What Are You Listening To?

[Dennie]

I'm standing on shakey Ground

It Looks Like Snow

Phoebe Snow

1976 Columbia Records

Deft interpretations, touching originals., July 10, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: It Looks Like Snow (Audio CD)

Snow has a wide range and an excellent sense of nuance. She is easily one of the best interpretive singers of her generation (i.e., early '70s singer/songwriters). Only unlike some of her peers she is a master of not only pop, rock and folk styles but jazz, blues, standards, soul and gospel material.

On her third album she gives beautifully nuanced, winning intepretations of "Teach Me Tonight" (an oft covered standard perfectly done here); "Don't Let Me Down" and "Shakey Ground."

She gives a sexy, bluesy performance on "In My Girlish Days."Mercy On Those" is emotionally compelling, building to a smart climax.

Her own compositions such as "Autobiography" and "Stand Up On The Rock" are spirited, musically adventurous numbers that showcase her potent voice and sensitive songwriting pen.

After you purchase her debut or one of her two collections, this is the next logical place to go. Excellent.

Track listing
1. Autobiography (Shine, Shine, Shine)
2. Teach Me Tonight
3. Stand Up on the Rock
4. In My Girlish Days
5. Mercy on Those
6. Don't Let Me Down
7. Drink Up the Melody (Bite the Dust, Blues)
8. Fat Chance
9. My Faith Is Blind
10. Shakey Ground

 

[Yesfan70]

Boston

Boston

1976 Epic Records

Amazon.com
"Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar orchestra to a pitch that a thousand subsequent album-rockers couldn't resist. And why should they? Where the band's later records were hardly worthy of note, Boston pulls together classic after classic: "More Than a Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Hitch a Ride." The pseudo-cosmic ambience invites scoffs as the year 2000 recedes into the past, but it's really just part of the disc's charm. Let it take you home tonight. --Rickey Wright Side one

No. Title Length
1. "More Than a Feeling" 4:45
2. "Peace of Mind" 5:02
3. "Foreplay/Long Time" 7:47

Side two

No. Title Length
1. "Rock & Roll Band" 3:00
2. "Smokin'" (Scholz, Brad Delp) 4:22
3. "Hitch a Ride" 4:11
4. "Something About You" 3:48
5. "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" (Delp) 4:43

I have that album remastered on CD. They did a hell of a job on it too. Worth getting if you don't have it.


I remember listening to that album a LOT on 8-track when I was a kid. To this day when listening to "Hitch A Ride", I keep wanting to hear a fade out/"cachunk"/fade in when the end guitar solo starts.

 

[Dennie]

One more before Dinner.....

Never Letting Go

Phoebe Snow

1977 Columbia Records

A Classic to Hold On To, February 4, 2000
By J. Michael Click (Fort Worth, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Never Letting Go (Audio CD)

Over 20 years ago, I heard an achingly beautiful song that has haunted me ever since. I didn't catch its name, but I kept singing a bit of the chorus to record store employees and DJs, hoping someone could identify it for me. No luck! And then one day while surfing amazon.com, I started sampling audio clips and I found it: "Majesty of Life" by Phoebe Snow. I ordered the CD, hoping the song would be even half as sensitive and tender as I remembered it, filled with great hopes and fond expectations.

Happily, the album didn't disappoint me in the slightest. "Majesty of Life" is every bit as sweet an expression of yearning in the year 2000 as it was back in 1977, and the other songs on the album are equally timeless (particularly the passionate title track). Miss Snow's vocals throughout are superb; her style is undated and the recording is crisp and clear. This is an album to treasure; I, for one, will never let it go ...

