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Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic / Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind / High Priestess of Soul
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First I used Stereophile disc to clean the system, then MFSL SACD Dire Straights Love Over Gold
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Herbie Hancock - Takin’ Off
Donnie Hathaway - Everything is Everything
Van Morrison - The Healing Game
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George Harrison Double album DSD, Japanese pressing CD
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"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" Bela Fleck
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Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble
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Bill Frisell - Blues Dream
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Leonard Cohen Double CD, Disc 2
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2nd-
Canonball Adderly - Something Else
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
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Cannonball Adderly - Something Else
Wayne Shorter - Juju
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Listening this morning to:
Chris Standring - Sunlight ; also Blue Bolero & Real Life
Patrick Bradley - Exhale; also Can You Hear Me
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Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidanada
Roberta Flack - First Take
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Jusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
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2nd
Les McCann and (Electric) Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
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Paul Simon - Still Crazy After all These Years
Les McCann and Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
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Janis Ian Breaking Silence
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Ministry - Dark Side Of The Spoon
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Healing Tide by The War & Treaty. W & T is the duo of singers Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter. The album was produced by the great Buddy Miller, Americana music’s MVP. Joining the duo on "Here Is Where The Loving Is At" are the sublime Emmylou Harris and master fiddler Sam Bush.
The album was recorded in Buddy’s fantastic home studio (there is a YouTube video in which Buddy is interviewed. You should search for it.), live to tape. And it is smokin’! Michael and Tanya are fantastic singers, and providing them with musical accompaniment are Buddy on guitar, Brady Blade on drums, Adam Chaffins on electric bass, Jim Hoke or organ, and Russ Pahl on pedal steel, dobro, and banjo.
A really, really solid album, available on CD only (I got my copy from Amazon). Another reason to own a digital player!
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Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
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Back at you, Nutty. Got lost and ended up here. Eggzakly what we are listening to at this very minute...on track 10, "I Don't Know What You've Got" (but it's not me!).
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The Rascals - Time Piece: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits
10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man’s Zoo
Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 4: Soul
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Happy New Year Ghosthouse!
Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Blues Album, CD Produced by best friend Joe Bonnamossa. A collection of cover tracks that really focus on J.S.T.'s vocal abilities. "Let Me Down Easy
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Alice In Chains Unplugged as I am sitting in my basement away from the fam on 3rd day Covid Isolation.🙄. Gonna be a real boring New Years Eve. Lame.
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Beth Hart
I have tickets to see Beth at the Taft Theater in Cincinnati, Feb 19. Should be a great show
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Miles Davis - The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
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Zuill Bailey - Bach Cello Suites
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Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Hybrid SACD)
Philharmonia Orchestra - The Nutcracker (complete)
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Mac McAnnally No Problem Here
I hadn't played this in at least a year. Amazing natural life like sound
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Barry White - Greatest Hits
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness’ First Finale
The J. Geils Band - Monkey Island
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Chris Standring - Don't Talk Dance; also, Electric Wonderland
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Eagles Hell Freezes Over Live
Mark Knoffler and EmmyLou Harris All the Roadrunning
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Alison Moyet - Singles
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
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Moody Blues Time Traveler disc 1/4 in the set
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Jeff Beck - Wired
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
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Compass Records had a Black Friday sale, with free shipping on orders of $50 or greater. I was ordering to get a coupla LP’s of Shannon McNally (my most recent female vocalist discovery. Only took me twenty years ;-) . To get the free shipping, I added a coupla CD’s to my order. One is only "merely" good---Sixty by John Cohan (he sings with too much vibrato for my liking). The other is great:
Transatlanticana by Bill Kirchen and Austin De Lone, my favorite "new" record of the year (new to me; it was released in 2016, CD only). De Lone’s name is one with which I am familiar, unlike his recordings. Bill Kirchen’s music, on the other hand, I am very familiar with. He was a founding member of and Telecaster player in Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, the late-60’s/70’s band best known for their hit single "Hot Rod Lincoln", fantastic guitar playing and solo courtesy of Kirchen. You may also be familiar with their " Seeds And Stems (Again)", the song’s lyrical hook being (....and I’m down to seeds and stems again ;-) . Cody & His Airmen provided a welcome alternative to contemporaneous mainstream bands like the dreadful Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin (whose singer pretended to be a Blues singer. He is currently pretending to be an Americana singer. Don’t fall for his ruse.). Kirchen went on to have a solo career, with a number of albums on the great Hightone Records label.
This album was recorded in Sausalito CA, Austin TX, and London England. The songs recorded in Austin feature guitar playing by the wonderful Gurf Morlix, Lucinda Williams’ Los Angeles-period (80’s and 90’s) band leader/guitarist/harmony singer/producer. I saw Lucinda and her Gurf-led band perform around L.A. before she got her major label deal, one time in a pizza parlour, to an audience of a half dozen. Fantastic!
The Austin line-up recorded what is now my favorite version of "The Times They Are A-Changin". Smokin’ hot Rock ’n’ Roll! Listening to it just now, I got goosebumps. The album is full of great songs, playing, and singing. Essential!
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