What Are You Listening To?

[Dennie]

Hell Among The Yearlings -- CD

Gillian Welch

1998 Acony Records

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

A much more quietly celebrated CD than her debut, Gillian Welch's sophomore effort assured fans of old-timey country folk that she was salt of the earth. Her songs speak with both plaintive yearning and a seasoned storyteller's moxie, urged on by her and David Rawlings's economical guitar picking and strumming. Welch's vocal timbre bears ideally twangy power, giving her a constantly strong vault into her similarly creative tales, which help place this CD clearly in the realm of the exceptional. -- Andrew Bartlett

"Caleb Meyer" – 3:05
"Good Til Now" – 3:56
"The Devil Had a Hold of Me" – 4:30
"My Morphine" – 5:53
"One Morning" – 2:41
"Miner's Refrain" – 3:57
"Honey Now" – 1:52
"I'm Not Afraid to Die" – 3:27
"Rock of Ages" – 3:08
"Whiskey Girl" – 4:15
"Winter's Come and Gone" – 2:14

 

[Dennie]

Only Time Knows -- CD

Barefoot Bluegrass

2001 Barefoot Bluegrass - Fueled by Wild Alaska Salmon :handgestures-thumbup:

Just saw them at Grand Targhee Music Fest '03, August 11, 2003
By william figeley (Michigan -- home of delicous wild salmon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Only Time Knows (Audio CD)

WOW!!! Since the release of Only Time Knows this group has matured and deepend their wonderful sound. Their stage presence was phenomenal, and their mic usage was as good or better than some of the most seasoned veterans. I met Annalisa after their performance and said "Don't change a thing!" If you haven't yet heard of these youngsters, get the CD, sink your teeth in, and prepare to be WOW'd as I was. I've been a bluegrass fan for nigh on 20 years, and have never heard such fine and talented stuff from such young musicians. Their 3-part all-female harmonies are second-to-none. Angela's stirring vocals on a Bonnie Raitt cover blew me away, and Annalisa's soft, sultry voice made my knees weak. Mike and Jason's playing talents are not to be denied, either. Theses guys can pick! Jason would make Bill Monroe proud, and Mike plays the Flatt run like he was born to do it! DON'T MISS OUT! You'll be following instead of leading.

1 True Life Blues
2 Boston Boy
3 When You Say Nothing at All
4 Wheel Hoss
5 Lonesome City
6 Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight
7 Telluride
8 Only Time Knows
9 Everyday I Have To Cry
10 In the Palm of Your Hand
11 I'll Be True
12 Cry, Cry Darlin'
13 Opus 38

 

[heeman]

 

[heeman]

Billy Squire - Absolute Hits

Couldn't find a good album art, let's try this???

Didn't work, maybe Dennie can help me out here??

 

[Dennie]

Billy Squire - Absolute Hits

Couldn't find a good album art, let's try this???

Didn't work, maybe Dennie can help me out here??

:eusa-clap:

I think I might have this album. Now, I'm going to have to look for it.

Great choice Heeman! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

Easy -- CD

Kelly Willis

2002 Rykodisc Records

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

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

 

[heeman]

Billy Squire - Absolute Hits

Couldn't find a good album art, let's try this???

Didn't work, maybe Dennie can help me out here??

:eusa-clap:

I think I might have this album. Now, I'm going to have to look for it.

Great choice Heeman! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

Thanks Dennie! It looks like you are finding these on Amazon, tried that , maybe not the right link.......

Took a trip to the local Best Buys today and picked up a few new ones, Started with the Supertramp, the earlier stuff reminded me of college days!!

Have a great weekend! :music-rockout: :banana-rock: :music-rockout:

 

[Dennie]

Billy Squire - Absolute Hits

Couldn't find a good album art, let's try this???

Didn't work, maybe Dennie can help me out here??

:eusa-clap:

I think I might have this album. Now, I'm going to have to look for it.

Great choice Heeman! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

Thanks Dennie! It looks like you are finding these on Amazon, tried that , maybe not the right link.......

Took a trip to the local Best Buys today and picked up a few new ones, Started with the Supertramp, the earlier stuff reminded me of college days!!

Have a great weekend! :music-rockout: :banana-rock: :music-rockout:

You are correct, my friend. I get most of my album art from amazon.

Great music Heeman! :handgestures-thumbup:

You also have a great weekend, if your music choices are any clue, you ARE having a great weekend! :dance:


Dennie :music-listening:

 

[Dennie]

This Time -- CD

Dwight Yoakam

1993 Reprise Records

Amazon.com
Cover art, front: a behatted (of course) Dwight, face completely hidden. Back: a shapely, half-nude model sporting a Persistence of Memory-style clock eyeing a sink overflowing with water and calendar pages. Title tune: one of Yoakam's most hardcore Bakersfield 'tonkers. It sits alongside a couple of rockers, a handful of inspired weepers, and two inexorably flowing country-pop numbers ("A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" and "Ain't That Lonely Yet") that deserved every second of airplay they got. He'd be even better when he entered the studio again (for Gone), but the only slouching he does here is in the photographs. --Rickey Wright

"Pocket of a Clown" (Dwight Yoakam) – 2:55
"A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" (Yoakam) – 4:27
"Home for Sale" (Yoakam) – 3:35
"This Time" (Yoakam, Kostas) – 3:58
"Two Doors Down" (Yoakam, Kostas) – 3:52
"Ain't That Lonely Yet" (Kostas, James House) – 3:17
"King of Fools" (Yoakam, Kostas) – 4:05
"Fast as You" (Yoakam) – 4:45
"Try Not to Look So Pretty" (Yoakam, Kostas) – 2:52
"Wild Ride" (Yoakam) – 4:42
"Lonesome Roads" (Yoakam) – 3:05

 

[Rope]

Rope

 

[Dennie]

Other Roads -- CD

Boz Scaggs

1988 Columbia Records

Free to be 'Boz', August 17, 2001
By Cath (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Other Roads (Audio CD)

"Other Roads" shows Boz Scaggs' amazing versatility as an artist. He pours his soul -- not to mention his one-of-a-kind vocals -- into rock, blues, pop and jazz, to make a music that is uniquely his. Like ballads? "Heart of Mine" is a classic. If you're more into fusion, the tight, funky guitar and keyboard instrumentals in "Mental Shakedown" and "Crimes of Passion" will definitely get your attention. Each track on this album explores melody, lyrics and arrangement for a very satisfying listen. Boz freely ventures down 'other roads,' and lucky us ... we get to go along and see the musical stuff he's made of.

"What's Number One?" (Boz Scaggs, J. C. Carroll, Marcus Miller) – 3:58
"Claudia" (Scaggs, Larry Williams) – 4:07
"Heart of Mine" (Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff) – 4:12
"Right Out of My Head" (Scaggs, D. Tyler Huff) – 5:24
"I Don't Hear You" (J.C. Carroll, D. Tyler Huff) – 4:41
"Mental Shakedown" (Scaggs, Guy Allison Steiner, David Williams) – 4:10
"Crimes of Passion" (J.C. Carroll, D. Tyler Huff) – 4:00
"Funny" (Scaggs, Marcus Miller) – 5:49
"Cool Running" (Scaggs, Patrick Leonard, David Williams) – 4:14
"The Night of Van Gogh" (Scaggs, Bobby Caldwell, Peter Wolf) – 4:20

 

[heeman]

Track listingAll songs written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except where noted.

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "I've Got a Life" 4:05
2. "Love Is a Stranger" 3:42
3. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" 3:36
4. "Who's That Girl?" 3:44
5. "Right by Your Side" 3:49
6. "Here Comes the Rain Again" 4:51
7. "Would I Lie to You?" 4:26
8. "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" 4:41
9. "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (with Aretha Franklin) 4:53
10. "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)" 3:47
11. "When Tomorrow Comes" Lennox, Stewart, Patrick Seymour 4:15
12. "Thorn in My Side" 4:13
13. "The Miracle of Love" 4:35
14. "Missionary Man" 3:47
15. "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" 3:52
16. "I Need a Man" 4:23
17. "I Saved the World Today" 4:26
18. "17 Again" 4:20
19. "Was It Just Another Love Affair?" 3:50

 

[Dennie]

Some Girls -- Mini LP - CD

The Rolling Stones

1978/1994 Virgin Benelux B.Y.


Amazon.com essential recording
A fresh, uncompromising attempt to incorporate 1978 pop techniques into the band's familiar sound, Some Girls opens with the disco sass of "Miss You" and closes with the self-destructive punk of "Shattered." (Both songs, especially "Miss You," with its distinctive Mel Collins sax solo, remain live showstoppers.) So the Stones declared credibility in the dance circuit without sacrificing their hard-rock reputation. Though the anti-love "Beast of Burden" and the stylishly slow "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" continue to rack up the most airplay, the obscurities stand up surprisingly well. Worth replaying: Keith Richards's rickety rocker "Before They Make Me Run." --Steve Knopper


1. "Miss You" 4:48
2. "When the Whip Comes Down" 4:20
3. "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" (Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong) 4:38
4. "Some Girls" 4:36
5. "Lies" 3:11
6. "Far Away Eyes" 4:24
7. "Respectable" 3:06
8. "Before They Make Me Run" 3:25
9. "Beast of Burden" 4:25
10. "Shattered" 3:48


12740

 

[Dennie]

:bow-blue:

Rickie Lee Jones -- CD

Rickie Lee Jones

1979/1990 Reprise Records

Amazon.com

The breezy melodies and jazz stylings of Rickie Lee Jones's debut album are usually found in the works of more mature pop artists. It's only the exuberance of Jones's often cackling voice that reminds you that a 23-year-old is at the controls. And Jones's "little girl lost" perspective, while hanging out in mid-1970s Los Angeles with neo-Beat songwriters-barroom troubadours Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss, makes for colorful storytelling. In fact, her tale about Weiss, "Chuck E.'s in Love," hit the Top 10. But there's a lot more elegant stuff here: "Last Chance Texaco" is a soaring ballad about automobiles and broken hearts, and the Sinatra-esque "After Hours" features a lonely Jones singing to a lamppost. --Bill Crandall

Songs written by Rickie Lee Jones, except where noted.

1. "Chuck E.'s In Love" 3:28
2. "On Saturday Afternoons In 1963" – 2:31
3. "Night Train" – 3:14
4. "Young Blood" – 4:04
5. "Easy Money" – 3:16
6. "The Last Chance Texaco" – 4:05
7. "Danny's All-Star Joint" – 4:01
8. "Coolsville" – 3:49
9. "Weasel And The White Boys Cool" (Rickie Lee Jones, Alfred Johnson) – 6:00
10. "Company" (Rickie Lee Jones, Alfred Johnson) – 4:40
11. "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Midnight)" – 2:13

 

[Dennie]

Another Great RLJ album....

Pop Pop -- CD

Rickie Lee Jones

1991 Geffen Records

Rickie Lee Jones's almost perfect Record, September 18, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Pop Pop (Audio CD)

If I had to choose a favorite Rickie Lee Jones record, it would be a difficult choice but Pop Pop might just be my final decision. From the first chords on an acoustic nylon string guitar on the first track you know you're in for a treat. More than any other of her albums, Pop Pop captures the magic that Rickie Lee Jones delivers on stage if you catch her in a small venue. Jazz legends Charlie Haden on bass, Joe Henderson on Sax and Robben Ford on acoustic guitar offer up jaw dropping performances throughout Pop Pop. When it comes to subtle jazz instrumentation and pitch perfect vocals, it doesn't get much better than this. Add to that, the gorgeous quality of the recording and you have the basic ingredients for a near perfect pop/jazz album that seems to have rarely left my cd player for almost a decade. Stand out tracks include: My One and Only Love, Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, Jimi Hendrix's Up From The Skies, Second Time Around, and Bye Bye Blackbird.

