Whats on your turntable tonight?

These just in:

James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards - "Live in Aught-Three"

Fantastic Folk-Rock/Americana album IMHO. Discovered when I heard "No More Buffalo" several years ago streaming Radio Paradise...

Curious if any of you guys have this one? Also, curious if you have any of McMurtry's studio albums? This music just seems to fit a live bar show so well...

Jean Martinon conducts Saint-Saëns - Symphonies - No. 1 In E Flat & No. 2 In A Minor. Orchestre National de la RTF. Angel 1974
 

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Elgar - Introduction And Allegro For Strings, Op. 47 & Serenade In E Minor, Op. 20 / Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis & Fantasia On "Greensleeves". The Sinfonia Of London & The Allegri String Quartet. Angel reissue 1980’s, originally 1963


 

Leonard Bernstein conducts Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 In F Minor & Serenade To Music. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1968
 

Dar Williams "Emerald"

2015/Dar Williams Music

"Black Eyed Man" 

After a steam. Really improved!

Side 3 was very tricky. 😕

Patricia Barber "Higher"

2020/Impex/45rpm

my replacement copy🤞

Richard Thompson "13 Rivers"

2018/New West

Ah, the sounds of youth... must have burned through 3 cassettes of "Live Bootleg". Would pump it hard through the Concord/Jensen setup in my '75 Blazer. What a battleship - couldn't park it anywhere in Boston. Lord of the Thighs was my personal favorite off "Get Your Wings",... think "Rocks" rocks the hardest though. @artemus_5  - need to pull out some JB tonight. He, like Charlie Farren are two Boston Music Icons that never enjoyed the traction nationally they deserved; big talents.

@bdp24 I enjoy your insight!
But I always thought Aerosmith’s version of Train was just a lead-in to their best cut: Seasons Of Wither. 😎

Deep Purple / The Book Of Taliesyn 
1968 Tetragrammaton

Three Dog Night / “One”
1968 Dunhill

Ringo Starr / Ringo
1973 Apple

 So many guest stars and all 4 Beatles on this one.

Savoy Brown / Hellbound Train
1972  Parrot

Dave Brubeck Quartet "The Last Time We Saw Paris"

The Don Elliot Octet, featuring Candido, "Jamaica Jazz" from the Broadway Production

Heinz Holliger "Oboe Concertos" by Mozart, Richard Strauss 

@spiritofradio I love Montrose but I'm not familiar with that title. 

A rose by any other name…

But yes! Whatever they use in stadiums and battlefields.  

Train Kept a Rollin’ deserves a massive stack of JBL….

Beta Radio - Ancient Transition 

@j_husker Cool story.  Do you have a favorite from his records?

Another from the recent In Groove haul:

Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel 2014 Rhino RE

@artemus_5 I actually met Jon Butcher in 1988ish. They were in town opening for someone-sorry the details escape me (was a foggy decade) and stayed in the hotel where my roommate worked. Talked to him for a bit in the hotel bar. Very nice guy!

György Lehel conducts Bartók - Symphonic Poem "Kossuth" Sz. 75a, Bb 31 / Scherzo In C Major From Symphony In E Flat Major Dd 68, Bb 25 / Scherzo For Piano And Orchestra. Magyar Rádió És Televízió Szimfónikus Zenekara w/Tusa Erzsébet, piano. Hungaroton 1971, Hungarian release
 

János Ferencsik conducts Kodály - ‘Ballet Music’ Symphony. The Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Qualiton 1965 Hungarian release
 

After finishing off 8&9 Of the Beethoven cycle, needed something different.

Václav Neumann conducts Martinů - Symphonies 3,4,&5. The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Supraphon 2LP gatefold 1982. Czechoslovakian release.
 

@bslon   Agreed! Will spin "Rocks" on next vinyl night... Friday?

@bslon thanks for the Kurt Vile tip. Missed this one.

@bslon 👍

Montrose - 10X10

@big_greg do you know this record?   

@dayglow @spiritofradio 

+++ Aerosmith- Get your Wings
Also a favorite album here, Seasons Of Wither I can (and do) play over and over. Killer.

@hi-end-newbie welcome!

Montrose - Eponymous 

From last night :

Lee Morgan (The Procrastinator)

Herbie Hancock (Maiden Voyage)

Isaac Hayes (Black Moses)

Hank Mobley (Soul Station)

Sam Fender / Seventeen Going Under
2021 Polydor 

Neil Young / Greatest Hits
2004 Reprise

Kurt Vile / (watch my moves)
2022 Verve

2nd listen, really liking his style here—mesmerizing, a little psychedelic maybe…good stuff. Double LP.

Corinne Bailey Rae - Eponymous 

Bardo Pond / Amanita 

I never saw Joe Perry play the solo on their version of “Train Kept a Rollin’” but I’ve heard from several others that he does it well. On the record the “dueling” lead guitar solos are Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. The same fellas who played dual lead for Alice Cooper during his best years. Interesting couple of guys. Hunter plays that iconic 5/4 acoustic guitar lead-in on Salsbury Hill. Wagner put out a few albums including with his band Ursa Major but neither ever played anything as memorable to me as those solos on Train Kept A Rollin; which, I feel are, musically, some of the best guitar solos ever recorded. Notwithstanding the often low esteem held for that band and that record and what Aerosmith may have eventually become.

@spiritofradio 

I thought "Night In The Ruts" had the gossip? about Joe Perry not playing on the recording? 

@dayglow + 1 on Get Your Wings. An all time favorite. Do you know the story about the guitar solos?

earlier:

Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come

currently:

Laid Back

Animal Collective / Merriweather 

Swans / Leaving meaning 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced(RS-6261) Side 2

Red Norvo Combo-Vibes Ala Red Side A

John B. Sabastian-ST Side 2

Molly Hatchet-Take No Prisoners Side 1

The 5th Dimension-Living Together Growing Together Side 1

Procol Harum-In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Side 1

Aerosmith-Get Your Wings Side 1 SQ*

Red Holloway & Company(CJ-322) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Another Concord Jazz SQ win. SQ* played Wings before but did not have the very good SQ like today. An OP yard sale find in VG cover/VG+ vinyl. Will look for a better OP pass on repress. Procol Harum-What great music! Excellent cover of "Day By Day" from the 5TH. Hatchet’s "All Mine" has a Skynyrd type grind with extra power on tap, with good SQ for rock.

Interpol / Turn on the bright lights

@noromance

As I say, there are two versions on Tidal, and both have different cover art than yours: The release dated 2011 sounds less ‘thin’ to my ears and more enjoyable.

From 2011

From 2015

Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos

I haven’t put this on in awhile, but as I was looking for a Sunday afternoon listen it caught my eye. Such a much better listen with loads of little details and layers than I remember. I had to laugh with the clear vinyl after  I got panicky for a sec before I remembered side four was blank. 

@bkeske Which versions and what one sounded better to you? I love the album. Inventive and fun. A must have. Shame it wasn't 15 years before on Ampex tape.

Gregg Allman - Laid Back

1973/2015 Analog Productions remaster.

Thanks to all the guys that recommended this one over the past few months. 

Sounds absolutely fantastic.