What Are You Listening To?

[heeman]

I always liked John and his music, and once again I am pleased with this one, less commercial and poppy, but solid.

All songs written and composed by John Mayer.
No. Title Length
1. "Queen of California" 4:10
2. "The Age of Worry" 2:38
3. "Shadow Days" 3:53
4. "Speak for Me" 3:45
5. "Something Like Olivia" 3:01
6. "Born and Raised" 4:48
7. "If I Ever Get Around to Living" 5:22
8. "Love Is a Verb" 2:24
9. "Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967" 5:08
10. "Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey" 4:39
11. "A Face to Call Home" 4:45
12. "Born and Raised (Reprise)" 2:01

I will be listening to this one back and forth to work this week......the more I listen, the more I like it!!

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music.....

3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In The Life Of... -- CD

Arrested Development

1992 Capitol Records

Hip-hop found itself at a crossroads in the early '90s. Its pop dominance was now unquestioned, but in order to progress, the genre needed a stylistic and cultural alternative to the shoot-em-up nihilism and vacuous balladry which threatened to stunt its growth. Enter Arrested Development. With 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF..., the group gave hip-hop the intellectual and spiritual shot in the arm which it needed, and in the process, brought the genre to a whole new audience. Turning rap's anger into pride, Arrested Development stressed the beauty and richness of the African and, more specifically, the African-American tradition. Never blindly optimistic, but ever hopeful, 3 YEARS preached self-empowerment and awareness, holding an unflattering mirror up to certain destructive aspects of society.

1. Man's Final Frontier
2. Mama's Always on Stage
3. People Everyday
4. Blues Happy
5. Mr. Wendal
6. Children Play with Earth
7. Raining Revolution
8. Fishin' 4 Religion
9. Give a Man a Fish
10. U Listen
11. Eve of Reality
12. Natural
13. Dawn of the Dreads
14. Tennessee
15. Washed Away
16. People Everyday [Metamorphosis Mix]

 

[topper]

Cool !
I've been hopin' for a new release from Rory.
Going to order her new disc "I'm A Member of the Band: A Tribute to Rev. Gary Clark" ... her latest in her 'Tribute Series' of albums.

(today!) , , :happy-smileygiantred:

 

[PaulyT]

Nice, I'll be getting that one, too.

 

[Dennie]

Miles Smiles - Remastered 20 Bit CD

Miles Davis Quintet

1967/1998 Columbia Legacy

Amazon.com

The most satisfying sort of audacity was the rule with Miles Davis's second great quintet. One of six studio albums cut by the group between 1965 and 1968, Miles Smiles finds them executing three Wayne Shorter compositions and one by the leader, along with Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance," former Davis cohort Jimmy Cobb's "Gingerbread Boy," and the usual mix of finesse and barreling momentum. Even when nodding toward the then-burgeoning hard-bop movement on the Harris piece, the group makes its own mark in a hundred different ways, from Herbie Hancock's spare touch to the thoroughly declarative solo Davis lays down. It's hard to pick the most exceptional cut on such a top-flight disc, but certainly Shorter's deceptively simple "Orbits" and "Footprints" deserve mention; on the former, the players take turns stating the melody and then rumbling over it. The latter's echoes of "Caravan" make way for an improv performance that not only hangs tough in itself, but seems to have provided a template for the entire early career of Wynton Marsalis. --Rickey Wright
Side one

"Orbits" (Wayne Shorter) - 4:37
"Circle" (Miles Davis) - 5:52
"Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) - 9:46

Side two

"Dolores" (Wayne Shorter) - 6:20
"Freedom Jazz Dance" (Eddie Harris) - 7:13
"Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) - 7:43

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Miles Davis – Trumpet
Wayne Shorter – Tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – Piano
Ron Carter – Double bass
Tony Williams – Drums

 

[Dennie]

In Deep -- CD

Marion Meadows

2002 Heads Up Records

Marion Meadows' third Heads Up International release, In Deep, finds the sax player/songwriter/producer successfully infusing his distinctive sound with elements of hip-hop, neo-soul, and R&B. Along for the ride are Bob Baldwin, Will Downing (on the mid-tempo "Don't Wanna Know"), guitarist Ray Obiedo, Spyro Gyra guitarist Julio Fernandez, and emerging keyboardist/producer Michael Broening. The supple "Show Me, Show Me" is both sensuous and funky. Trumpeter Roy Hargrove doubles with Meadows on the slick, uptown "Soul Food." Other standouts are the smooth "Yeah Baby," the mellow "Treasures," "Is That You," "Slow Motion," and the dynamic title track. ~ Ed Hogan

