Opus Two- Gershwin: Music for Violin and Piano
Well done but not really my cup of tea. My wife is in "my" listening room so I'm playing it for her.
She grew up with the pianist, Andrew Cooperstock and he and the violinist, Bill Terwilliger are friends of the family. Bill is the concert master of our new local symphony. |
Ending the evening with Floyd, DSOM. |
Leon Bridges - Coming Home. Retro R&B with gospel themes mixed in.
This is another one of those albums that the more I listen to it the more I like it. This young man is the real deal. Not a poser. Not an act. You hear it in the vocals, his band and especially in the lyrics.
I’d like to see him live. He's touring in my region in April but I'll be at a blues festival in Mississippi when he is here. :-( |
Traffic- Low Spark.....
John Barleycorn next.
Both on CD. Both well produced. |
The radio. Over the airwaves not the internet. WRBK. Little private station in the middle of nowhere. Listening to "On the Beach" with Charlie Brown.
Any of you folks know what beach music is? |
Boxer12, beach music is a regional variation of Motown type music from the southern U.S. coast, primarily the Myrtle Beach area. It originated in the 50's and 60's. The shag, which originated in Ocean Drive just north or Myrtle Beach is the dance associated with beach music. Bands like The Drifters, The Temptations, The Embers, The Tams, The Four Tops, The Chairman of the Board, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. Quite a few of these bands had Motown careers (The Temptations obviously) in addition to music they wrote and arranged as 'beach music' and some crossed over. Stax and Atlantic Records were major labels for beach music. Some famous beach tunes: Carolina Girls – General Johnson With this Ring – Platters I Love Beach Music – Embers My Girl – Temptations Sixty Minute Man – Billy Ward Under the Boardwalk – Drifters Miss Grace – Tymes Summertime is Calling Me – Catalinas Myrtle Beach Days – Fantastic Shakers What You Do To Me – Embers 39-21-46 – Showmen You’re More Than a Number in My Little Red Book – Drifters Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy – Tams She Used to be my Girl – O’Jays
Build Me Up Buttercup – Foundations Girl Watcher – O’Kaysions Some Kind of Wonderful – The Band of Oz |
It is a very regional and now 'oldies' sort of thing. Mostly just an interesting side note to Motown.
And now for something completely different:
Currently listening to Rush - Signals. Also not beach music. A good but not great album in my opinion. It is also the last Rush album I ever bought. I have not liked a single song they did since that album. Glad they were successful with subsequent albums and glad they have a fan base who likes those albums and I'm still very fond of Rush...just Signals and earlier. |
Get Lucky - Mark Knopfler......not Loverboy....although I did have that album once too. |
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. CD. |
Aja-Steely Dan. CD. Never disappoints. |
Counting Crows - August and Everything After. Good SQ on the original CD. |
You have to wait for it, most of the song is taken from Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years". The "Hunter" part comes in at the end. |
Bozz Skaggs - Silk Degrees. Ripped CD. The man can sing.
@david_ten : I discovered Albert King when I started a mission to collect all the original blues songs Led Zeppelin ripped off. King's "The Hunter" which is on the Born Under a Bad Sign album was part of the basis for LZ's "How Many More Times" which is an awesome song but puts a more sinister twist of King's 'love gun'.
I need to get the whole album. Going to the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi in April and need to make a list of stuff to get at Cat Head Music there. |
Traffic - Far From Home
A somewhat dated but probably underrated Traffic album. Very well produced. |
Rush - Hemispheres , ripped CD |
Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky.
So well produced. Could be a system reference work for me.
And then there is the song "Get Lucky". In general I'm into more serious and even sometimes dark stuff, which Knopfler provides plenty of and always has. But the song "Get Lucky" towards the end of the album always lifts my spirits even when I perfectly content to be in a bad mood. |
Gary Clark, Jr. - Blak and Blu. HD Tracks.
Room rattling guitar rock, creamy smooth retro R&B, hip hop, blues. All great. All on one album. This young man's got more talent than any young musician I can think of. His second album is good too. Prince-like talent. Maybe not the same charisma though.
I think he took a wrong turn with his third, recently released, album, but that happens to the best of them. |
@mental : I have Get Lucky on CD not vinyl. As far as I know there is only one release of that CD. DR database has it at an average DR of 10, which is not great for a Knopfler production but still pretty good sounding.
Right now listening to Blue Mountain - Dog Days
Anyone remember them? 1990's southern roots rock. This album has a couple of great songs, a few decent songs and a couple of truly awful songs. The great ones are worth the listen. The good ones, to me, are Blue Canoe, Soul Sister, Wink, and Let's Go Runnin'. Just the names of those songs tell you they're going to be good/ |
The Struts - Everybody Wants
Going to see them again in May. Twice. |
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Probably in my top 10. |
@slaw : "You praise Clark Jr. here, yet on other threads, you posit how much you despise the sonics...…………………....."
That's correct. He is an amazing musician. The production quality on the Blak and Blu CD is poor. The reason I bought Blak and Blu on HD Tracks is that it is superior to the CD. The vinyl is better quality than the CD and HD Tracks file but I don't have the equipment to exploit it.
