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| New In 2024 On December 6th, Highway 20 Records releases Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road. | |
| New In 2024 On November 21st New West Records is releasing an album by The Coward Brothers (T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello). | |
| Kris Kristofferson That perspective being of looking in the mirror. | |
| Kris Kristofferson @slaw: Me too Steve, as well as a few of his with Rita, and her solo. I don't know why I didn't get into them back in the 70's, but better late than never. I became acquainted with Billy Swan when we both lived in Sherman Oaks, CA. He served a... | |
| Kris Kristofferson All right, here’s another with the same guitarist as in the above video---Jedd Hughes, wherein he talks about an album in my all-time Top 10, The Houston Kid by Rodney Crowell. He also speaks about Emmylou, as well as Buddy Miller, Albert Lee, ... | |
| Open baffle speakers Danny Richie of GR Research designs and sells both OB and sealed box loudspeakers and subs (in kit form). He has used the same drivers in both applications, and makes no bones about preferring the sound the drivers make when used open baffle. T... | |
| Kris Kristofferson I’ll do that Matthew. Speaking of YouTube, singer/songwriter Otis Gibbs regularly posts videos of his interviews with (mostly) musicians, many of them Country. Here’s one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/_7PT_f5G5z8?si=eZSr5nnq6bSDvZfG... | |
| Dodd Audio Preamp Excellent @jim2! By the way people, Danny’s system includes a pair of the GR Research/Rythmik Audio Servo-Feedback OB/Dipole Subs (the 3 woofer version). I regularly see guys stating as fact that OB subs aren’t capable of producing deep bass. ... | |
| Infinity RS 1B - How does the 'old dream speaker' compare to today's speakers? @cleeds: While I heard the IRS once (Mike Kay of Lyric Audio brought his pair to the Stereophile Show in L.A. one year), the highest-level model I have lived with was the RS-1b (my first Infinity’s were the company’s entry-level speaker---the M... | |
| Kris Kristofferson Matthew: Larry McNeely! I have an album of his, Live At McCabe’s (Takoma Records), the well known acoustic instrument shop on Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica (a favorite haunt of Ry Cooder). There is a concert venue in the back of the store; I saw V... | |
| Kris Kristofferson @immatthew: Yeah, the lines separating Country & Western, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Folk, Singer/Songwriter, etc. are not clear cut. And it was---imo---the emergence of Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, etc. that led "mainstream/commercial" Country m... | |
| Dodd Audio Preamp Give a call to Danny Richie at GR Research. Gary and Danny were close friends, and Danny has a number of Dodd amps and pre-amps, which he used in his system at hi-fi shows, and still does in his own personal system. | |
| New In 2024 On October 18th New West Records is releasing (on LP and CD) a various artists collection of recordings of songs written by David Olney. Entitled Can't Steal My Fire: The Songs Of David Olney, the artists include Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier... | |
| Open baffle speakers Few people have heard either the Linkwitz Lab or GR Research open baffle loudspeakers, both of which include open baffle woofers. Linkwitz uses a pair of 10" woofers in an M/W frame, GR Research a choice of two or three 12" woofers in an H fram... | |
| Kris Kristofferson For those who haven’t heard it, Gordon Lightfoot’s recording of Kris’ "Me And Bobby McGee" is a great version (it’s on his If You Could Read My Mind album, originally issued as Sit Down Young Stranger). As a bonus, it features excellent recorde... |