What Are You Listening To?

[Kazaam]

let's go way back to early Fleetwood Mac

I love "Hypnotized"

I never would've guessed that to be a Fleetwood Mac album cover! I that poor fella from might've been turned into this house, I fear:

 

[Botch]

"Hypnotized" is one of the greatest records ever made! :text-+1: :text-+1: :text-+1:

 

[Dennie]

Imagine -- CD

John Lennon

1971/1990 Apple/Capitol Records
Amazon.com

The enduring legacy of John Lennon's best album has overshadowed a glaring historical irony: the Beatles' original architect was also responsible for some of the Fab Four's most erratic solo albums. His recording projects all too often held hostage to polemics both personal and political, Lennon's conflicting artistic sensibilities arguably reached perfect balance just once. Coproduced with an uncharacteristically subtle touch by Phil Spector (a stark contrast to his dense aural constructions for George Harrison's All Things Must Pass from the same period), this is Lennon as whole man. Here he exhibits childlike utopian optimism (the title track), extends romantic paeans to the love of his life ("Oh Yoko!" "Oh My Love," and "Jealous Guy," the latter two begun as White Album demos) and spews bitter, petty acrimony toward his former songwriting partner ("How Do You Sleep?"). Set against such expressions, Lennon's fervent antiestablishment tirades ("I Don't Want to Be a Soldier," "Gimme Some Truth") took on some real weight and perspective, while his dollops of introspection ("How?" "Crippled Inside") have an air of resignation missing from the vitriol of his personal exorcism, Plastic Ono Band.
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Imagine" 3:01
2. "Crippled Inside" 3:47
3. "Jealous Guy" 4:14
4. "It's So Hard" 2:25
5. "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" 6:05
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Gimme Some Truth" 3:16
7. "Oh My Love" 2:44
8. "How Do You Sleep?" 5:36
9. "How?" 3:43
10. "Oh Yoko!" 4:20

 

[Dennie]

Thirty-Year Retrospective - LIVE -- 2 CD Set

Mark O'Connor

2003 OMAC Records

Astonishing virtuosity,
January 18, 2007
By Stephen G. Messer (Drouin, Victoria, Australia) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Thirty-Year Retrospective: Live (Audio CD)

Believe the accolades, this is acoustic instrumental music at its finest. Mark O'Connor has assembled an acoustic music dream team, able to interpret with skill and daring the various styles he has traversed over the course of his stellar career. The recording quality is outstanding allowing the instruments' characteristics and the flawless techniques of Byron House (bass), Bryan Sutton (guitar) and Chris Thile (mandolin) to positively glisten. Combining extraordinary musical accompishment with superbly crafted tunes, both original and traditional, this is a set to savour. Recommended without reservation.

All songs composed and arranged by Mark O'Connor except where noted in the Song List.

CD One

1. A Bowl of Bula
2. Tom & Jerry (Public Domain arranged by Mark O'Connor)
3. Flight Home
4. Johnny Appleseed
5. Jerusalem's Ridge (Bill Monroe)
6. Mark's Waltz
7. Jesse Polka (Public Domain arranged by Mark O'Connor)
8. Swingin' on the 'Ville
9. Send Rainbows
10. Caprice No. 4 in D Major
11. March of the Pharaohs
12. Macedonia (Mark O'Connor and Sam Bush)
13. Song of the Liberty Bell
14. Stone from which the Arch was Made
15. One Winter's Night (Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer)

CD Two

1. Bowtie
2. Butterfly's Day Out (Arrangement Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer)
3. Emily's Reel (Arrangement Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer)
4. Midnight Interlude
5. Picking in the Wind
6. October Impressions
7. Sopping' the Gravy (Public Domain arranged by Mark O'Connor)
8. On a June Day
9. From Panama to El Pichincha
10. Into the Walls of Mandoness
11. Don't Let the Deal Go Down (Public Domain arranged by Mark O'Connor)
12. Soft Gyrations
13. Granny White Special
14. Appalachia Waltz

 

[Dennie]

