Discovered Ronnie Earl last year and bought most of his "Broadcasters" albums. Currently, I still must frequently hear some tracks from "Now, My Soul", particularly "Double Trouble", with Kim Wilson on vocal and harp - his harp solo still knocks me out.
"Grateful Heart" is a tad jazzier than blues and has 3-4 cuts I revisit frequently. In fact, I use "Skyman" as a test piece when I swap cables, or roll tubes.
Ronnie's slow blues tunes are his signature to me, and although his guitar work is exceptionally flavorful, I dig his work as much for his keyboard players as his guitar work there. Bruce Katz or Dave Limina on piano OR B3. The bomb, through and through.
Jeff |
Econoline Crush: The Devil You Know
Great disk. Recently rediscoved it. |
Eva Cassidy, "American Tune"
HEM, "Funnel Cloud" |
Great thread indeed--Marcus Miller--great bass player. |
Stan Getz Quartet: Pure Getz, on SACD. |
Greg Brown, anything that Bo Ramsey played on/produced for him. |
Like Dweller, the Pentatone SACD of Julia Fischer playing Mozart Violin Concerti 1, 2 and 5. Superb sonics and performances. |
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall - really is superb |
The disk I listened to most this last year was Tried and True by Hanna & McEuen. Put out by AIX in DVD-A format.
Cafe Blue by Patricia Barber in SACD was a close second. |
Patty Griffin-Children Running Through. I saw her live and have been hooked. Great voice! |
People's Spring-Warsaw Village Band
It took me back to my polish roots and the days of punks concerts in the late 70's. Plus it sounds awesome through tubes |
great thread....chris isaak- heart shaped world |
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Keith Jarrett - "The Koln Concert" and "La Scala".
Every Tomasz Stanko cd I could get hold of.
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"under the iron sea" keane |
Madeleine Peyroux, Half the Perfect World
Ray Lamontagne, Til the Sun turns Black
Solomon Burke, Nashville
Metheny Mehldau
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet |
I'll have to say:
Nickel Creek 'Why should the Fire Die?'
CPR (featuring David Crosby and his son)
The Shins 'Wincing the Night Away'
Wilco 'Sky Blue Sky' |
*BETTY DAVIS "BETTY DAVIS"-2007 LITAR-PRODUCTION (LITA 0260)
*NAIL YOUNG "UNPLUGGED" - I like this live recording a lot
*FLAMENCO PASSION (Gino D'Auri flamenco guitars)FIM XRCD 023
*COLTRANE LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD AGAIN-(IMPD-213)20BIT
*BILL EVANS TRIO "SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD" - JVC XRCD
*AMY WINEHOUSE "FRANK" - (UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC B0008926-02)
*ROSA PASSOS & RON CARTER "ENTRE AMIGOS" (CHESKY - SACD291)
*BEST AUDIOPHILE VOICES -XRCD2 (XRCDPR-27901)PREMIUM RECORDS
*THIS IS THE MOST LISTENED ON THE WAY TO WORK -
EVERLAST "White Trash Beautiful" 2004, Island Def Jam - B00023N3CC.
& MILES DAVIS "KIND OF BLUE" FROM WORK.
HAPPY LISTENING |
In the Car: Utopia "Last of the New Wave Riders" a 7 cd box set of live Utopia. It has about 3 or 4 cd's worth of great performances of great music and the rest is decent to good plus.
At home: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins I love this record! Beautiful (if straightforward) jazz beautifully played and beautifully recorded on Verve.
Marty |
'Steingarten' by Pole, 'Dark days exit' by Felix Leband got lot of spins both on CD and Vinyl.
Also ' The lady and the Unicorn' by John Renbourne got probably as many spins since this is my reference disc to test the system. I end up finish the play almost always. |
Julia Fischer: Tchaikovsky violin concerto & Mozart violin concertos 1, 2 & 5.
Both SACD multi channel.
Mozart Complete Divertimentos - New York Philomusica CD-2.
Divertimento No. 16 in E-flat (for six winds) is utterly beguiling. |
I'll second Jacqui Naylor - Shelter and throw in Kurt Elling - Nightmoves and Jashua Redman - Back East. Favorite female, male and jazz instrumental CDs (right now). |
Rush Snakes and Arrows. These guy's have been around for more than 30 years and still rockin with the best. They are even up for a grammy this year. Keep up the jams. |
Sonya Kitchell "Words Came Back to Me"
Jack Johnson "Curious George Soundtrack"
Jesse Cook "Gravity"
Jacqui Naylor "Shelter" |
Well I am a throw back; the 1966 recording of Frank live at the Sands with Count Basie and his band; Quincy Jones arranger. |
While it was released late in the year, in Sept, I found myself listening to Chris Potter's "Follow the Red Line" probably every other day for a couple of months ... just an excellent CD |
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According to my iTunes it looks like a tie between Bruce Springsteen's Essentials, and Rebekka Bakken's I Keep My Cool.
Joe |
Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La |
Not bad FrankG!! I certainly can't complain (well, I could but no one would listen!). How are you? I assume your system is still top notch? |
Jackson Brown's Latest Live album. |
I too need new music. I just printed this thread so I'll be checking some of these out.
Hey Frank, how you doing? |
Probably because I have taken it out of my Truck. I drive a lot.
On my home stereo, probably Norah Jones. I need new music.
Russ |
Charlie Haden/Kenny Barron - Night and the City
Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden - Beyond the Missouri Sky
Stan Kenton's West Side Story
The Waybacks - From the Pasture to the Future
Infamous Stringdusters - Fork in the Road
Schoenberg - Gurrelieder
Brahms - late solo piano, op. 116-119, Stephen Kovacevich |
Sufjan Stevens' "Come On Feel The Illinoise." Even though I found this late in 2007, There was a two week period where I listened to this cd at least once a day. I haven't done that since my early years.
Next was Jane Siberry's "Bound By The Beauty." This is a cd I've had for years but only recently discovered how good it is.
Nice thread! |
Bassics by Ray Brown Trio |
Nick Drake 'Family Tree' is a nice eclectic mix |
Grant Green "Grant stand". |
My best guess is that this would be a 6-way tie:
1. Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns: "Let the Healing Begin"
2. Doc Kupka's Strokeland Superband: "Bumped Up To First Class"
3. Judith Owen: "Lost and Found"
4. Chris Jones: "Roadhouses and Automobiles"
5. Alexi Murdoch: "Time Without Consequence"
6. Tower of Power: "Oakland Zone" |
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Versatile Heart by Linda Thompson
Lucinda Williams by Lucinda Williams
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Dexter Gordon ......"One Flight Up"
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Herbie Hancock's "Gershwin's World" ... very well recorded mix of vocals, instrumentals, and a nice piano solo at then end. Real good stuff. |
For me it was probably "Neon Bible" by Arcade Fire. Wilco's "Sky Blue Sky" was a close second. |
Back in '07 for me it was probably 16 Horsepower, "Folklore"...Hey, didn't "In Rainbows" come out in January '08?
Yeah but they also released it as a download a few months earlier. I burned a copy and played the heck out of it in my truck. |
I don't remember listening to a CD . LPS only here. |
Mavis Staples, We'll Never Turn Back.
Also the Alison Krass and Robert Plant album.
I just love both of these. |
Neil's Chrome Dreams 2. But then I am almost finished ready Shakey, his to date biograpy, and am going through a Neil Young phase. |
Johnny Winter - Guitar Slinger. I consider it his most underrated effort. "I Smell Trouble" may be the perfect blues song, IMHO. |
Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat |
