"I'm always on the look out for new music, but unfortunately finding music that you enjoy and sounds good isn't always easy. I've made a personal decision to just concentrate on music that I enjoy.
In any case, finding music that you'll enjoy is sometimes difficult. In an effort to make finding new music easier, I've subscribed to MOG and Pandora. It think that both subscriptions run me less than $20 a month. Although neither service can deliver high fidelity music, it sounds acceptable and it's an easy way to check out new music before you buy it."
This is an excellent way of becoming familiar. I do the same as I'm always hungry for fresh (to me) music. It also jogs my memory with there so much out there I tend to forget some stuff I was fond of at a time. If your very finicky on recordings maybe it wouldn't be for you. I fully appreciate those "perfect" recordings but I also have a certain amount of wiggle room there. I can still appreciate less than great. That being said it also depends how you like your system put together. Anything too clinical and you could be cursing the whole idea.
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Grant Green, Seven Classic (mostly blue note) Albums on 4 CD set from Real Gone Jazz label available from amazon for 17 bucks...I have a few Real Gone Jazz collections & they're great quality & insanely cheap. Beck, Morning Phase.....both fantastic! |
pehare - don't know Grant Green. Will have to check him out. Beck, "Morning Phase", though? An excellent recording of great songs. In fact that might be what I listen to next. Thanks for the input here. |
Another vote for Beck! Happy Listening.
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jafant, pehare - what Beck for you? All I’ve listened to are Sea Change and Morning Phase. I gather those are not typical of his work??? Let me know if anything else by him comes close to those. THANKS.
FWIW - tonight Robin Trower's "Twice Removed From Yesterday" is cranking. |
Justo Almario - Forever Friends Ahmad Szabo - This Book is About Words (Prefuse73) Mia Doi Todd - Cosmic Ocean Ship (She appears on a few Prefuse gigs) |
motors, dancing the night away. one of the great lost classics of the 80s--swelling, tight epic british rawk with that great lighter-lifting intro. i think cheap trick covered this.
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Johnny Clegg & Savuka - Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
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Christian McBride Trio-
Live at the Village Vanguard
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sam phillips, martinis and bikinis--i was always a little surprised she wasn't bigger--she's very musical. impeccable production, i assume by her ex-husband.
bobby sutliff, allsorts--an oddball covers album by the more somber guy from the jangle-pop gods, the windbreakers. absolutely crushes nick drake's "northern sky"
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Akiko Tsuruga, "Sweet and Funky". Wonderful. |
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I am looking for this CD;
Atzko Kohashi - Dualtone
anyone have a copy or know where I can buy it? |
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TY- ghosthouse
I am not really into downloads. I would prefer a physical CD. |
@jafant - can you do a download at all? Haven't worked myself with any hi rez downloads but certainly with WAV or ALAC I'm able to download, put it into iTunes and, from there, burn a physical CD. |
Loomis---I'm with you on Sam Phillips. I didn't know she had been with Sutliff, a great music-maker from the N. Carolina scene, iirc. She has excellent taste in men, T-Bone now being an ex as well. I saw her at The Roxy in the late 90's, with T-Bone leading an incredible band including the best bassist I've ever seen live, Jerry Scheff (Elvis, The Doors, sessions). OMG was he great; I saw some other pro bassists in the room, at the show for a Master's Class. She's a good songwriter and singer---smart, funny, and quite fetching ( I love her "wide-eyed innocent" look---very sexy). |
bdp, i'm with you on her wide-eyed innocent look.i looked up jerry scheff's discography--he's on an astronomical number of classic pop records (ron sexsmith, crowded house, richard thompson). also mink deville, whose best-of is my pick for the week.
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Yeah yeah, Mink DeVille! I saw him live once, also at The Roxy, and he was really cool---lotsa style, great voice. I love his version of Moon Martin's "Cadillac Walk". |
The Jeff Healey Band - See The light |
ghosthouse-
I have a friend whom is into downloading, I will explore this option. |
Good luck with it, j.
Some claim a burned CD sounds better than as bought.
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The Bottle Rockets - 24 Hours a Day Steve Earle - I Feel Alright Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth LL again, Step Inside this House. |
Sneaking one more in: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky. Check out "Impossible Germany" and the brilliant guitar work of Nels Cline. |
nice to see the bottle rockets get some love...
a couple of overlooked lps i've heard of late:
santana, caravanserai--much spacier/more ethereal than their earlier salsa/funk and thus as immediately engaging, but a great headphone listen
quicksilver, shady grove--a very strange, trippy record which is likewise much different than their bo diddley/bluesy stuff. it's dominated by nicky hopkins' piano, rather than by guitar--his instrumental "edward the mad shirt grinder" is a classic deep track, but the real standouts are the slow ballads like "flashing lonesome"
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Larry Young- new release of Paris recordings. |
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Always nice to hear from Mr. Patterson but for today's regrettable news. Indeed, RIP, Prince. He was a remarkable talent.
Still with us though much less celebrated: Glenn Hughes. Just listened to "Soul Mover". An excellent recording by an incredible vocalist and very good song writer. Strongly recommend his "Music for the Divine", as well as "The Way It Is". Thanks to Nutty for turning me on to GH.
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ghosthouse, have you listened to The LA Blues Authority vol. II? The entire albumn is GH. Check out track 1, "The boy can sing the blues". Your gonna love it.... Glenn also does some holiday music! https://youtu.be/xesCJ2B8OpsN |
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Anne Bisson- a very fine disc. |
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"Call of the Mystic". By Karunesh.
On music server. Have not spun a cd live on my system in years. |
Joanne Shaw Taylor, various cuts from downloads. The CD-The dity truth- on the song "Mud Honey" shows the gravel in her voice. This woman has got the blues. The live version of "Time has come" on YouTube shows her skill level. The recording get a bit hashy at times but worth a look/listen if your not familiar with her. https://youtu.be/kUNHIEX3XxAN |
Tom Petty, Hypnotic Eye Blu Ray Audio |
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terry reid, superlungs--incredible 60s/70s era singer--sounds like the template for jeff buckley, while his songwriting reminds me somehow of amy winehouse. his later, more-acoustic stuff shows him to be an estimable guitarist as well. pretty obscure now (tho cheap trick covered his "speak now" on their first record), but he was almost famous once--he turned down the jimmy page slot in led zeppelin and later deep purple.
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Binging on The Orange Peels, I guess you could say...
Square (1997)
So Far (2001)
Circling the Sun (2005)
Sun Moon (2013)
Begin the Begone (2015)
Great jangly power pop. Hooky as all get out. Melodic! |
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Big Tarkus fan. Favorite ELP Of all time.
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Paul Thorn,
Hammer and nail
Aint love strange
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Arbouretum, "The Gathering". Fuzz guitar rock for the apocalypse. Check out the final track, Song of the Nile. Think of it as music pissed off Ents are making while tearing down Saruman's tower in Lord of the Rings. |
Grateful Dead Dave's Picks (DP) 17.
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I had to go look. It is Gene Harris Live with the Phillip morris All Stars. I do still play my LP's, with Oscar Peterson's Live at Montreaux sitting next to it.
LP: "It's A Beautiful Day". I don't have the CD. |
In celebration of PRINCE, Morris Day. |
F.S. Blumm - Lighten E*vax - Parking Lot Music |
not a cd, but rather a book-- "rocks off" by bill janovitz. the author (whose band, buffalo tom, had a couple of great tunes) closely analyzes 50 of the stones' significant songs (most of the classics, but also some relative obscurities) and intersperses a lot of musical history and biographical data. it's very good rock criticism--he's obviously listened to these records obsessively and really knows what he's talking about.
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