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| New Music: Oh Laura Tobias: Will try "Firecracker." Thanks!Jax2: Chinatown might be my favorite from BGT. Will try Over the Rhine. The Innocence Mission, wow! Worked door for one of their shows a million years ago, at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. Never bought a record... | |
| New Music: Oh Laura Thanks Tobias. I used to listen to WJs' 40 Days all the time. Sweet voices. Do you have a favorite disc of theirs? J | |
| New Music: Oh Laura Thanks for the suggestion; I liked their sound as well..My favorite "discovery" in the realm of altish folk voices lately is The Be Good Tanyas (www.begoodtanyas.com). Frazey Ford often sings, with a sweet and spacey voice that is a little, well, ... | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Rebbi: I think some of the units can be bought premade, either from NC or Lee Taylor. Believe it used to be so, anyway -- you could email NC. But a kit might be worth considering: the crossovers for the kits come preassembled, so if Lee Taylor bui... | |
| Racks, reasonably priced Milen007: No pics posted yet, but I could email you a few, if you send me as address. J | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please North Creek does a number of small room, near wall specific designs. (northcreekmusic.com). George Short of NC, and Lee Taylor, who builds his cabinets, are both very helpful. I enjoy my North Creek Eskas. John | |
| Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster long That is a nice post, Jim. Makes me remember Trane's Impressions and Jim Beam moving me to tears when I lived in Santa Cruz.Here are a few suggestions in the spirit of the thread:Hank Mobley, Roll Call. Hank is underrated, I think.Art Pepper, Moder... | |
| In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end? Very interesting thread. Here's a (hopefully) simple question: According to the local standards, what is the most that can be spent on a system that is appropriately posted in the "budget-minded" category? (I realize this is to some extent relativ... | |
| Cowboy Junkies: Lay It Down fav cd? My favs are Black Eyed Man and The Caution Horses. Although I like Miles from Our Home, I have not been as smitten by the more "atmospheric" recent efforts like Open and One Soul Now.Interestingly, although I adore CJ and have probably listened to... | |
| Vinyl in St. Louis area As others have said, Euclid Records, in Webster Groves, just outside of St. Louis City, is probably worth a try. I'm a digital guy, but they have a lot of records, the staff there is well informed, and the selection interesting.Webster Groves an a... | |
| Anyone use CD tweaks Tig: Music Direct sells Shinola, around 25 bucks for a bottle that lasts quite a while. I don't have strong opinions about its effects. John | |
| 'they blew'em off the stage' Jerry Garcia Band opened for Bobby and the Midnights, So. Fallsburg, NY, 1982. Rained hard on Bob, everybody went home, except for some guy with a bottle of Jack who kept screaming "Ain't it good to be alive!" at the top of his lungs.More obscurel... | |
| Allison Moorer - Mochingbird Have listened to Mockingbird twice now. I thought the sonics good for the genre, but the music a little retrained. Two to look for in the approximate zip code musically (altish, folkish, countryish), are Shannon McNally and Sera Cahoone. Shannon m... | |
| What is the 'Chales Shaw' of loudspeakers? With USblues here. In my estimation, any number of well chosen wines in the 10-15 dollar range easily best the (drinkable, but forgettable) Shaw. When we get to the 50 dollar range, even with the weak dollar, we are into nice samples of, say, very... | |
| Racks, reasonably priced With help from folks here, I built a rod and butcher block rack that I am well pleased with. 4 shelves for around $800. The below-linked thread ("Anyone built a flexi-type rack?") gives a pretty detailed account of the considerations involved. I l... |