What Are You Listening To?

[Dennie]

"I wanna do right! But not right now!" from "Look at Miss Ohio" ........ :handgestures-thumbup:

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

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

 

[No-L]

Dennie -
Do you have this Collection?
It's the ultimate Aretha compilation. It's FANTASTIC!

Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings

It's a four cd set with a fantastic booklet.

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening.....

Eliane Elias Plays Jobim -- CD

Eliane Elias

1990 Blue Note Records

Unique blend of jazz and Brazil, January 25, 2000
By bossa_nova (Kent) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plays Jobim (Audio CD)

I love this album and play it all the time. The material is great, and Elias has a unique approach which blends cool and vibrant jazz with a subtle Brazilian rhythmic flow. Her support too is excellent, with Eddie Gomez playing melodic bass lines that at times sound like a pizzicato 'cello or even a guitar! Both percussionists play with great subtlety and together they create a magical soundworld, heard to best advantage on the elusive 'Sabia'. This track and 'Zingaro' are truly haunting. Jazz fans will love what Eliane does with 'One Note Samba' and 'Desafinado' and there is plenty of lively and witty soloing along with the ballads. Highly recommended.

1 Waters of March (Aguas de Março) DeMoraes, Jobim 4:45
2 Sabiá Buarque, Gimbel, Jobim 3:01
3 Passarim Jobim, Jobim 5:10
4 Don't Ever Go Away Jobim, Gilbert, Duran 8:26
5 Desafinado Mendonça, Lees, Jobim 6:30
6 Angela Jobim 5:30
7 Children's Games Jobim 8:51
8 Dindi Jobim, Gilbert 5:45
9 Zingaro Buarque, Jobim 2:23
10 One Note Samba Hendricks, Jobim, Mendonca 4:23
11 Don't Ever Go Away [Por Causa de Voce] Jobim, Duran 2:59

 

[Dennie]

Dennie -
Do you have this Collection?
It's the ultimate Aretha compilation. It's FANTASTIC!

Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings

It's a four cd set with a fantastic booklet.

No, I wish I did. I do have most of the "Rhino" remastered CD's and love them. I'll ask my "used music dealer" to keep a look out for that boxed set.

Thanks for posting it.... :handgestures-thumbup:



Dennie

 

[heeman]

Whitesnake - Slide It In! 1984

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Slide It In" Coverdale 3:20
2. "Slow an' Easy" Coverdale, Moody 6:08
3. "Love Ain't No Stranger" 4:18
4. "All or Nothing" 3:40
5. "Gambler" 3:58
6. "Guilty of Love" Coverdale 3:24
7. "Hungry for Love" Coverdale 3:28
8. "Give Me More Time" 3:42
9. "Spit It Out" 4:26
10. "Standing in the Shadow" Coverdale 3:42

 

[Dennie]

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

Kamakiriad -- CD

Donald Fagen

1993 Reprise Records

Fagen's Cool Concept Album, July 24, 2002
By Alan Caylow (USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Kamakiriad (Audio CD)

Donald Fagen's 2nd solo album, 1993's "Kamakiriad," came darn close to being released as a Steely Dan album---Fagen's old Dan co-hort, Walter Becker, produced the album, plays guitar on it, and co-wrote the song "Snowbound," t'boot. But since Fagen practically wrote everything else for the album on his own, "Kamakiriad" was ultimately released as a Donald Fagen solo album (and the official return of Steely Dan would have to wait until 2000's "Two Against Nature"). But no matter---this "almost Steely Dan" album is simply terrific, filled with all of the high trademark qualities you'd expect in the music of a Dan man. It's a cool mixture of cocktail jazz/pop, featuring Fagen's hip vocals, cookin' guitars, fat drums, smooth keyboards, happenin' horns, and, for the cherry on top, great sound & production that's very crisp. Not only that, but "Kamakiriad" is a cool *concept* album, telling the story of an Everyman living sometime in the future, who takes off for a spin in his technological wonder car of the 21st century, the Kamakiri, and has several adventures along the way. Being a single album rather than a double, the storyline for "Kamakiriad" may be a lot thinner than, say, The Who's "Tommy" or Pink Floyd's "The Wall," but I don't think Fagen was trying to compete with these double-album rock epics, and the story he tells here is nice & simple, to the point, and a lot of fun, just like the songs themselves.So, hop in the car, hit the "Trans-Island Skyway," admire the "Countermoon," take your pick of "Tomorrow's Girls," chill out "On The Dunes," and head out to that "Teahouse On The Tracks." Donald Fagen's "Kamakiriad" is a wonderful ride.

