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| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? @simonmoon: We all walk our our musical paths. Mine has been the reverse of yours; I started with 20th Century (Stravinsky, Copland, Ives, Vaughan Williams, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Holst, Ravel, Prokofiev, Penderecki even (his "Threnody To The Vict... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time For those who like Iggy Pop and dislike "modern" Country music, here’s a quote from IP about an old-timer with a new album: " ’London Too’ will break your heart if you’ve got one". The song is on Tommy McLain’s new album I Ran Down Every Dream, h... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? @simonmoon: For a stimulating workout of your brain, give Bach's Concerto For 4 Harpsichords And Orchestra a listen. Each harpsichord plays a separate melody (the form of the Fugue, employing a lot of counterpoint), all following the chord progres... | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? Aw geez @viridian, why didn’t "TNTDODD" come to mind! Robbie Robertson says he wrote the song for Levon, using all the stories about the South that Helm had been telling the other members of The Hawks/The Band over the years. They were all Canadia... | |
| Tune of the Day "I Walk The Line Revisited" by Rodney Crowell. A damn cool song with a guest appearance by Johnny Cash himself. | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? Rodney Crowell wrote a great song that recounts his hearing of "Ring Of Fire" on the radio while driving in the car with his pa one night. It’s entitled "I Walk The Line Revisited", revisited because Johnny Cash appears on the recording of the son... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? If one can't find anything of interest in the music of J.S. Bach, perhaps he or she does not really love music as much as he or she thinks. JSB wrote enough music to keep one busy for at least a lifetime. | |
| New In 2023 On April 7th Compass Records is releasing Bluegrass Holiday by Ronnie Fulks. Musical accompaniment provided by a who's who of Bluegrass superstars. | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time At the risk of beating a dead horse (no relation to a broken down pickup truck ;-), I must reiterate that there are many current Country artists making music that is deeply rooted in the music’s Hillbilly origins, not in Rock music, Southern Rock,... | |
| Low level listening Electrostatic loudspeakers, the original Quad ESL in particular. | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? "Strange Fruit". Written by Abel Meeropol, sung by Billie Holiday. Bob Dylan wrote a lot, among them "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll", "Oxford Town", "Hurricane", and "The Death Of Emmitt Till". All the above are related to the lingering (... | |
| The Mood Was Ruined I have CD's that exhibit digital "rot", the result being the music becoming completely chaotic. No format is perfect. Your Technics direct drive turntable is not what "tracks a divot in a groove." That is the responsibility of your pickup and ton... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones Rubber Soul and Revolver are my go-to Beatles albums. I haven’t played SPLHCB in over fifty years. Same for Abbey Road. Way over half of the white album is unlistenible. Mick Jagger is a terrible singer, Keith Richards a mediocre guitarist (for v... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones @bigtwin: Two matters: 1- The lyric is actually "when (not "well") after after all it was you and me." 2- I did answer the question: I choose neither. Yesterday I went into my local record store to pick up an album they ordered for me: Lonely So... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time Here’s a fact that may come as a surprise to those of you who are Neil Young lovers and Country music haters: Neil likes Hank Williams so much he bought Hank’s Martin acoustic guitar, the one upon which the latter wrote all his classic Country so... |