What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report


I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.

This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".

128x128ghosthouse
Elements - Untold Stories
Live recording of a concert in Japan. One of several albums by Elements, a project of co-leaders Mark Egan and Dan Gottlieb (bass player and drummer, respectively, in the Pat Metheny Group).

Title track...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RwN7ZMpyiA&list=PLTvt5IZc8YFHhCRmK7zdZmUCYM2LB_jeZ
Roger McGuinn - "Back From Rio"

This may be my last time listening to it on CD. Just found a copy on LP here in the US and ordered it tonight. I hope the vinyl version is at least as good as the CD.
Corea, Clarke, & White - "Forever"

A 2 disc release that is getting better the further in I go.  Won't make it through the entirety tonight but definitely worth a return visit to hear the rest.  On Tidal.  
@jafant

Check out "Forever". The 2nd disc, especially, SMOKES. Mostly a keyboard led trio with some excellent "guest" guitar work by Bill Connors - it is a pretty exciting recording.

Right now preferring this to Chinese Butterfly but a wide margin.

Oh Yes, I agree - ghosthouse

the "Forever" set is very fine indeed.
Happy Listening!
“March Madness...........pure analog excitement”

Well, pure digital excitement. Whatever.
@maplegrovemusic 
What track the Lenny White solo on?  Almost (but not quite) through the entire 2 discs and don't believe I've heard one.  Thanks.
No problem mgm- 

This is the one you are referring to...

https://www.amazon.com/Returns-Return-Forever/dp/B001GSV3DS/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1...

I'll have to check it though I've not previously been a fan of Al DiMeola.

Thanks for the comments.
From Joan Osborne - Little wild one
To Gene Clark - Two Sides...
To Alison Krauss and Union Station Live
Real nice evening so far.
More to come.
Wishbone Ash, Blue Horizon
On Denon head phones, through the Oppo direct.
 
N
I’m absolutely obsessed with Lucinda Williams lately, and have been listening to her albums non-stop. My newest immersion has been into her West album, which is overwhelmingly great. It subtly seeps into your heart, deeper with each hearing.
bdp24

have you listened and compared the (2) versions of "Sweet Old World" ?
I picked up the 1992 CD last week.

Happy Listening!
Anyone wants to talk Lucinda Williams is welcome here. Had the opportunity to hear her in a small local theatre not that long ago. Enjoyed the show (apart from the political opining). Her backing band (Buick 6) was very good. They opened and did a fine job supporting her. Subsequently got their recording, Plays Well With Others.

Only have the original release version of Sweet Old World - not the recent reissue - but as with West, some very strong song writing on it...Pineola, a favorite. Unsuffer Me and Words are two other favorites from West. She is a very good lyricist (literary talent must be a heritable trait ;-)



@jafant, I’ve had the original Sweet Old World since it’s release in 92, and the new version is in my pile of new acquisitions, waiting in line to be heard. Too much music, too little time (left). I have to laugh when I hear old guys I know say "good" music isn't popular anymore. All they do is listen to the same records they’ve been playing since the 60's and 70's, pining for the good old days. No different than the adults did in the 60's, when the Big Bands became extinct.

When the music got pretty bad in the 70's (with some notable exceptions), the best musicians I knew began a journey of tracing the music we grew up on back to it's roots---the rural Southern Hillbilly and urban Jump Blues that Rock & Roll was forged from. I ended up liking much of it more than the 'holy" 60's music.

But really, nothing has changed. It has always been, and always will be: somebody writes a good song, a good singer with a good band records it, and we get to listen to it. We are SO lucky!

Guys, did you see the newly announce LSD Tour? Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and the Dukes and Dwight Yoakam. They have a stop here in Cincinnati on 6/20. Can't wait!
Looks like the tour isn't coming to the Northwest, damn it. I haven't seen Lucinda, Steve, or Dwight live in ages, Lucinda last at The Wiltern Theater on the Car Wheels tour (Jim Lauderdale opened for her, and then played acoustic guitar and sang harmonies during her set), Steve solo about ten years ago at Amoeba Records on Sunset in Hollywood, and Dwight I can't remember where or when. One of the best shows of my life was Steve with The Del McCoury Band at The House Of Blues, all of them standing in a circle around a single mic. Fantastic!
Jazz Pistols - Superstring

Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet

Track 2, "House Full of Bullets" (some sad relevancy to the national situation)....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q9ML4iknE
Right On! bdp24
post here when you give the newest 'Sweet Old World' a spin.
Happy Listening!
ghosthouse-
I have been wanting to pick up the Bruford/Towner/Gomez disc.
Happy Listening!
Yellowjackets - Timeline  
A solid, engrossing album; get to the end, start it over again.  
Not sure why it rated only 3 stars in The All Music Guide

Track 8, Like Elvin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0azalnK66E


@jafant 
If you want Bruford/Towner/Gomez "If Summer Had Its Ghosts", prices on Amazon are a bit much at $50-$55 for the CD. There's a mint-rated copy on Discogs from a 100% rated seller in Italy.  The price is about half that of Amazon though shipping is a chunk.  Sometimes you can negotiate, however.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2254169?ev=rb