"Love Makes a Woman" (Carl Davis, Eugene Record, William Sanders, Gerald Simms) – 3:21
"Majesty of Life" – 3:36
"Ride the Elevator" – 3:55
"Something So Right" (Paul Simon) – 4:02
"Never Letting Go" (Stephen Bishop) – 3:12
"We're Children" – 3:01
"Middle of the Night" – 3:33
"Electra" – 3:53
"Garden of Joy Blues" (Clifford Hayes) – 4:31

 

[Dennie]

Boston

Boston

1976 Epic Records

Amazon.com
"Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar orchestra to a pitch that a thousand subsequent album-rockers couldn't resist. And why should they? Where the band's later records were hardly worthy of note, Boston pulls together classic after classic: "More Than a Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Hitch a Ride." The pseudo-cosmic ambience invites scoffs as the year 2000 recedes into the past, but it's really just part of the disc's charm. Let it take you home tonight. --Rickey Wright Side one

No. Title Length
1. "More Than a Feeling" 4:45
2. "Peace of Mind" 5:02
3. "Foreplay/Long Time" 7:47

Side two

No. Title Length
1. "Rock & Roll Band" 3:00
2. "Smokin'" (Scholz, Brad Delp) 4:22
3. "Hitch a Ride" 4:11
4. "Something About You" 3:48
5. "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" (Delp) 4:43

I have that album remastered on CD. They did a hell of a job on it too. Worth getting if you don't have it.


I remember listening to that album a LOT on 8-track when I was a kid. To this day when listening to "Hitch A Ride", I keep wanting to hear a fade out/"cachunk"/fade in when the end guitar solo starts.

I have the remastered CD also.

Didn't you love it when a song was on track 1 and 2, we all use to wait for the "cachunk" and the song to begin again. LOL :laughing-rolling:

But the cool thing was, we could now play albums in the car! Sweet!! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

 

[Yesfan70]

I had quite a few 8-tracks like that....Ok, they were my mom's, but I played them more than she did. The ones that stand out for me were:

Boston - Boston
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Alabama - My Home's In Alabama


and a shit load of Seger.


Yeah, it was great being able to have your music in the car, instead of having to rely on the tuner.

 

[Dennie]

I had quite a few 8-tracks like that....Ok, they were my mom's, but I played them more than she did. The ones that stand out for me were:

Boston - Boston
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Alabama - My Home's In Alabama


and a shit load of Seger.


Yeah, it was great being able to have your music in the car, instead of having to rely on the tuner.

I remember adding an FM tuner to my Mom and Dads Car. It only had AM Radio and I think the FM Tuner hooked up through the antenna. I was like 10, so that would have been around 1974-ish.

Then we put in the 8 Track player and we could play albums. :music-rockout:

I still have a box of 8 Tracks around here somewhere. :think:



Dennie

 

[Yesfan70]

I used to have an 8-track player and some tapes a friend of mine gave to me years back. I can't remember what I done with them, but I think I posted a couple of pics back on S+V during my early days. LOL!

 

[Botch]

My uncle gave me my first 8-track player, from Montgomery Wards! :music-rockout: Installed it myself (in the garage in South Dakota immediately after Christmas) in my babe-magnet Ford Maverick, and I started recording my Chicago albums to 8-track blanks. Only commercial release I ever got was FZ's Studio Tan; a bit bizarre even for Frank. :shock:

 

[Dennie]

Well, I've had this on vinyl for years, but I just picked up the Remastered CD! :happy-partydance:

Keep The Customer Satisfied - Recorded Live -- CD

Buddy Rich Big Band

1972/2001 Pacific Jazz

Keep The Customer Satisfied - Buddy Rich, February 16, 2002
By Norman Zierler (New Hartford, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Keep The Customer Satisfied (Audio CD)

Thank heaven Pacific Jazz (thanks to former Buddy trumpeter Dean Pratt) is rereleasing Buddy's big band albums of the 60's and
early 70's. On this CD Buddy comes out blazing as usual and never lets up. The arrangements are tight and swinging, and Buddy drives the band with his unmatched power. Listen to the
driving 3/4 time of Long Day's Journey, then get rocked by Don Menza's arrangement of Groovin Hard. Before you have a chance to catch your breath, your blown away by Roger Neuman's chart for
The Juicer is Wild and Bill Holman's Winning the West. DYNAMITE!!