O.C.M.S. -- CD

Old Crow Medicine Show

2004 Nettwerk Records
Amazon.com

During the "folk music-scare" of the early 1960s, a bunch of white middle-class youths with names like the Greenbriar Boys and the Even Dozen Jug Band discovered the mountain music of the Stanley Brothers, Skillet Lickers, and Uncle Dave Macon and set about introducing it to the country's college kids. Four decades later, the members of OCMS fit the profile of those early revivalists, yet if anything they have tapped deeper into the primal elements of an American art form. As demonstrated on their debut, they have assimilated not just the sound--banjos, harmonicas, acoustic guitar and bass--but more importantly the haunting spirit of music that was made to keep hard times at bay. How else to explain their ability to take a well-worn chestnut like "CC Rider" and infuse it with an energy that reveals once again why it is a classic? Not content to live completely in the past, they wrote "Big Time in the Jungle," which, though it is about Vietnam, could easily be transposed to 2004's desert conflicts. Kindred spirit and producer David Rawlings (Gillian Welch's longtime collaborator) has kept their energy intact, but one can only wonder what sort of magic they must deliver live. --Michael Ross

1. "Tell It to Me" (traditional) - 2:47
2. "Big Time in the Jungle" (Fuqua) - 2:49
3. "Poor Man" (traditional) - 3:35
4. "Tear It Down" (traditional) - 2:11
5. "Hard to Love" (traditional) - 2:30
6. "CC Rider" (traditional) - 3:50
7. "Trials & Troubles" (Secor, Watson) - 2:57
8. "Hard to Tell" (Secor) - 3:15
9. "Take 'Em Away" (Fuqua) - 3:35
10. "We're All in This Together" (Secor, Watson) - 4:50
11. "Wagon Wheel" (Dylan, Secor) - 3:52

 

[Dennie]

Soul Journey -- CD

Gillian Welch

2003 Acony Records
Amazon.com

Blessed with a soulful and expressive voice and an innate grasp of the melodies and themes of traditional country music, Gillian Welch has made three beautiful, often brilliant, albums. Yet, one can make the case that she's still searching for her own true artistic voice. Soul Journey brings her ever closer to that elusive goal. After 2001's austere, solemn, at times inscrutable Time (The Revelator), this follow-up finds Welch showing more warmth, ease, and openness as both singer and songwriter. As the title portends, the concept of travel (physical and emotional) is a prevailing thread throughout these 10 tracks; she sings of rolling stones "on the road to sin," travelers on "black highways," girls "running around with the ragtop down" and "at the station rolling slow." These characters, perhaps autobiographical, are simultaneously searching for and running away from their pasts, while soft drums, fiddles, organs, and Dobros add a welcome bit of lightness. With the trusty David Rawlings again at Welch's side, the songwriting and production till the earth between their old-time heroes and more modern troubadours like Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young (both the bucolic strummer and, on the closing "Wrecking Ball," the ragged electric wanderer). For Welch and for us, Soul Journey is yet another fascinating rest stop on the never-ending road to self-discovery. --Marc Greilsamer

1. "Look at Miss Ohio" (Gillian Welch, David Rawlings) – 4:16
2. "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" (traditional with additional lyrics by Welch) – 2:45
3. "Wayside/Back in Time" (Welch, Rawlings) – 3:28
4. "I Had a Real Good Mother and Father" (traditional with additional lyrics by Welch) – 3:14
5. "One Monkey" (Welch, Rawlings) – 5:36
6. "No One Knows My Name" (Welch, Rawlings, traditional melody) – 3:16
7. "Lowlands" (Welch, Rawlings) – 3:19
8. "One Little Song" (Welch) – 3:12
9. "I Made a Lovers Prayer" (Welch, Rawlings) – 5:03
10. "Wrecking Ball" (Welch, Rawlings) – 4:56

 

[Dennie]

God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise -- CD

Ray LaMontange and the Pariah Dogs

2010 RCA Records

Product Description

Grammy nominated and critically acclaimed, Ray LaMontagne returns with his anticipated fourth studio album, God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise. Entirely self produced (for the first time) the album was recorded in two weeks at LaMontagne's home in the woods of western Massachusetts. The newly restored historic home served as a homemade recording studio for Ray and his fellow musicians. With Ray's vocals at the forefront of the songs and a loose, almost live sounding recording, the album stands as a testament to a band at the height of their powers. The newly coined 'Pariah Dogs', consists of Jay Bellarose (drums), Jennifer Condos (bass), Patrick Warren (keyboard), Eric Heywood (guitar) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar). Individually these musicians have contributed to the live work of such heralded musicians including Beck, Joe Henry, Tom Waits, Lucinda Wlliams, Ryan Adams and Joe Cocker to name a few of their career highlights. Together with Ray they shared a sense that the sessions for this record were rare and extraordinary.

1. Repo Man
2. New York City’s Killing Me
3. God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
4. Beg Steal Or Borrow
5. Are We Really Through
6. This Love Is Over
7. Old Before Your Time
8. For The Summer
9. Like Rock & Roll And Radio
10. Devil’s In The Jukebox

 

[PaulyT]

Oh cool, didn't know R.L. had a new one out, gotta get that one!

 

[nats]

GOT MULE?

goverment mule

 

[Dennie]

 

[Dennie]

Oh cool, didn't know R.L. had a new one out, gotta get that one!

It is my first R.L. album and I'm enjoying it more and more with each listen! :handgestures-thumbup:



Dennie

 

[Dennie]

 

[PaulyT]

It is my first R.L. album and I'm enjoying it more and more with each listen! :handgestures-thumbup:

Dennie

Trouble is great, I highly recommend that one.

 

[Dennie]

Trouble is great, I highly recommend that one.

Thanks Pauly, I will add it to my ever growing "wish list"!


Dennnie

 

[Dennie]

The Rare Delight Of You SACD

John Pizzarelli with The Geroge Shearing Quintet

2002 Telarc Jazz

Amazon.com
The CD photo of this intergenerational collaboration between guitarist-vocalist John Pizzarelli and pianist George Shearing resembles the cover of the 1961 LP Nat King Cole Plays, George Shearing Plays. Like that legendary recording, this project offers clean and lean jazz. The pianist is backed by a combo featuring vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker and drummer Dennis Mackrel. With Pizzarelli's laid-back vocals, the group delivers some beautiful new songs and interesting interpretations of pop standards made famous by Cole, Nancy Wilson, and Peggy Lee. Their version of "If Dreams Come" has an ingenious contrapuntal guitar-piano breakdown. On "The Lady's with You," Shearing slyly drops in a few bars of Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light." And "Something to Remember Me By" has melodic tinges from Claude Thornhill's "Snowflake." "Lost April" captures Pizzarelli and Shearing in a heartfelt duet. Shearing's no-frills piano lines and Pizzarelli's bouncy guitar work are inspired and in-the-pocket. --Eugene Holley Jr.

1. If Dreams Come True
2. The Lady's In Love With You
3. Everything Happens To Me
4. Lulu's Back In Town
5. Something To Remeber You By
6. Lemon Twist
7. Lost Apirl
8. Problem
9. The Rare Delight Of You
10. Shine On Your Shoes
11. Indian Summer
12. Be Careful It's My Heart
13. September In The Rain
14. I Predicit (2001)
15. Lucky To Be Me

 

[Dennie]

Blues for Allah -- CD

Grateful Dead

1975/1995 Grateful Dead Records

Blues for Allah is the eighth studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between February 27 and May 7, 1975 and originally released on September 1, 1975. It was the third release under the band's own label, Grateful Dead Records, after fulfilling their contract with Warner Bros. Records.

It was the first album with Mickey Hart in over four years, and the band's first album since their short hiatus from touring in 1974. Possibly because of late arrival, Mickey Hart's picture does not appear on the back cover.

The album's title track was only performed a handful of times in 1975 and never played again after that, while several other tracks on the album were performed regularly for the rest of the Dead's career.

The album was released for the first time on CD in 1995 by Arista before being remastered, expanded, and released as part of the Beyond Description (1973-1989) 12-CD box set in October 2004. The remastered version was later released separately on CD on March 7, 2006 by Rhino Records.
Side one

1. "Help on the Way" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 3:15
"Slipknot!" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 4:03
2. "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 4:37
3. "King Solomon's Marbles" (Lesh) – 1:55
"Stronger than Dirt or Milkin' the Turkey" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 3:25
4. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, John Perry Barlow – 4:35

Side two

1. "Crazy Fingers" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:41
2. "Sage & Spirit" (Weir) – 3:07
3. "Blues for Allah" (Garcia, Hunter) - 3:21
"Sand Castles & Glass Camels" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Donna Godchaux, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 5:26
"Unusual Occurrences in the Desert" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:48

 

[Dennie]

Shelby's Debut Album.......