Track Listing
1. Tales of a Gypsy
2. Thank You
3. Soul Food
4. Yeah Baby
5. Show Me, Show Me
5. Show Me Show Me
6. Don't Wanna Know
7. South Chicago
8. Treasures
8. Treasurers
9. Flava
10. In Deep
11. Is That You
12. Slow Motion
13. Tales of a Gypsy (Reprise)
13. Tales of a Gypsy Reprise

 

[Dennie]

Keep This Love Alive -- CD

Tom Scott

1991 GRP Records (Import - Austria)

Incredible Music August 15, 2005
By M. Pentico
Format:Audio CD

I absolutley love this CD, as a matter of fact I am listening to it right now. The first 5 tracks are killer, with three vocal tracks including two with Bill Champlin (awesome voice). They more than make up for the remainder of the CD which does drag a little, but the sounds are still good carried by Only a Heartbeat away. The jazz is good and Tom Scott is a great sax player. I bought this on tape right when it came out and was really glad when I could get it on CD. This is not to be missed whether you are a jazz sax fan or a Bill Champlin fan. Great collection to any CD collection.

Track Listing
1. If You're Not the One for Me
2. Miz Thang
3. Keep This Love Alive
4. Kilimanjaro
5. Reason for the Rain
6. Givin' Our Best
7. Only a Heartbeat Away
8. You Mean Everything (To Me)
9. Whenever You Dream of Me

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening.....

Live By Request -- CD

K.D. Lang

2001 Warner Bros. Records

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k.d. lang has spent her eccentric career pitching between twin poles of desire--torch (jazz/blues) and twang (retro country), and artistry and flamboyance. On Live by Request, she revisits the best of her shimmering repertoire, from her rough-edged cowpunk days to her current gossamer soundscape. But at the start of the set, recorded December 2000 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, she threatens to diminish her own impact with a lumpy, rushed rendition of "Summerfling" and a cartoonish version of "Big Boned Gal." Soon, however, she settles down to do what she does best, which is seduction. While a way-too-melodramatic arrangement spoils "Don't Smoke in Bed," she goes on to bring goose-bump intimacy to "The Consequences of Falling" and "Constant Craving," one of popular music's most aching songs of longing laid bare. By the time she turns her exquisite soprano to the howling chorus of "Barefoot," the earth doesn't just move, Ernest, it trembles--a prelude to the staggeringly emotional affect of "Pullin' Back the Reins." When she gets to that one, don't be surprised if your stereo starts to smoke. --Alanna Nash

"Summerfling" (lang, Piltch) – 4:03
"Big Boned Gal" (lang, Mink) – 2:55
"Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:44
"Trail of Broken Hearts" (lang, Mink) – 3:19
"Crying" (Joe Melson, Roy Orbison) – 4:32
"Don't Smoke in Bed" (Willard Robison) – 3:44
"The Consequences of Falling" (DUbaldo, Nowels, Steinberg) – 3:55
"Miss Chatelaine" (lang, Mink) – 3:25
"Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" (Eddie Miller, WS Stevenson) – 2:52
"Barefoot" (lang, Telson) – 4:20
"Constant Craving" (lang, Mink) – 4:32
"Wash Me Clean" (lang) – 3:50
"Pullin' Back the Reins" (lang, Mink) – 4:41
"Simple" (lang, Piltch) – 3:29

 

[Dennie]

Farmers In A Changing World -- CD

The Tractors

1998 Arista Records

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In 1994 a group of grizzled country and R&B veterans, led by Steve Ripley (a J.J. Cale and Leon Russell sideman), released a meticulous, bouncy record of neotraditional country and swampy rock that became the fastest-selling platinum album in history. They called themselves the Tractors, and despite a Christmas disc and a few cuts on tribute albums, the band hasn't been heard from since. Their full-length follow-up to The Tractors may be one of the year's best-sounding rock & roll or country albums: the mix all but hurls itself from the speakers and the playing sounds like craftsmen with their professional guard down. There are playful false starts and endings, greasy guitar licks--even some slide from Bonnie Raitt--ebullient piano, and warm, moaning horns. The band slaps its musical wizardry across boogie-based tunes--dance and old rock & roll are the lyrical themes--and the whole feels like a rockin' roadhouse blues album, a renegade homage to country rockers Jerry Lee Lewis and Delbert McClinton, and a joyful, spontaneous slice of American music. --Roy Kasten