LP side A

"Keep the Customer Satisfied" (Paul Simon) – 6:40
"Long Day's Journey" (Don Piestrup) – 4:42
Midnight Cowboy Medley: "He Quit Me Man"/"Everybody's Talkin'"/"Tears" (Warren Zevon)/(Fred Neil) – 11:12

LP side B

"Celebration" (Piestrup) – 3:35
"Groovin' Hard" (Don Menza) – 5:25
"The Juicer Is Wild" (Neil, Roger Neuman) – 4:32
"Winning the West" (Bill Holman) – 7:30

Bonus tracks on CD re-issues:

"Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:54
"Happy Time" (Mike Hughes) – 3:57
"The Nitty Gritty" (Lincoln Chase) – 4:07
"Straight and Narrow" (Piestrup) – 4:17
"Groovin' Hard" (Menza) – 5:54
"Cornerstone" (Ted Pease) – 4:45

 

[Dennie]

This came out today...... :bow-blue:

Hard Bargain -- Deluxe Edition CD/DVD

Emmylou Harris

Today Nonesuch Records

Hard Bargain is Emmylou's finest work., April 26, 2011
By Robert G Yokoyama (Mililani, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Hard Bargain (Audio CD)

"Hard Bargain" is an album that features eleven new songs. Emmylou has never sounded better. Her voice conveys warmth, joy and empathy on these tracks. "Hard Bargain" is about having the strength to move on in life despite feeling weary. I like the banjo playing on this song. "New Orleans" is an up tempo song about the resilience of the city of New Orleans. "Big Black Dog" is an enjoyable song about finding homes for homeless dogs. "Nobody" is a song about feeling comfortable about being single. This song is also about having hope that love is right around the corner. "My Name is Emmett Till" is a song about a black teenager who was killed in 1955 for talking to a white woman. Emmylou is a great story teller. This song proves it. Emmett Till death started the civil rights movement and the call for peace. Emmylou conveys this in the song. Her vocals are very moving on this song. "The Road" is a song about Emmylou's singing partner Gram Parsons who died in 1973. This tune is about the special relationship they had with each other. "Ship on His Arm" is the best love song on this album. This song is very pretty. It is the first song that contains a reference to a tattoo in it. "Six White Cadillacs" is a song that puts me in a good mood. I love the spirited tone of this song. "Darlin' Kate" is a beautiful song about saying farewell to a loved one. The musical arrangements of this song are so beautiful. "Goodnight Old World" is a song that gives me a sense of peace. "Home Sweet Home" is a song that makes me appreciate my home. Emmylou caresses every note on this song perfectly. This song is very pleasant. "Cross Yourself" has a spiritual tone that I really like. "Lonely Girl" is a lovely tune. Emmylou's voice makes me feel a sense of empathy for all the lonely girls in the world. This is a very enjoyable album from Emmylou Harris.

"The Road" (Harris) – 5:31
"Home Sweet Home" (Harris) – 3:45
"My Name is Emmett Till" (Harris) – 4:53
"Goodnight Old World" (Harris, Will Jennings) – 3:55
"New Orleans" (Harris, Will Jennings) – 3:38
"Big Black Dog" (Harris) – 3:26
"Lonely Girl" (Harris) – 4:44
"Hard Bargain" (Ron Sexsmith) – 3:23
"Six White Cadillacs" (Harris, Will Jennings) – 3:22
"The Ship on His Arm" (Harris) – 4:46
"Darlin' Kate" (Harris) – 3:08
"Nobody" (Harris) – 5:04
"Cross Yourself" (Jay Joyce) – 3:36

Deluxe Edition includes a DVD that features six performances interspersed with interviews.

1. DVD: Six White Cadillacs
2. DVD: Goodnight Old World
3. DVD: Home Sweet Home
4. DVD: Darlin' Kate
5. DVD: Big Black Dog
6. DVD: The Road

 

[Botch]

This came out today...... :bow-blue:

Hard Bargain -- Deluxe Edition CD/DVD

Emmylou Harris

How do you like it, Dennie? I'm in Tooele for the week and have been reading the Salt Lake Tribune instead of the Ogden paper, and the music critic in the SLT said this was her worst recording ever, due to her own songwriting.