Sunrise -- CD
Shelby Lynne
1989 Epic Records

Lynne, the older sister of singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, was first spied on the The Nashville Network (that's what they used to call Spike TV before it started showing Star Wars sequels and CSI reruns 24 hours-a-day) talk show, Nashville Now, back in 1988. She charted a year later singing with the king of country relationship duos, George Jones, on "If I Could Bottle This Up."

Lynne's first album, Sunrise, came out in 1989 on major label, Epic, and she continued to make a steady climb on the charts with five albums through the mid-1990s.

1. The Hurtin' Side
2. Little Bits And Pieces
3. Thinking About You Again
4. This Time I Almost Made It
5. What About This Girl
6. Till You Were Gone
7. I Love You So Much It Hurts
8. That's Where It Hurts
9. I'm Confessin'
10. Your Love Stays With Me

 

[Dennie]

Easy -- CD

Kelly Willis

2002 Rykodisc
Amazon.com

The complexities of love provide plenty of opportunity for rueful reflection on the deceptively titled Easy. Though Kelly Willis has shown that she can belt a country song with the best of them, she opts for a more intimate approach on this collection of midtempo ballads. The arrangements are primarily acoustic and harmony-laden (with Alison Krauss and Vince Gill among those providing vocal support), as Willis draws from the songbooks of husband Bruce Robison ("What Did You Think"), Paul Kelly ("You Can't Take It with You"), Kirsty MacColl ("Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sunny Jim!"), and Marcia Ball ("Find Another Fool"). The singer's own writing extends the artistic progression of her previous album, What I Deserve, with the bittersweet "If I Left You" and the melodic reverie of "Wait Until Dark" (written with John Levanthal) showing how much she has matured as an artist since her days as an alt-country ingénue. Willis saves the best for last with the shimmering transcendence of "Reason to Believe," a celebration of the everyday wonder a baby brings to her mother, providing redemption after all the heartbreak previously evoked. --Don McLeese

1. "If I Left You" (Kelly Willis) – 3:09
2. "Easy (as Falling Apart)" (Willis) – 4:12
3. "What Did You Think" (Bruce Robison) – 3:34
4. "You Can't Take It with You" (Paul Kelly) – 3:03
5. "Getting to Me" (Willis/Gary Louris) – 4:32
6. "Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!" (Kirsty MacColl) – 3:57
7. "Wait Until Dark" (Willis/John Leventhal) – 3:41
8. "Find Another Fool" (Marcia Ball) – 3:14
9. "Not What I Had in Mind" (Willis) – 4:07
10. "Reason to Believe" (Willis) – 3:17

 

[Dennie]

A Little Bit Of Everything -- CD

Billy Currington

2008 Mercury Nashville
Product Description
Billy Currington's third album, Little Bit of Everything, will be released on Oct. 14 by Mercury Nashville. Currington co-produced the album with Carson Chamberlain and co-wrote five of the 12 songs.

"People kept asking what kind of music they'd hear on this next album, whether it was going to be R&B, pop, country or rock, and I seemed to keep saying the same thing," said Currington. "It's going to be a little bit of everything, I guess." Currington has topped the country singles chart with "Good Directions" and "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right."

1. "Swimmin' in Sunshine" (Brett Beavers, Jim Beavers) – 4:46
2. "Life and Love and the Meaning Of" (Billy Currington, Tony Martin, Mark Nesler) – 3:40
3. "Every Reason Not to Go" (Currington, Martin, Nesler) – 4:12
4. "Don't" (J. Beavers, Jonathan Singleton) – 3:57
5. "People Are Crazy" (Bobby Braddock, Troy Jones) – 3:52
6. "Everything" (J. Beavers, Chris Hennessee) – 4:20
7. "Walk On" (Ashley Gorley, Wade Kirby, Bryant Simpson) – 3:58
8. "No One Has Eyes Like You" (Currington, Brett Jones) – 2:58
9. "That's How Country Boys Roll" (Currington, Dallas Davidson, B. Jones) – 3:44
10. "I Shall Return" (Currington, Bob DiPiero, Scotty Emerick) – 3:11
11. "Heal Me" (Tony Stampley, Bonnie Swayze) – 4:09

 

[PaulyT]

This is another "Deserted Island" album, it is truly an amazing album. "Tryin' Times" sounds like it was written for today!! I could go on and on about every song, just get this album/CD/whatever!!!

Ok got it, listening to it, definitely like this one a lot and I'm only partway through the second track! Quite a voice.