Track Listing
1. I Wouldn't Tell You No Lie
2. Linda Lou
3. How Long Will It Take
4. Shortenin' Bread
5. World's Biggest Fool, The
6. Poor Boy Shuffle
7. With a Girl Like You
8. Elvis Thing, The
9. Way Too Late
10. Foot Stomp Stompin'

 

[Dennie]

Rock and Roll Doctor - A Tribute to Lowell George -- CD

Various Artists

1997 Kaigan Records

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

As the guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter for Little Feat, Lowell George was one of the biggest cult heroes of the '70s, creating a body of work that was deeply set within the blues tradition yet fiercely idiosyncratic and weird. It was the kind of music that earns a large cult following, but doesn't guarantee good covers, since its very quirkiness is among its most appealing traits. Basically, it's a question of matching the right artist with the right song, something that happens about half of the time on Rock N Roll Doctor (A Tribute to Lowell George). By the time the tribute record was released in 1998, his "Willin'" had long been established as a classic, the kind of song that could be covered by anyone -- along with "Dixie Chicken," it's one of the rare universal songs in George's catalog -- but Rock N Roll Doctor doesn't include either of those songs, or "Fat Man in the Bathtub." Instead, its 13 tracks are all relatively obscure, known to hardcore fans but not casual listeners, and this album is a record made by hardcore fans for hardcore fans. That doesn't mean it's necessarily all successful. Eddie Money wasn't really meant to sing the title track, and a couple of cuts, ironically including Little Feat's reworking of "Honest Man," are a bit too reverant to his memory (the group erases that negative with a storming "Cold, Cold, Cold," performed as a duet with Bonnie Raitt). But the best songs -- the Bottle Rockets and David Lindley's "Rocket in My Pocket," Jackson Browne's "I've Been the One," Taj Mahal's "Feats Don't Fail Me Now," J.D. Souther's "Roll Um Easy," Allen Toussaint & Leo Nocentelli's "Tow Trains" and especially Randy Newman & Valerie Carter's "Sailing Shoes" -- demonstrate that George's songs can live on, provided that the artists perform them with as much imagination as he wrote them with.


1 Cold Cold Cold Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat 5:03
2 Feets Don't Fail Me Now Taj Mahal 3:18
3 Roll Um Easy J.D. Souther 3:04
4 Rocket in My Pocket Bottle Rockets ... 4:03
Performed by: Bottle Rockets, David Lindley
5 Sailin' Shoes Valerie Carter ... 3:49
Performed by: Valerie Carter, Randy Newman
6 I've Been the One Jackson Browne 2:20
7 Two Trains Allen Toussaint ... 3:38
Performed by: Allen Toussaint, Leo Nocentelli
8 Long Distance Love Merry Clayton ... 3:25
Performed by: Merry Clayton, Keisuke Kuwata
9 Rock & Roll Doctor Eddie Money, Buddaheads 3:28
10 Straight from the Heart Jennifer Warnes ... 3:19
Performed by: Jennifer Warnes, Chris Hillman
11 Honest Man Little Feat 4:52
12 Spanish Moon Merry Clayton ... 4:38
Performed by: Merry Clayton, Ricky Lawson, Phil Perry
13 Trouble Inara George 4:10
14 Lowell's Voice :04

 

[Dennie]

On Down The Line -- CD

Patty Loveless

1990 MCA Records

The true voice of America August 8, 1998
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD

Patty Loveless's voice is an extraorinary instrument. With it's flat tone and occaisional twang, she is able to express more emotion with subtile gestures than the bombastic divas who dominate pop and Nashville country music. She projects the strength, warmth and pain of real American women. Although her sound is rooted in her southern rural background, the themes of the songs she chooses are universal, and her appeal should be, too. I've found that playing her records is a great way to open the ears of people who don't think that they like country music.