Not sure why there is such variation between media. |
Giving the Marcus King Band another try. Carolina Confessions. |
Son Volt - Trace. Ripped CD.
So refreshing and genuine when it came out. |
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
Probably the best produced CD I've heard so far....if you're into the very 'produced' sound....which I usually am. Everything sounds very intentional and purposeful. Bass is fantastically tight and precise. |
The Oxford American Southern Sampler CD 2000:
Alejandro Escovedo
Doc and Merle Watson
Asie Payton
Randy Newman
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Billy the Kid, great Petty song that most have never heard.
Wilco
Dolly Parton
Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish
Kevin Kinney
Ronnie Milsap
Alison Krauss
And many more. Amazing CD.
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The Band - Best of. Ripped CD. |
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
I always thought Shannon Hoon was a real talent. Another rock casualty. |
R.E.M. - Out of Time
Tech question. Is there any way on Audiogon to automatically go to the last post in a thread or the last post that you read? In other words, this thread is a million pages long. When I click on it in my 'Related to You' or 'All Recent" section it takes me to the first post. Then I have to click on "Last" and scroll down the end. Surely I've missed something and there is a better way? |
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Bach Easter Cantata WDAV FM radio, before church.
At church, spectacular choral and pipe organ. |
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions. Just got the CD. $4.
I really like a few of the songs and generally dislike a few.
Lay It Down remains my favorite of their albums. Seems more mature musically and lyrically. Is also well produced. |
@uberwaltz: "I think some of yesterday posts established that this Audiophool community in general does not have a sense of humour at all!"
I think you are right. But let's not let that keep the rest of us from having a good laugh even if they don't get it......or even if it is at their expense. ;-) |
@david_ten in addition to our recently renovated 100 year old pipe organ, the music director hired horns and kettle drums for the service. They and the choir did various works from Handel and Mozart. Mozart’s Gloria was spectacular.
The sermon was pretty good too.
Now I’m listening to Bukka White’s early recordings on vinyl.
I don’t believe in purgatory but I wonder what’s in store for someone who enjoys sacred music in the morning and blues in the evening. Something special I suppose. ;-) |
Led Zeppelin I - CD. Feeding my blues jones. I seem to recall that that album got ripped by the critics when it debuted.
I have it on vinyl but I think it is worn out. Maybe I’ll give it a bath and see how it sounds.
Edit: Good gracious what a great song How Many More Times is. Not to mention the Albert King and Howlin' Wolf songs that inspired it. |
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Bukka White - Early Recordings. 180g vinyl.
Its like reading Homer. It is easy for your initial impression to be "what’s so great about this stuff? It seems so primitive." But when you realize it was the _first_ stuff and it lead to most of the other stuff, it makes you appreciate it more and dig a little deeper into it. |
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Playlist of Mark Knopfler's Celtic stuff. |
@uberwaltz listens to classical! Wow. |
Right now: FM radio via Denon tuner.
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Pete Townshend - White City. Amazing album except for the song Face the Face which is so bad I leave it off the CD rip.
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Steely Dan - Two Against Nature. CD.
Not my favorite Steely Dan album but it is probably the best produced CD I've ever heard. Just unreal. It is my reference and system show-off CD. |
@boxer12, I had forgotten about Delbert McClinton. Last time I listened to him was in college, headed down highway 17 from Charleston to Edisto in a friend's Jeep. We were going fishing just off Editsto. He loved Delbert and we blasted him the whole way. Seemed to fit our little adventure. That and the beer. |
@boxer12, its a cliche for sure but rock has been the soundtrack to my life.
Also recall a ritual where my college roommate and I would head over to the Isle of Palms on our way to a bar that featured local bands called the Windjammer. We'd always play Highway To Hell by AC/DC. Cassette tape. In my '76 Jeep Cherokee.
I don't know why.
Made us fell cool I guess.
We were not.
Still aren't. |
@drrsutliff : I love that Chris Isaak album and Wicked Game is probably in my top 10 favorite songs. |
Floyd. Animals. Then Wish You Were Here. |
JD McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll
JD McPherson - Undivided Heart and Soul
JD McPherson - Signs and Signifiers
Blue Mountain - Dog Days
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Cowboy Junkies- Trinity Session |
JJ Grey and Mofro -The Choice Cuts
Playing at the Windjammer on the Isle of Palms (Charleston), SC this summer. Might be worth a trip. |
Knopfler - Get Lucky. Like Tracker and Privateering it is a lush album, well produced, heavy Celtic influence. It is probably my second favorite after Tracker but very close to CD #1 on Privateering.
Knopfler's VERY restrained but superb and understated guitar work on these albums marks him as a true master in my opinion. I consider him one of if not the very best. |
Vintage Trouble - The Bomb Shelter Sessions. Their first album I think. A couple of songs on there I find irritating but the bulk of them are good, several are excellent including Running Outta You, Not Alright With Me and Nobody Told Me. Their second full album, 1-Hopeful Road is more mature and really an excellent album start to finish.
If you're not familiar with them and you like bluesy R&B, give them a listen. |