 

[Dennie]

This came out today...... :bow-blue:

Hard Bargain -- Deluxe Edition CD/DVD

Emmylou Harris

How do you like it, Dennie? I'm in Tooele for the week and have been reading the Salt Lake Tribune instead of the Ogden paper, and the music critic in the SLT said this was her worst recording ever, due to her own songwriting.

I liked it. I think it is more intimate or raw, because she wrote most of the songs. Not all of the songs have strong lyrics, "Big Black Dog" is not a feat in song writing, but I don't think it is supposed to be. "My Name is Emmit Till" is quite moving and real. I think this is Emmylou singin' songs she needs/wants to sing. Some are up beat "New Orleans" and some not, but hey this is bluegrass/folk/Country, afterall.

I've only listened to it once and had two phone calls soooo, first impression is I like it! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

Daybreak -- CD

Bela Fleck

1987 Rounder Records

Early & Obscure , but First Class Fleck, August 28, 2006
By jimnypivo "Jim Hisson" (west of Chicago, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daybreaker (Audio CD)

Whenever I press a Bela Fleck disc into a friend's hand, I and ask them to listen to it,because Fleck is a virtuoso, a master of his instrument. Over the years, Bela Fleck continued to incorporate various styles into his recordings. 1988's `Daybreak' gives you a taste of how well-versed he is in playing other musical genres.

Bela stays faithful to his NewGrass style on `Texas Barbeque', `Twilight`, `Reading in the Dark', `Applebutter', `Dawg's Due' (a David Grisman tune); `Crossfire', and `Punchdrunk'.

There are jazz tunes: Spain'-- a few bars into it you'll recognize this Chic Corea favorite; and a honky-tonk version of Fats Waller's `How Can You Face Me Now' (with vocal).

This would not be a Bela Fleck disc few without a traditional bluegrass melody. This disc has several: `Bill Cheatham' featuring Bill Keith and Bela in a banjo duet; a joyful, bouncy version of `Silverbell` and a NewGrass-y version of `Fiddler's Dream'.

He also throws in a few Celtic songs---- 'Growling Old Man and the Grumbling Old Woman' and 'Christina's Jig/Plain Brown Jug'

For fans of his later `jazzgrass' sound with the Flecktones, `Daybreak', `Flexibility', `Old Hickory Waltz' and `The Natural Bridge Suite' (reminiscent of Stephane Grappelli/Django Rheinhart) won't disappoint.

If you'd like to hear more examples of Fleck's virtuosity, catch his Grammy-winning recording of classical music, 'Perpetual Motion'.

All tracks written by Béla Fleck except where noted

Texas Barbeque
Spain
Twilight (Corea, Rodrigo)
Reading in the Dark
Growling Old Man and the Grumbling Old Woman (trad.)
How Can You Face Me (Razaf, Waller)
Bill Cheatham (trad.)
Christina's Jig / Plain Brown Jig
Silver Bell (trad.)
Fiddler's Dream (trad.)
Daybreak
Dawg's Due
Flexibility
Old Hickory Waltz
Crossfire
Applebutter
The Natural Bridge Suite
Punch Drunk


Béla Fleck - banjo, guitar
Tony Trischka, Bill Keith - banjo
Russ Barenberg, Glenn Lawson, David Parmley - guitar
Sam Bush, Randy Sabien - fiddle
Mark O'Connor - fiddle, guitar, viola
Darol Anger - fiddle, violectra
Jerry Douglas, Stacy Philips - Dobro
David Grisman, Jimmy Gaudreau, Jack Tottle - mandolin
Paul Kahn, Mark Schatz - bass
Pat Enright - vocals

 

[heeman]

A little Triumph!! :music-rockout: :music-rockout:

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music......