While I can't pick a favorite from among her albums, I listen to this one as often as any. It has a slightly harder edge to it than her more recent CD's. Her version of Lucinda Williams's "Night's Too Long" is one of those songs that should win her converts from pop fans, without sacrificing her integrity as a country purist. "I've Got to Stop Loving" is a great hardcore country ballad, and! if the big radio hit, "I'm That Kind of Girl" (I'm not the lady in red/ I'm not the girl next door/ But if somewhere in the middle's what you're looking for) doesn't make you smile, then head over to the Wagner section at the local CD shop and pick up the Ring Cycle, 'cause popular music of any genre just ain't for you.

1. Overtime
2. The Night's Too Long
3. Blue Memories
4. Some Morning Soon
5. You Can't Run Away from Your Heart
6. On Down the Line
7. I've Got to Stop Loving You (And Start Living Again)
8. Looking in the Eyes of Love
9. I'm That Kind of Girl
10. Feelings of Love

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music.....

Feels Like Home -- CD

Norah Jones

2004 Blue Note Records

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Norah Jones blew everybody away with her jazzy, country-tinged, Grammy-winning debut CD, Come Away with Me. On this recording, Jones doesn't mess with her trademark formula. Under Arif Mardin's cozy coproduction, Jones is supported by her writing partners, her Handsome Band, and some special guests (country legend Dolly Parton, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of the Band, and jazz drummer Brian Blade, to name a few). Jones's Texas-twanged vocals and her sparse acoustic and electric Wurlitzer piano lines enliven the CD's 13 tracks, from the light and lively single "Sunrise" to Tom Waits's "The Long Way Home" and the bouncy duet with Parton, "Creepin' In." Jones's soul-baring piano/vocal rendition of Duke Ellington's "Melancholia," retitled "Don't Miss You at All," proves she's a true Blue Note artist with unlimited potential. --Eugene Holley Jr.

1. Sunrise
2. What Am I To You?
3. Those Sweet Words
4. Carnival Town
5. In The Morning
6. Be Here To Love Me
7. Creepin' In
8. Toes
9. Humble Me
10. Above Ground
11. The Long Way Home
12. The Prettiest Thing
13. Don't Miss You At All

 

[Dennie]

A long wait, but it is finally here...... :happy-cheerleaderkid: :happy-cheerleaderkid: :happy-cheerleaderkid:

The Absence -- CD

Melody Gardot

May 29th, 2012 Verve Records

Absence makes the heart grow fonder... May 29, 2012
By Nse Ette TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD

Jazz chanteuse Melody Gardot's new CD "The Absence" is produced by Brazilian composer and guitarist Heitor Pereira, adding a Latin lilt to her soft breezy sound.

Opening is the sunny "Mira", with Gardot scatting and singing to rhythmic guitars. In a similar vein is closing number, the celebratory "Iemanja" which is sung in Portuguese (with a hidden instrumental jam after a 10 minute wait)."Amalia" is Folky, "So Long" is a tender acoustic piece, while "So We Meet Again My Heartache" is an achingly beautiful ballad with lush strings and emotive vocals - my favourite. "Lisboa" starts with chiming bells leading to a Jazzy guitar-driven ballad.

Everything stands out really; "Impossible Love" (with enchanting guitar, clarinet and strings, and some spoken vocals with Gardot flitting between French and English as she tries to share her frustration at trying to get an affair to work), the prowling "If I Tell You I Love You" (with some Eartha Kitt-style purring and growling), the horn-sprinkled slow shuffle "Goodbye", and the spare hushed "Se Voce Me Ama" (with tenderly plucked guitar and some harmonising). Regally understated and beautiful!

HIDDEN TRACK ALERT.......

Track Listing
1. Mira
2. Amalia
3. So Long
4. So We Meet Again My Heartache
5. Lisboa
6. Impossible Love
7. If I Tell You I Love You
8. Goodbye
9. Se Voce Me Ama
10. My Heart Won't Have It Any Other Way
11. Iemanja /Chegue Journeyman [Hidden Track]

Bonus Picture....