"Trans-Island Skyway" (Fagen) – 6:30
"Countermoon" (Fagen) – 5:05
"Springtime" (Fagen) – 5:06
"Snowbound" (Walter Becker, Fagen) – 7:08
"Tomorrow's Girls" (Fagen) – 6:17
"Florida Room" (Fagen, Libby Titus) – 6:02
"On the Dunes" (Fagen) – 8:07
"Teahouse on the Tracks" (Fagen) – 6:09

 

[No-L]

 

[heeman]

All songs written by Joan Osborne, Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff unless otherwise indicated.

"St. Teresa" – 5:20
"Man in the Long Black Coat" (Bob Dylan) – 4:49
"Right Hand Man" (Osborne, Bazilian, Hyman, Chertoff, Don Van Vliet) – 4:57
"Pensacola" – 4:32
"Dracula Moon" – 6:32
"One of Us" (Bazilian) – 5:21
"Ladder" – 4:11
"Spider Web" (Osborne, Chertoff, Gary Lucas, Sammy Merendino, Chris Palmaro) – 5:34
"Let's Just Get Naked" (Osborne, Bazilian) – 5:08
"Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ralph Bass) – 5:14
"Crazy Baby" (Osborne) – 6:31
"Lumina" (Osborne, Bazilian) – 3:08

 

[Dennie]

New Grass - Modern Bluegrass -- CD

Various Artists

2000 K-Tel Records

Good CD for blugrass beginners February 11, 2001
By Trenton Arnold
Format:Audio CD

This CD provides any new listener to bluegrass a good starting point. The songs are enjoyable and simple, especially Bela Fleck's contribution and the new version of "Blackjack Davy." I would have liked to seen more of the instrumentals of driving bluegrass, and this is the main item that kept it from getting 5 stars. If you are looking for a first jaunt into bluegrass, this is a safe bet.

Track Listing
1. You're In My Heart - Rhonda Vincent
2. You Still Call Me Baby - Mountain Heart
3. New Chance Blues - Norman Blake/Tony Rice
4. No One Here to Love Me Now - David Parmley
5. I'm Not the First - Larry Cordle/Lonesome Standard Time
6. What Kind Of Person - Salamander Crossing
7. Joy, Joy, Joy - Jim Lauderdale/Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys/Ralph Stanley
8. When Joy Kills Sorrow - Béla Fleck
9. Likes of You, The - Lynn Morris
10. Black Mountain Rag - Dan Crary
11. Black Jack Davey - Chesapeake
12. 3rd Stone From The Sun - Psychograss

 

[Dennie]

All songs written by Joan Osborne, Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff unless otherwise indicated.

"St. Teresa" – 5:20
"Man in the Long Black Coat" (Bob Dylan) – 4:49
"Right Hand Man" (Osborne, Bazilian, Hyman, Chertoff, Don Van Vliet) – 4:57
"Pensacola" – 4:32
"Dracula Moon" – 6:32
"One of Us" (Bazilian) – 5:21
"Ladder" – 4:11
"Spider Web" (Osborne, Chertoff, Gary Lucas, Sammy Merendino, Chris Palmaro) – 5:34
"Let's Just Get Naked" (Osborne, Bazilian) – 5:08
"Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ralph Bass) – 5:14
"Crazy Baby" (Osborne) – 6:31
"Lumina" (Osborne, Bazilian) – 3:08

Great Choice Keith, a number of us (well, at least 2) have that album and I really enjoy it!


...... :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

Rocket Science -- CD

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

2011 e-one Records

Editorial Reviews

Bela Fleck is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys® in jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, christian, composition and world music categories. His totalcount is 11 Grammys® won, and 27 total nominations. Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck has reconvened the original Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, the extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo. Rocket Science marks the first recording by the first fab four Flecktones in almost two decades, with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/ drumitarist Roy Futureman Wooten.

Far from being a wistful trip back in time, the album sees the Grammy® Award-winning quartet creating some of the most forward thinking music of their long, storied career. While all manner of genres come into play from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances the result is an impossible to pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable.

Simply put, it is The Flecktones, the music made only when these four individuals come together. I didn t want to just get together to play the old music, Fleck says. That s not what the Flecktones are about. Everybody s full of life and ideas and creativity. I was intrigued by what we could do that we had never done before.

Visionary and vibrant as anything in their already rich canon, Rocket Science feels more like a new beginning than simply the culmination of an early chapter. The band now embarks on an extensive tour, and there's no telling how this new music will furtherdevelop in performance. We re going to have to have this experience together and see how everybody likes it, Fleck says. I know that we haven t even come close to exhausting the possibilities with this record, but we sure went deeper than we ever had before.

