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| New In 2023 At long last, a new album from Iris DeMent, due out in February. | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection Nope! I'd love to hear out-takes from the Planet Waves recordings, though. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Rooftops by Larry Campbell (sideman/bandleader for Dylan and Levon Helm), a fantastic album of pure instrumental music played on acoustic guitar. Well recorded, too. | |
| RIP Tom Verlaine Damn, these deaths are becoming awfully frequent. The debut Television album was quite unlike anything from the other CBGB bands, and still sounds great. | |
| Gurf Morlix Cool @stuartk! Speaking of Albert Lee, I saw him live in a small club in Ventura, just south of Santa Barbara. I never managed to see him playing with The Everly Brothers, damnit. | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes If you like the sound of Maggies, but don't want or can't afford a 300 watt tube amp, look into the Eminent Technology LFT-8. Like Maggies, the LFT employs planar-magnetic drivers. Unlike the Maggies, the LFT is a tube-friendly loudspeaker, it's m... | |
| Tune of the Day Great song Steve! Mary performed it when I saw her live last year. | |
| Favourite Guitarists @bgross: Guess you missed my post, ay? Harrison is in there. Since his name has been invoked, will someone tell me why people call Keith Richards "Keef"? For evidence of why I didn’t list him, watch the scene in the documentary (Hail! Hail! Rock ... | |
| Why is so much music recorded out of key? Some singers are recorded with the tape machine running slow, to lower the pitch of a note above the top of the singer's range. In post-production the tape is then slowed down to return the song to it's original pitch and tempo. In addition, some ... | |
| Gurf Morlix Oops, Lucinda's drummer was Donald Lindley, not David (Dave's a mighty fine stringed instrument player). Donald died quite a while back, David's still with us. | |
| Favourite Guitarists Lots of great lists (nice one @audi-owe!), many of my faves---but not all---already mentioned. Al Anderson (The Wildweeds, solo, NRBQ) Dave Edmunds (Love Sculpture, solo, Rockpile) Albert Lee (Heads Hands & Feet, Emmylou, The Everly B... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? From days gone by: Tammy Wynette, Dusty Springfield, and Darlene Love. In the now: Iris DeMent (very nice to see her included by two others), Emmylou Harris, and Lucinda Williams. | |
| Tune of the Day "Closer To The Flame", the lead-off track on Dave Edmunds’ album of the same title. Great chord progression/structure and melody, subtle employment of inversion in the bass part, and a wicked little guitar solo, one of Dave’s major talents. For an... | |
| Gurf Morlix Gurf was Lucinda’s guitarist/harmony singer/bandleader/producer (along with Dusty Wakeman, partner with Dwight Yoakam’s guitarist Pete Anderson of a recording studio in Burbank. Wakeman is also a very good bassist. He had Fender make him a 3-strin... | |
| What was the first CD with great drums?? The early Sheffield Labs direct-2-disk albums. The CD versions of those albums are of course not direct-2-disk (LP's, vinyl for you youngins' ;-), but recording engineer Doug Sax also captured those in-studio performances on the reel-to-reel machi... |