 

[Dennie]

Good To Go-Go -- SACD

Sypro Gyra

2007 Heads Up Records

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Spyro Gyra leader Jay Beckenstein credits the addition of Trinidadian drummer Bonny B with juicing the long-running contemporary jazz band's sound, making it more "live-sounding." Wherever the stimulus came from, Good to Go-Go is one of the more forceful albums by Beckenstein and company. The drummer's Caribbean-style "Jam Up," featuring Andy Narell on steel drums and Bonny B on vocals, is infectious in a tightly wound way and melodically flavorful. With its modern harmonies, "The Left Band," with Christian Howe's guesting on violin, has an edge most such music lacks. Elsewhere, Spyro Gyra's funk-based sound is boosted by Julio Fernandez's wired guitar and lyrically colored by Tom Schuman's unplugged piano. This is the band's 26th album. Three decades on, it would seem, it is entering a promising new phase. --Lloyd Sachs

"Simple Pleasures" (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:50
"Get Busy" (Tom Schuman) – 5:19
"Jam Up" (Bonaparte) – 4:15
"The Left Bank" (Beckenstein) – 5:40
"Funkyard Dog" (Fernandez) – 5:02
"Along for the Ride" (Julio Fernandez) – 6:45
"Island Time" (Scott Ambush) – 6:23
"Wassup!" (Schuman) – 4:45
"Easy Street" (Beckenstein) – 5:02
"A Winter Tale" (Beckenstein) – 6:34
"Good to Go-Go" (Ambush) – 6:41
"Newroses" (Beckenstein, Fernandez) – 6:46

 

[Dennie]

Tears, Lies and Alibis -- CD

Shelby Lynne

2010 Everso Records

Product Description

With Tears, Lies, and Alibis the follow-up to 2008's Just A Little Lovin' and the first release on her own label, Everso Records, Shelby Lynne affirms her position as a visionary, iconoclastic artist who deftly weaves country, soul, rock, blues, pop and folk influences to forge her own unique style. Like Identity Crisis (2003) and Suit Yourself (2005), this sparse, unguarded collection was produced by Lynne, who evokes a live-in-the-studio vibe from a stellar group of musicians.

Born in Quantico, VA, she grew up in Jackson, AL and headed to Nashville at an early age. At 18, Lynne s demos landed her an appearance on TNN s Nashville Now series, which led to a Top 50 duet ( "If I Could Bottle This Up" ) with George Jones and a record deal. Following the release of the critically acclaimed I Am Shelby Lynne in 2000, she won the GRAMMY® for Best New Artist. She made her acting debut in 2005, playing Johnny Cash's mother in the Fox Searchlight motion picture Walk the Line.

1. "Rains Came" 2:25
2. "Why Didn't You Call Me" 1:39
3. "Like a Fool" 3:58
4. "Alibi" 4:25
5. "Something to Be Said" 3:53
6. "Family Tree" 3:45
7. "Loser Dreamer" 4:52
8. "Old #7" 3:32
9. "Old Dog" 5:27
10. "Home Sweet Home" 3:32

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening....

More Best of -- CD

Leonard Cohen

1997 Columbia Records

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Canadian poet Leonard Cohen sings with great weight and authority and his lyrics are among the most elegant and scripted of the rock era. This collection is culled from his past three albums (1988's I'm Your Man, 1992's The Future, and 1994's Cohen Live) and shows a man whose voice has deepened to the point of grim, foreboding death with lyrics sharpened to masterful precision. The arrangements are deliberately clunky--the cheese- whiz female back-ups lend unusual tension bordering on parody--but the sentiments are for real. Two previously unreleased cuts, "Never Any Good" and the non-event, "The Great Event" suggest his well is currently dry. But the unrelenting bleakness of "The Future" and uneasy celebration of "Democracy" are among the past decade's most challenging pop works. --Rob O'Connor

"Everybody Knows"
"I'm Your Man"
"Take This Waltz"
"Tower of Song"
"Anthem"
"Democracy"
"The Future"
"Closing Time"
"Dance Me to the End of Love" (live)
"Suzanne" (live)
"Hallelujah" (live)
"Never Any Good"
"The Great Event"

 

[Dennie]