Track listing

1. My One and Only Love
2. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most
3. Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
4. Up From the Skies
5. Second Time Around
6. Dat Dere
7. I'll Be Seeing You
8. Bye Bye Blackbird
9. Ballad of the Sad Young Men, The
10. I Won't Grow Up
11. Love Junkyard
12. Comin' Back to Me

Bonus Info From Rickie Lee Jones:

"The album's got a kind of old flavor about it. There's no electric music, no keyboard and no drums. A couple of songs have snare and a bongo, but no
drum kit. Real intimate. It's real nice listening. [The album's] just what I wanted to do, what I like to listen to. All standards."

"I can't remember when I decided on just guitar and bass. I was thinking about it for a couple of years, because I had practiced 'Valentine' with a guitar and bass when I lived in France and said 'Oh, that's eally beautiful and different without a keyboard.' I think I got the idea then and it was growing on me. [That sparer sound] is what I grew up with. My uncle and my dad used to play together all the time: they would sing those standards with the guitar so for me it's the most natural sounding."

"It's not jazz in the way that people who like jazz like jazz. It's my own way of looking at it. The album is old, it's very special."
(Rickie Lee Jones)

 

[Botch]

RLJ's debut is an incredible album (her sophomore effort, Pirates, is on my Top Ten of All Time) but I have yet to listen to Pop Pop all the way through; I HATE it!
Weird... :think:

 

[Dennie]

RLJ's debut is an incredible album (her sophomore effort, Pirates, is on my Top Ten of All Time) but I have yet to listen to Pop Pop all the way through; I HATE it!
Weird... :think:

Funny! Because when I put it in, the first thing I thought was, "you'd have to be a REAL FAN to like this album". I love the songs and she does a "unique interpretation" of these great "standards". I've had this album for a number of years and it is an "acquired taste"! If you don't already like Rickie, this is not the album to start with.

I really enjoy it! :dance:

Pauly might be interested in "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men", as he's heard one of the best sing it, Roberta Flack! But, I'm not sure he'd like the rest of the album, upon first listen. :confusion-shrug:


Dennie

 

[Kazaam]

When did Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, erm, I mean Tim Allen put out a record?
Sorry. I don't know why I can't resist posting crap like this.
:doh:

 

[Dennie]

When did Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, erm, I mean Tim Allen put out a record?
Sorry. I don't know why I can't resist posting crap like this.
:doh:

That's Funny!

I laugh every time I pull that album out. Was Boz trying to be cool? :laughing-rolling:


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

Both Sides Now -- CD

Joni Mitchell

2000 Warner Bros. Records

An Older and Wiser Look at Clouds, Love, and Life, February 12, 2010
By Marky (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Both Sides Now (Audio CD)

I just watched the opening ceremonies of the winter olympics in Vancouver, and of course, Joni's re-imagined arrangement of "Both Sides Now" that was first recorded for this project was used in a very significant way in those ceremonies. I have always loved Joni Mitchell, and appreciated what she tried to do with this project. But, tonight . . . it seems that I finally got it. One still has the image of the young Joni singing this song with her guitar as the only accompaniment, her voice light and ethereal and even innocent. (YouTube helps in that regard) Well, she's no longer young and innocent, and the contrast between the young Joni and the mature Joni is enormous. The voice, deeper and richer, in places revealing the wear and tear of a lifetime of cigarettes and living the life of a musician. The song, now sung with sadness and hints of regret. I've heard many say that this song was the weakest element of this project, and I've never really disagreed. But, until tonight, I'd never listened to it outside of the context of this particular production. It got to me, tonight -- I was moved to tears. I have little respect for aging artists who are still trying to do what they did when they were teenagers. (Reference - The Who at last weekend's Super Bowl Halftime Show) I admire an artist whose music changes as he or she ages. When you've lived a while, you sing about both sides of clouds, and love, and life from a different point of view than you did when you were young. And, it can be a beautiful thing. Thanks, Joni.

"You're My Thrill" (Sidney Clare, Jay Gorney) — 3:52
"At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) — 4:28
"Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) — 4:29
"You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) — 5:00
"Answer Me, My Love" (Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler) — 3:23
"A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell) — 5:52
"Don't Go to Strangers" (Redd Evans, Arthur Kent, David Mann) — 4:10
"Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) — 3:58
"Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) —– 3:49
"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) — 3:07
"I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) — 3:36
"Both Sides, Now" (Joni Mitchell) — 5:45