Concert For George -- 2 CD Set

Various Artists

2003 Warner Bros. Records

must have for George Harrison fans, January 31, 2010
By C. Clark "viet vet" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Concert for George (Audio CD)

Arranged by Jeff Lynn (ELO, Travelling Willburys) and Eric Clapton as a tribute to George one year after his passing, this is a live performance in Albert Hall in London with studio-quality accoustics and all songs are written by George Harrison with just a couple exceptions. Rent the dvd video also for even better experience! My favorite is "I need you" performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Great album with a dream team of Harrison-era contemporaries performing! Paul McCartney and Ringo were great but arguably upstaged by Billy Preston on the organ and lead vocal on "Isn't it a pity" and "My Sweet Lord."

Disc one

"Sarve Shaam" (Ravi Shankar) – 3:18
"Your Eyes (Sitar Solo)" (Ravi Shankar), performed by Anoushka Shankar – 8:23
"The Inner Light", performed by Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison and Anoushka Shankar – 3:02
Originally the B-side to The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" in 1968
"Arpan" (Ravi Shankar), conducted by Anoushka Shankar – 23:02

Disc two

"I Want to Tell You", performed by Jeff Lynne – 2:53
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver
"If I Needed Someone", performed by Eric Clapton – 2:29
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul
"Old Brown Shoe", performed by Gary Brooker – 3:48
Originally the B-side to The Beatles' "The Ballad of John and Yoko" in 1969
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", performed by Jeff Lynne – 3:29
Originally heard on Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World
"Beware of Darkness", performed by Eric Clapton – 4:01
Originally heard on Harrison's 1970 album All Things Must Pass
"Here Comes the Sun", performed by Joe Brown – 3:09
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road
"That's the Way It Goes", performed by Joe Brown – 3:40
Originally heard on Harrison's 1982 album Gone Troppo
"Taxman", performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – 3:11
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver
"I Need You", performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – 3:00
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1965 album Help!
"Handle With Care" (Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison), performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison – 3:27
Originally heard on Traveling Wilburys' 1988 album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
"Isn't It a Pity", performed by Billy Preston – 6:58
Originally heard on Harrison's 1970 album All Things Must Pass
"Photograph" (Harrison, Richard Starkey), performed by Ringo Starr – 3:57
Originally heard on Ringo Starr's 1973 album Ringo
"Honey Don't" (Carl Perkins), performed by Ringo Starr – 3:04
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1964 album Beatles for Sale
"For You Blue", performed by Paul McCartney – 3:05
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be
"Something", performed by Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton – 4:26
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road
"All Things Must Pass", performed by Paul McCartney – 3:33
Originally heard on Harrison's 1970 album All Things Must Pass
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps", performed by Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton – 5:57
Originally heard on The Beatles' 1968 double album The Beatles
"My Sweet Lord", performed by Billy Preston – 5:03
Originally heard on Harrison's 1970 album All Things Must Pass
"Wah-Wah", performed by Eric Clapton and Band – 6:06
Originally heard on Harrison's 1970 album All Things Must Pass
"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn), performed by Joe Brown – 4:02

 

[PaulyT]

:text-bravo:

 

[topper]

a little very good acoustic delta blues . . . .

(2005 Telarc release)


Track Listing ~
1. From The Dust
2. One Way Down
3. The Gate
4. David Had The Blues
5. Big As Texas
6. High Water Everywhere
7. I Be Bound
8. Stones In My Passway
9. Dry Spell Blues
10. Fargo Baby
11. Runaway Dog
12. Take A Train
13. Remember
14. Unprecedented Quiet


[a personal favorite] ` ` ` :handgestures-thumbup:

 

[topper]

Wow! how ironic . . . .

two posts of the same cd .... 6 minutes apart . . . .

:text-nocomment:

 

[PaulyT]

No biggie - she's good, deserves to be mentioned often. I have five of her albums now, and a concert DVD. :music-listening:

 

[Dennie]

Wow! how ironic . . . .

two posts of the same cd .... 6 minutes apart . . . .

:text-nocomment:

I thought you two planned that!

That is quite the coincident! :think:


Dennie bscene-drinkingcheers: