Whats on your turntable tonight?

Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Survival Knife - Loose Power

Noro Morales "No Blues"
Just sold in MINT condition original 1962 Mono.
Hate to part with this one.
Priced it higher than the highest sold and still sold:-(

Archie Bronson Outfit - Wild Crush
Hills - Master Sleeps

My newly Soundsmith re-tipped Grado Ref. Sonata ($250 option) playing Cassandra Wilson and Porcupine tree. Soundsmith made this cartridge sound better than new. Brought tears to my eyes and stood my hair on end.

steve miller--recall the beginning...before his run as purveyor of mindless (tho catchy) am hits, sm was actually quite an ambitious fellow whose late 60s/early 70s records were very well conceived, flawlessly played and still sound good today. this one is something of a lost masterpiece--one side of short, melodic pop and the other a sorta spacey psychedelic suite culminating in the title track, which is awful purty. very good guitar playing throughout.

real estate--atlas...really tuneful jangly guitar pop somewhat reminiscent of early rem without the mumbling or velevet underground without the angst. real songs that stick in your head.

Preteen Zenith ‎– Rubble Guts & BB Eye
Jack White ‎– Lazaretto
Sleepy Sun - Spine Hits
Curtis Harvey - The Wheel

Black Keys - Turn Blue

Led Zeppelin II - new 180g pressing where Jimmy Page turned the bass WAY up. I still like my 1969 Japanese pressing better, but this is good.

AC/DC - Back in Black

Heart - Greatest Hits

Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife (wife wanted to hear it, but I must admit, I was signing along)

(2) 1970's pop/rock masterpieces, Doobie Brothers -Toulouse Street and Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band-Night Moves!

Koyaanisqatsi - Phillip Glass.

Magico - Haden, Garbarek, Gismonti.
Started with side 2, first track, "Silence"...seemed appropriate.

Absolute Whores, the local punkabily band from Toronto. Direct to disc live recording.

southside johnny, "men without women"--live remake of little steven's late 70s lost classic. pretty great--johnny's a much better singer than ls and the horns, in particular, are spot-on. the songs are classic. really.

boris and michio kurihara, "rainbow"--intoxicating stuff; a japanese metal/post punk band (sorta sonic youthy) teamed up with a wacked-out guitar shredder who plays these searing, atonal solos over the surrprisingly melodic tunes. i can't stop listening to it...

Egberto Gismonti - Danca das Cabecas (amazing guitar playing and excellent sonics on the LP)

Ralph Tower - Blue Sun

Danca das Cabecas was my introduction to Gismonti's music and probably my favorite of his albums. I was loaned a cassete tape of it many years ago by Christie Brinkley while on a photo shoot in Mexico. Who knew supermodels had such good musical taste?

Rbrowne - great story. Who'd a thunk it?

REM Live Unplugged 1991 and 2001 - great vinyl, great band, great songs, great recording

Eric Clapton - Slowhand - great Clapton record! Listen to this time and time again

...loaned a cassete tape of it many years ago by Christie Brinkley ... Who knew supermodels had such good musical taste?

lol, she married billy joel so her taste in "music" is suspect

Rbrowne, do you actually photoshoot Christie?
Not only she was married to Billie Joel, but frequent visitor of opera and symphony.
I wouldn't drop the fact that Christie met or knew Egberto personally.

Easy Star All-Stars - Dubber Side Of The Moon
Slint - Spiderland
Hungry Ghost - Hungry Ghost

Dust. Lots of dust.

Dire Straits .... the "Sultans of Swing" album.
Deep Purple .... "Made in Japan."
Cat Stevens .... "Teaser and Firecat."
Sonny Rollins .... "Way Out West."
Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan .... "Together Again for the First Time."
Joni Mitchell .... "Blue."

Adam, Did Dire Straits have "Sultains of Swing" album? I thought it's self-titled one.

Yes Czar ..... it's their self titled debut album. I always fondly refer to it as the "Sultans of Swing" album, as I will forever associate the album with the song.

Billow Observatory

Freeman - Freeman
La Hell Gang - Thru Me Now
Man Or Astro-Man? ‎– Defcon 5...4...3...2...1
EverGreen - Evergreen
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Breeder's - Last Splash
The Who - Who's Next
June Of 44 - Tropics And Meridians
Sleepy Sun - Spine Hits

Billow Observatory

Spot 1019 - This World Owes Me A Buzz
Brian Eno - Lux
Centro-Matic ‎– Take Pride In Your Long Odds

Zig Zags - Zig Zags
Desert Sessions ‎– Desert Sessions 7 & 8
Swell ‎– Too Many Days Without Thinking

Punk Rock and post punk will be played today:

Never Mind Bollocks(already played)
Lou Reed "Transformer"
Husker Du(didn't pick album yet)
Fear "The Record"
Luc Van Acker "Heart and Soul"
Elo Omoe;
Absolute Whores;
Nina Hagen "Unbehagen", "Nunsexmonkrock".

Miles Davis- Bags Groove

not really my genre, but "benjamin booker" is very good--raw, loose blooznboogie. nothing groundbreaking, but the kid's a natural and has a real way with the big, melodic hook.

Pythagoras After the Silence
Radiohead OK Computer

Johnny Preston, "Running Bear". Got nostalgic.

Wes Montgomery, Full House

Heifez - Munch/Boston Symphony/Beethoven violin concerto in D major/RCA-Victor, shaded dog 1959 first press stereo... I'm motionless indeed!

Talk Talk
both Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock tonight.

A Stan Getz evening...
Getz/Gilberto, Verve V6 8545
Stan Getz Plays with , Verve UCJU 9014 Japanese reissue
Jazz Samba (with Charlie Byrd), Verve V 8432

What else but the Vince Guaraldi Trio's "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Fantasy F-8431! Happy Holidays, Rush!

I suspect that will come out sometime tomorrow, Russ. :-)

Hilliard Ensemble, Cipriano de Rore: "Le Vergine" - Harmonia Mundi HM 1107 (another beautifully engineered recording from Jean-Francois Pontefract)

Italian Madrigals of the 14th Century, Jacopo da Bologna, performed by the Ensemble Project Ars Nova, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi HM 738

A Charlie Brown Christmas, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Fantasy 8431 (45rpm Analogue Productions reissue)

Dexter Gordon, Our Man in Paris, Blue Note ST-84146 (45rpm Music Matters reissue)

Dexter Gordon, Dexter Calling , Blue Note ST-84083 (45rpm Analogue Productions resissue)

Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman, Island ILPM 9135

Linda Ronstadt, Heart Like a Wheel, Capitol ST 11358 (Cisco reissue)
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Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 - Browning/Leinsdorf/BSO - RCA LSC 2897

Alwyn Fantasy-Waltzes (1956) - John Ogdon - Chandos ABRD 1125

Debussy Jardines sous la Pluie - Ivan Moravec - Connoisseur Society CS 2010 Athena reissue

Holst Planets - Mehta/LAPO - Decca SXL 6529 ORG 45rpm reissue

Maria Callas - Callas Mad Scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet, Il Pirata - EMI SAX 2320 Testament reissue

In memory of HP: Dusty Springfield, The Look of Love - Colgems 45rpm Classic Records reissue
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Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony/In the Fen Country--Boult, New Philharmonia Orchestra-EMI ASD 2393

Exotic Dances from the Opera--Oue, Minnesota Orchestra--Reference Mastercuts RM-1505

Rodrigo, Concerto de Arajuez--Romero, Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields--Philips 9500 563

Arnold, English Scottish Cornish Dances--Arnold, London Philharmonic--Lyrita SCRS 109--HP was right, probably in the top three orchestral recordings I have on vinyl.

Russ, I absolutely agree about the Malcolm Arnold English Dances, Lyrita SCRS 109. Wilkie nailed this one. It is one of 2 or 3 most natural and accurate representations of a full orchestra in my collection. When people want to understand soundstaging, I pull out this LP. The other LP I bring out is Power of the Orchestra (RCA VICS 2659), also recorded by Wilkinson under contract between RCA and Decca.

For those who may not know: "Wilkie" was Kenneth Wilkinson, recording engineer famous for his work with Decca in the '60s and '70s. His work for Lyrita was freelance and no credits appear on the Lyrita album covers, but he did much of his best work (as in natural sounding, more minimally miked) for that label.
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Correction to the above... Wilkinson's work for Lyrita was apparently not freelance. Lyrita contracted with Decca for their recordings (as did RCA and Readers Digest) and Lyrita's owner, Richard Itter, always requested Wilkinson to engineer the recordings. See this Wikipedia article for more detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Wilkinson
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CCR Bayou Country analogue production reissue 200g

Lennox Berkeley: Sextet; Palm Court Waltz - Nash Ensemble - Hyperion A66086 (another masterful engineering job by Anthony Howell)

Debussy: Children's Corner Suite - Michelangeli - DGG 2530 196

Beatles: Mono Masters

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump - Columbia CL 997
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Copland, Appalachian Spring - Steinberg/PittsburgSO - Command (a really nice performance, well engineered by C.R. Fine in his days post-Mercury)

Beethoven, Serenade in D for flute, violin and viola - Zoeller/Brandis/Ueberschaer - DGG

Bloch, Concerto Grosso No. 1 - Hanson/EastmanRochesterSO - Mercury SRI 75017

Kabalevsky, Major-minor Etudes for Cello & Piano op67 - Ojebo -vc, Zaharieva -pf - Opus 3 7708
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Ellington- Masterpieces

Supertramp Breakfast in America. What a fun listen.

had indie night yesterday:
Joy Division: Closer
Fear: The Fear Record

It has been a long time since I have played Wynton Marsalis ,,I think it is his debut LP. I had forgotten what a beautiful Lp it is! I will play it again tonight .He was only 19!