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".

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- Something Peculiar by Julianna Raye. Delightful Pop, produced by Jeff Lynne.

- The Grays: s/t. Interesting later Beatle-esque style music (circa 1967), group members included Jason Faulkner (later of Jellyfish) and Jon Brion (who went on to do some major producing).

Ricky Lee Jones:  I haven’t played the original CD in a long time. Since updating to a Audiolab 6000CDT (one available in the classifieds for $499, a true bargain), I am delighted how much more cohesive my system sounds. RLJ has better space, depth, warmth, detail...

I watched a YTV of Elvis P singing Polk Salad Annie; LIVE and rushed to Barnes & Noble to see if it was on any of the EP CDs in stock. I found it on That's the way it Is  a 2 disc 2 set.  Sadly D2 which is where PSA is, is more like outtakes, instead of complete songs. I hope I can return it. Back to Amazon

Today I listened to a CD I bought on Discogs, He Walks Through Walls by Julie Miller. Julie is now a major artist---along with her husband/partner Buddy Miller, producer, singer, guitarist, and band leader for Emmylou Harris---in the Americana music genre (formerly known as Alt-Country). At the time of the recording and release of this album, however, she was an artist---as was Buddy---in the Contemporary Christian Music world. This album is on the MYRRH label, a major player in that world.

This album---produced by Julie, Buddy, and Dan Posthuma, is fantastic! It features Buddy's signature recorded sound (if you've heard any of his productions you know what I mean. If you haven't, get with it!), so I'm sure he engineered the recordings. The album contains earlier recordings of a coupla songs which later appeared---re-recorded---on her essential Hightone Records albums. Buddy & Julie, two of my most favorite artists working now.

As long as I'm at it, let me hip you to the fact that both Sam Phillips and T Bone Burnett came from the CCM world as well. In those days Sam went by the name Leslie, and her CCM albums are easy to find for cheap. Not as good (imo) as Julie's but that's an awfully high bar. T Bone produced Leslie's album The Turning (her transition from the spiritual world to the secular), which was issued on LP by A & M, and even a CD on DCC.  

David Bowie - Heathen

Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire

Toronzo Cannon - The Preacher, The Politician or The Pimp

He will be at Axpona on the 22nd. Very well worth hearing. Great Blues Artist

Huey Lewis & The News - Sports MFSL

Album full of hit songs that are pretty catchy