"Gravity Lane" (Béla Fleck) - 5:58
"Prickly Pear" (Fleck) - 3:49
"Joyful Spring" (Howard Levy) - 2:39
"Life In Eleven" (Levy, Fleck) - 5:25
"Falling Forward" (Fleck) - 5:08
"Storm Warning" (Fleck) - 7:57
"Like Water" (Victor Lemonte Wooten, Fleck) - 4:42
"Earthling Parade" (Fleck) - 7:58
"The Secret Drawer" (Future Man) - 2:12
"Sweet Pomegranates" (Levy) - 5:55
"Falani" (Fleck) - 6:50
"Bottle Rocket" (Fleck) - 5:53


Béla Fleck – 5-string banjo, electric banjo
Future Man – drums, percussion
Howard Levy – bass Harmonica, harmonica, piano
Victor Wooten – bass, fretless bass

 

[Dennie]

Blue Country Heart -- CD

Jorma Kaukoen

2002 Columbia Records

Jorma Kaukonen - From Jefferson Airplane to Nashville!, June 12, 2002
By George Walsh (Long Island, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)

This review is from: Blue Country Heart (Audio CD)
Blue Country Heart
Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen's new CD, "Blue Country Heart", (Columbia Records) is warm, passionate and extremely enjoyable. Jorma's numerous fans (as well as newcomers) will find this CD essential listening. Jorma's gentle vocals and acoustic finger-picking guitar are right up front in the mix and the guest musicians who contribute dobro, mandolin, fiddle & banjo add a superb dimension. The old-timey songs swing, and are guaranteed to keep you grooving. Jorma, a legendary guitarist and member of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, was a founding member of Jefferson Airplane. The Airplane ascended to the Top of the Charts in 1967 (with Grace Slick's vocals) on the hit singles Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. Jefferson Airplane performed celebrated concerts at the Fillmore East (NY) and Fillmore West (SF), played on the Ed Sullivan show and were on the cover of Life Magazine in 1968. Jefferson Airplane, before mutating into Jefferson Starship, played all the major concert events of the 1960's, including: Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock (1969) and Altamont. Jorma left the Airplane in 1972 to pursue a more roots/blues-based form of music with "Hot Tuna" and also began a career as a solo performer. On "Blue Country Heart", Jorma Kaukonen shines on 13 "old timey" songs, including "Just Because", which was made famous by Elvis Presley in 1955 on the Sun Records Sessions. The opening song, "Blue Railroad Train", was originally recorded by The Delmore Brothers, who are one of the architects of early blues and rock. "Blue Country Heart" was recorded in Nashville in the Spring of 2002. All the songs were recorded live (no overdubs) and many selections feature mandolinist Sam Bush, dobro player Jerry Douglas, and banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck Jorma is a master at fusing country and bluegrass with his own traditional acoustic guitar style, which makes for a delightful "down-home" listening experience. George Walsh

"Blue Railroad Train" (Lionel Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 3:44
"Just Because" (Hubert A. Nelson, James D. Touchstone) – 4:16
"Blues Stay Away from Me" (L. Delmore, R. Delmore, Henry Glover, Wayne Raney) – 3:28
"Red River Blues" (Jimmie Davis) – 3:25
"Bread Line Blues" (Bernard Slim Smith) – 4:38
"Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:26
"Those Gambler's Blues" (Rodgers) – 3:07
"Tom Cat Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:05
"Big River Blues" (L. Delmore) – 3:01
"Prohibition Blues" (Clayton McMichen) – 4:13
"I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now" (Lou Herscher, Saul Klein) – 3:28
"You and My Old Guitar" (Rodgers, Elsie McWilliams) – 2:45
"What are They Doing in Heaven Today?" (Traditional) – 3:20


Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vocals
Sam Bush – mandolin, fiddle, background vocals
Jerry Douglas – dobro, weissenborn
Byron House – bass, background vocals
Béla Fleck – banjo on "Just Because" and "Bread Line Blues"

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening....

Watershed -- 2 CD Deluxe Edition

K.D. Lang

2008 Nonesuch Records

Watershed is the first major project from celebrated Canadian chanteuse k.d. lang since 2004's Hymns of the 49th Parallel. Where Hymns explored the music of fellow Canadians such as Ron Sexsmith, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, Watershed represents the first set of original songs from lang in around eight years. Self-produced and arranged by musicians she has worked with a lot in the past, the most striking aspect of the album is its intimate, homely feel. Adding to the cozy ambience is the fact that Watershed brings most of lang's musical passions and influences--jazz, country, folk, bossa nova--under one roof, lending the project a dreamy, mellifluous coherence. But if the musical landscape is mellow and easy to traverse, Lang's lyrics can be less comfortable. Using her laid-back, often ethereal arrangements as sugar-candied coating for thornier topics, the singer serenades with stories of broken love, occasionally harsh self-analysis and the obligatory forays into existential angst. These contrastive elements only serve to make the album stronger, adding emotional weight to the airless arrangements of "Once in a While," and the delicate "Close Your Eyes," and conjuring up images of beauty on the string-laden "I Dream of Spring," and the wonderfully lazy "Sunday". Intelligent, mature and sophisticated, Watershed is the kind of perfect pop album it's difficult not to fall in love with immediately and forever. --Paul Sullivan

Product Description

Deluxe packaging - UniBox with cloth wrap and embossed foil stamp, box contains 3 photo insert cards, 2 babyjacket CD sleeves, and 16-page 4/C booklet. Second cd includes 4 bonus tracks and interview.

