Whats on your turntable tonight?

Steve Earle & The Dukes
Guy

Man this record sounds good. 

@slaw & @tomic601

I thought after a re-listen this weekend that the Thorns sounded a lot like the vocal harmonies of America. Agree that Track 1 is reminiscent of Tom Petty. 
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Frank Sinatra
Sinatra’s Swingin Session!!! And More

wonderfully anachronistic. Could probably be sued if you played this in say, an office, or in your restaurant. Love it actually.

The Alan Parsons Project
I Robot

Keats
Eponymous
1984 EMI

Peter Bardens (Camel) on Keyboards. Connections to Alan Parsons abound.

Coxcomb Red.  Wow.  

Thanks Bro.  I didn’t mean Lo-Fi in terms of SQ.  It’s the style or genre of some of his earlier stuff, which I tend to like less than his later Magnolia EC stuff. Regardless, I will check that record out.  Molina is just great in my book.  

@slaw 

Hey Steve, I don’t have the “Lioness” album.  Is it more “Lo-Fi” style or ....?  Don’t see the box you’re referring to.  Could you give us some more info on the issue you’re listening to.  Thanks.  

Phillip Glass  
Naqoyqatsi (Soundtrack) 
Yo Yo Ma - Cello
Phillip Glass Ensemble

Tristan Perich
Drift Multiply

This is audio cool and astonishing.  Just 50 violins and a bank of electronics.  As if murmuration has been set to music.  Elemental.  Transcendent. Not a downer like much of electronica is to me.  Gets in your brain.  Makes system sound like it never has before.  I don’t like much electronica (fake instruments) but this guy gets it.  Melodies (if you can even say it has that ) reminiscent of Camel or Focus.  But the layers of sound.  Oh my.  

Iron & Wine
Kiss Each Other Clean

Jason Isbel
Southeastern

Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin’

@reubent Great to hear from you & Good on you.  +1 on the Elvis Costello. King of America in my inbox.


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Drive By Truckers
A Blessing and a Curse

FYI everybody.   Elusive has Soundsmith on sale.  $500 off on Zephyr.  

Great memories indeed @Mammothguy54

I put an Alpine car stereo and speakers in my 63 Dodge Dart.  Played the soundtrack of my life on cassette.  Cost more than the car.  Same company?

Finzi
Concerto for Clarinet & Strings
Grand Fantasia and Toccata
for Piano & Strings
Eclogue for Piano & Strings
John Denman • Peter Katin
New Philharmonia Orchestra
c. by Vernon Handley

Lyrita Recorded Edition 1977
(British Pressing)

aoife o’donovan 
fossils
Yep Roc Records 2013

@bkeske Bartok String Quartets are great.  And, something about string quartets and analogue...

Saint-Saëns  
Philippe Entremont, Piano
Michel Plasson, Conductor 
L’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Columbia Masterworks  1979

Guarneri Quartet
Mozart
Six Quartets Dedicated to Haydn
Vol. 2
RCA Red Seal 1974

M/M Ex/Ex/Ex $3.00 LRS (no sales tax) 

That’s hilarious.  

Finzi
Concerto for Clarinet & Strings
Grand Fantasia and Toccata
for Piano & Strings
Eclogue for Piano & Strings
John Denman • Peter Katin
New Philharmonia Orchestra
c. by Vernon Handley

Lyrita Recorded Edition 1977
(British Pressing)

M-/M- off Discogs from England

Both Piano and Orchestra sound fantastic on this issue of some of my favorite music.  

Joy Williams
Front Porch

with backing vocals by Caitlin Canty

Darlingside
Pilot Machines
Self Released Double 45

Backing vocals by Caitlin Canty

Bill Frisell
Valentine
Blue Note 2020

Frisell finally finds a trio

Welcome Mike.  

Great stack there @Mammothguy54!  Dave Mason is popular with quite a few members here and he is sure one of my favorites.  I’ve seen him live a few times in very different phases modes and settings. I have 2 Spirit records and love them.  Never got to see them live though, a little before my time I guess.  
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Darlingside
Extralife 

Very nice Jim. 

hey Brian, I’ve also been listening to Shostakovich No 1 - quite a bit lately - in heavy rotation as they say.  Will try to get that recording. 
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Best of Old Crow Medicine Show

I admired the architecture.  Met a lot of really nice folks from there over the years too.  I remember one trip there when I flew to Cleveland in the dead of winter direct from San Juan.  Man oh man it’s harsh.  Maybe why the folks learn to be so nice to each other.  

A. had only seen the sights
a girl could see from Shaker Heights...

truthfully, she was far more sophisticated than that, Princeton grad, fluent in French, hand model, radio voice over talent, law review, etc. I missed a good one there but have fond memories of visits to her childhood home in SH where her nice folks still lived.  We didn’t listen to FM but fooled around on her parents piano...

@pkatsuleas 

+1 on Remember the Future.  Love that album.  Unique sonic signature included. 

+1 Mammothguy54

Grateful Dead 
Terrapin Station

Yann Tiersen 
Lagniappe Session
Mute 2020 RSD

Joni Mitchell 
Ladies of the Canyon
Reprise 2011 Reissue

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Concerto for Cello & Orchestra 
Op. 40

Yo Yo Ma cello
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 
conducted by Vernon Handley

Lyrita Recorded Edition 1979

One of Finzi’s most accessible, emotionally rich, and popular; and, Yo Yo Ma’s first recording.  

“When I was stoned blue,
Rock and roll sure helped me through”

@slaw   thanks very much for your thoughts on the Joni record.   

@slaw  I’m waiting for your op/review with baited breath. 

@tomic601 & @beske (Brian, AG won’t let me @ your handle).  My VMP Dead Anthology arrived this morning.  It’s a really nicely done package at every level.  But so, I listened to the aforementioned associated podcast and I’m completely nonplussed by that 24 year old.  
And generally, I’ve decided that this endless discussing and promoting of everything to do with records and stereos that I expose myself to has, although informative particularly with respect to new music and music discovery, been a net detriment to my enjoyment of music and I just have to cut back on the YouTube, and the podcasts, and the blogs and the email and the web stuff.  I mean, I know what I like.  Need to trust my own perspectives and just enjoy the music.  
It’s great if some millennials catch on to the music I like but I have to admit that I really can’t stand to listen to them talk about it.  
So, my reaction to the young is different I think.  I think I’m glad for the reminder of my age.  And I don’t envy the young.  If music stands as symbol of a culture, the world they inhabit seems sad and thin in comparison to depth and richness of the culture in our time.  
   

@slaw  streaming 88 Basie street now and I see what you mean.   Even over digital this is great stuff.  Fantastic separation in a panoramic soundstage.  Dig this.  

@slaw  understand.  Hard to classify that Charles Lloyd.  Jazz with early rock sensibilities I guess.  I love Jarrett from just about any angle.  He’s got a groove going even way back on that recording.  

@slaw   well, you got the pp right?   the remix is better as far as SQ goes but probably still not up to a super high standard.  The music moves me though either way.  Maybe it should be saved for a loose, non-analytical mood.  
I mean, I love my Grand Funk Live Album but I need to be in the right mood for it.  Know what I mean?

@bkeske Hey Brian. yeah. It’s nice. Pick up a used copy - don’t think you’d have to spend too much (unless you want an audiophile version...). I heard on YouTube today that the SQ on the CD isn’t nearly as good as the record.

i have to say, admit to some craziness, whenever I listen to Oscar Peterson (I also have that record with him and Louis Armstrong) I say to myself/find myself wishing that I could play like him.  People say to me that I play like this or that guy but I always dismiss any of that as ridiculous, which it is, but Oscar gets me whimsical and wishing I could really play like him.  Maybe because he makes it seem so effortless.  And of course because he’s so good. 

@slaw  my “WGR” is a repress or reissue I’m pretty sure - I bought it new - don’t know how to tell.  I saw today that one of my favorite retailers has the analogue productions fancy version back in stock and was reminded of it.  Not the kind of thing I would spend too much on.  Just a nice upbeat jazz trio record.  But it sounds wonderful.  How are you liking “love-in”?

I put on “We Get Requests” as dinner music but did a double take. Forgot how great this sounds. Rare reproduction of the nuances of piano tone. Percussion is so real. Nice.

Oscar Peterson 
We Get Requests

Bill Frisell
God Dog, Happy Man

@mammothguy54, Thanks.  I guess I need to seek out a better copy. Love that music.  

Camel
Stationary Traveller
London 1984