About 45 years ago I would have put Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues on my list, but that's another phase that has passed.
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The artists/musicians that I cannot get enough has changed and continues to change with the passage of time. In the past it has included Springsteen and Dylan, but my last true obsessions were with Lucinda Williams and The Cowboy Junkies. At one time Lucinda’s catalog was so limited that I was buying a lot of CDs by other artists and cover CDs that she appeared on, in order to make CDs consisting of tracks that featured her voice. At about the same time I probably would have given Steve Earle honorable mention in that category. The phase of my life where I could not get enough of those last three particular artists ended 20 to 25 years ago, and since then I do not know that there are any artists that would meet that criteria, although there have been times I was listening to a lot of Linda Ronstadt or Patricia Barber or Jacintha or. . . . But I cannot honestly say that at this point in my life there are any artists that I simply cannot live without hearing, although there are several that I do enjoy listening to more frequently than others. |
I am not exactly sure what you are saying there, @mylogic , but what I was intending to convey is that any more it is not so much artists that I cannot live without, but certain CDs. I would probably list in no particular order of preference: Darkness On The Edge Of Town/Springsteen, Blood On The Tracks/Dylan, Trinity Sessions and Whites Off Earth Now/Cowboy Junkies, Simple Dreams/Ronstadt, Excitable Boy/Zevon, Fire And Rain/Jacintha, Running On Empty/Jackson Browne, Cafe Blue and Modern Cool/Barber, Sweet Old World/Lucinda, Train A Coming and I Feel Alright/Earle and probably quite a few more. But I don’t know that I am any longer obsessed with any artists. . On edit: I suppose I would add Guitar Town/Steve Earle and possibly The Ghost Of Tom Joad/Springsteen to the cannot live without list. I’d say Born To Run/Springsteen because the song writing is just so great, but the reason I wouldn’t put it on my list is that I do not do vinyl and I just have not found a digital copy that has very good SQ (at least not in my room on my system). I might add The Wild The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle/Springsteen to my list, simply for the song Incident On 57th Street. At one time Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde/Dylan would have made my cannot live without list, but probably not right now. I think I might add Lucinda’s self titled and her Happy Woman Blues to my cannot live without list, and I will also say that Black Eyed Man/Cowboy Junkies was once on that list, and after further thought, I’d keep it there, but if I could ever find a better SQ digital copy, I'd jump all over it. |