No. Title Length
1. "I Dream of Spring" 4:00
2. "Je fais la planche" (lang, Ben Mink) 2:51
3. "Coming Home" 3:26
4. "Once in a While" (lang) 3:27
5. "Thread" 3:38
6. "Close Your Eyes" (Teddy Borowieski, lang, Greg Leisz, Piltch) 4:26
7. "Sunday" (Borowieski, lang) 4:17
8. "Flame of the Uninspired" (lang, Mink) 3:30
9. "Upstream" 3:37
10. "Shadow and the Frame" (Borowiecki, lang, Meredith) 3:07
11. "Jealous Dog" 2:32
Bonus live tracks
No. Title Length
1. "I Dream of Spring" 3:45
2. "Wash Me Clean" (lang) 4:11
3. "The Valley" (Jane Siberry) 6:20
4. "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen) 5:22

 

[heeman]

All songs written by Joan Osborne, Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff unless otherwise indicated.

"St. Teresa" – 5:20
"Man in the Long Black Coat" (Bob Dylan) – 4:49
"Right Hand Man" (Osborne, Bazilian, Hyman, Chertoff, Don Van Vliet) – 4:57
"Pensacola" – 4:32
"Dracula Moon" – 6:32
"One of Us" (Bazilian) – 5:21
"Ladder" – 4:11
"Spider Web" (Osborne, Chertoff, Gary Lucas, Sammy Merendino, Chris Palmaro) – 5:34
"Let's Just Get Naked" (Osborne, Bazilian) – 5:08
"Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ralph Bass) – 5:14
"Crazy Baby" (Osborne) – 6:31
"Lumina" (Osborne, Bazilian) – 3:08

Great Choice Keith, a number of us (well, at least 2) have that album and I really enjoy it!


...... :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

Hey Dennie,

When I bought this one back in the mid-90's, I liked it, but did not really appreciate Joan's talents as much as I do now. Obviously I am in a much different place with musical tastes than I was back then, however I hope for suggestions for some of her other albums.

Keith

 

[PaulyT]

If you love fusion, rock interpretations of classical music, and prog rock, you HAVE to get this CD:

I got it mainly out of my bizarre fetish for the Chapman Stick and because I find just about everything Tony Levin does to be at least technically amazing. Well, this music is not only technically amazing, but it is musically fulfilling and emotionally satisfying.

Get it! GET IT!

G E T I T ! ! !

Ok got it, this one's pretty interesting. Yeah definitely some shades of King Crimson in here. Gonna take a few listenings to "get it" I think, but so far it's quite cool.

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Love -- CD/DVD-A

The Beatles

2006 Capitol Records

From Amazon.co.uk

It begins with a twittering of birdsong lifted from "Across the Universe." And once the triple-tracked a capella harmonies of "Because" enter, followed by snatches from "A Hard Day's Night" and "The End," leading into a fired-up "Get Back," it becomes obvious that this is far more than just another Beatles compilation. This is Love, conceived by the Fabs' former producer George Martin and son Giles as a stageshow soundtrack to Cirque de Soleil's Las Vegas spectacular of the same name, but appears to have taken on a life of its own. Whereas the Beatles' last release, 1, delivered the (over?) familiar hits in a nice, simple package, Love is a mélange of the familiar and obscure, all literally mixed together in one 78-minute audio collage which succeeds in reminding the listener just why the Beatles truly are, as Lennon put it, "toppermost of the poppermost." There's no new Beatles material per se, but the songs are all approached differently--some are cut together in a flawlessly mixed medley (check out "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You/Helter Skelter"), some reassemble different backing tracks and vocal performances to create new spins on old classics; but all the songs are revitalized considerably. Even in its weakest moments (which probably work better in the context of the show itself), Love is still a formidable prospect, and one has to admire Martin's willingness to go out on a limb with such a project. While purists may complain that the cut 'n' paste nature of the project is simply tampering with perfection, at the very least it'll make them reach for the originals and enjoy them all over again. For newcomers and everyone else, it makes a fine listen, both in its sonic clarity (the actual tracks are the best they've sounded on CD) and audacious nature. --Thom Allott

1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love

 

[Botch]

 

[No-L]

 

[heeman]

Botch, tell me more about this one..........PLEASED!!

 

[No-L]