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Fear Fun by Father John Misty is a good one if you like Fleet Foxes. |
Now that it's been resurrected, I put in Ben Howard - Every Kingdom. |
Yes. Tp, "favorite" threads do not take much thought so i can
crank those suckas out!! Plus i can change my answers as i please on a
whim, an extra special bonus! |
Holy thread resurrection, Mapman !!!!! |
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Richard Thompson, "Dream Attic"- all new material performed live. |
Eileen Ivers "Crossing the Bridge" is another cd that I keep finding myself loading into my player. Sweet acoustic to hot electric fusion. Very cool mix of Celtic fiddle and all sorts of styles and influences, some interesting guest players. |
Madfloyd...The ironic thing is that I am Jewish and DEE is hardcore Christian. I hear much more in his works than preaching religion per say, more the pretty deep conflicts of the soul man struggles with every day. I could go on and on about that but won't bore you with my interpretations. Just wanted to clarify that preaching is the last thing I hear or do! Beyond the lyrical content is the musicianship which is as provocative and intense as the lyrically part of Woven Hand (or 16 Horsepower for that matter). Native American, Middle Eastern, Folk, Country, Goth, Traditional American, Blues, Punk...I hear it all in his stuff. Unique and truly art to me. Glad to know you are giving it a go. I love trying stuff that I do not know what to expect. Sometimes it takes a few listens to get it and sometimes I never do but it's enlightening to hear whats out there. |
Appreciate the response, Richard. It's good to know you truly do like the music and weren't, um, you know, preaching.
I've listened to it all the way through once (and just in my car) and will give it a couple more go-rounds before I truly judge. Lol, I didn't know what to expect - metal, fusion, trippy acid jazz...
I like taking chances. :-) |
Madfloyd...Intense in many ways. There is some spiritual influence in his writing for sure and there are some laid back pieces but to my ears, this is some of the most intense music being recorded. Many of the tracks are far from laid back. It has it all and is layered with nuances that I am still uncovering. I am totally bored with plain old guitar rock. Most of the stuff out there is empty, soulless blah but his music is full of passion and sounds like nothing else. I'm cool with you writing your opinion so no need to censor! It's a damn internet forum! Ninety percent of the records on this list do nothing for me. Just figured I'd throw that one out there for someone to discover. Apparently not you, which is fine dude! |
On a totally different note I just got Jane's Addiction Live Voodoo Blu-ray and from "Been Caught Stealing" on the disc rocks! |
I recently purchased Cyndi Lauper's new Blues CD based on Audiogon members recommendations. My first Lauper(sp?) CD and I've been enjoying it very much. |
"Woven Hand - The Threshingfloor
All I can say is this is intense."
Intense in what way - sprititualism??? It sounds pretty laid back to me (I'll keep my other opinions to myself). |
I like everything I have ever heard from Los Lobos, so it dosnt have to sound like "Kiko" to interest me. Again, I recommend the "Live at the Filmore" dvd, really captures them live.
Another cd I have been spinning a lot lately is "Zombie Pimp Cowboy" by The Man From Ravcon. Music inspired by Blacksploitation, B horror movies and Spaghetti Westerns. Not demanding music to listen to, but great variety and imagination. One guy plays everything, it's a fun listen! |