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

Live At Blues Alley -- CD

Eva Cassidy

1998 Blix Street Records

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When Eva Cassidy is swinging her way through "Cheek to Cheek" and getting down and bluesy on "Stormy Monday" on this live set from 1996, it's nigh impossible not to get swept up in her voice's vast, barreling force. Her full range, though, becomes most obvious--and soul-shaking--on the slower side, as with Paul Simon's "Bridge over Troubled Water," Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Tall Trees in Georgia," and "What a Wonderful World." On these latter tunes, Cassidy's mix of aching clarity and rich warmth has a melting quality, speaking through the body to some evanescent presence that she seems to know all too well. She improbably makes Sting's "Fields of Gold" an emotional powerhouse just as easily as she makes Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow" an offhand declaration of feeling equal to nearly anything in the jazz vocal canon. In doing so she earns her place among the great singers--artists who could take any song and stamp it indelibly as their own. What Eva Cassidy had in her short life was an unbelievably perfect voice and a musical soul that grasped gospel, folk, blues, jazz, and all points in between as if they were mere stops on a single train ride. Alas, her ride ended in 1996, tragically early. --Andrew Bartlett

"Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 4:03
"Stormy Monday" (T-Bone Walker) – 5:49
"Bridge over Troubled Water" (Paul Simon) – 5:33
"Fine and Mellow" (Billie Holiday) – 4:03
"People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) – 3:36
"Blue Skies" (Berlin) – 2:37
"Tall Trees in Georgia" (Buffy Sainte-Marie) – 4:05
"Fields of Gold" (Sting) – 4:57
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 4:57
"Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller) – 3:14
"Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) – 3:51
"What a Wonderful World" (Bob Thiele, David Weiss) – 5:50
"Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" (Pete Seeger) – 4:46 [Studio recording]

 

[Dennie]

It is nearing 100 degrees today, so it is time for some Cool Blues..... :eusa-clap:

Come On In This House -- SACD

Junior Wells

1996 Telarc Music

All tracks have been digitally remastered.


Junior Wells' penchant for clowning around sometimes conflicts with his craftsmanship, but he's all business on Come on in This House, his most unadulterated blues record since his highly acclaimed Hoodoo Man Blues of more than 30 years vintage. This is what has come to be known as an "unplugged" session -- that is, predominately, although not exclusively, acoustic instrumentation. Producer John Snyder's concept was threefold: to team Wells with some of the era's top younger traditional blues guitarists -- Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sonny Landreth, Bob Margolin, and John Mooney; to have those musicians, in various combinations, accompany Wells on a variety of slide guitars; and to concentrate on vintage Chicago and Delta blues from the repertoires of Rice Miller, Little Walter, Tampa Red, Arthur Crudup, and Wells himself. The result is a virtual slide-guitar mini-fest and a demonstration of the timeless appeal of classic blues done well. Wells' vocals are deep and manly; his harp playing is high-pitched, like a child's pleading. A surprising highlight is the only contemporary tune on the disc, Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." New Orleans drummer Herman Ernest III, who appears on 11 of the 14 cuts, does a masterful job laying down understated rhythmic grooves. ~ Steve Hoffman

Track listing

1. What My Momma Told Me / That's All Right
2. Why Are People Like That?
3. Trust My Baby
4. Million Years Blues
5. Give Me One Reason
6. Ships on the Ocean
7. She Wants to Sell My Monkey
8. So Glad You're Mine
9. Mystery Train
10. I'm Gonna Move to Kansas City
11. King Fish Blues
12. You Better Watch Yourself
13. Come on in This House
14. Goat, The

 

[Dennie]

Heavier Things -- SACD

John Mayer

2003 Aware/Columbia Records

Great album, great recording., September 11, 2008
By L. Milone "skykeys" (Wallingford, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heavier Things (Hybr) (Ms) (Audio CD)

John Mayer's music hooked me the first time I heard "Room for Squares", which is truly a great album. "Heavier Things" is right up there; I love it almost as much. But even more importantly, the SACD recording playback is excellent.

More people need to experience high quality audio. It seems to me that we're getting away from it as a consequence of the convenience of MP3 players. I understand the convenience; but unfortunately many people are missing out on the dynamic listening experience that multi-channel SACD (and DVD-Audio) recordings deliver. I implore all John Mayer music lovers out there to get a universal DVD player that supports both SACD and DVD-Audio formatted discs, splurge a little on a surround sound set up, and enjoy the listening experience.

1. "Clarity" 4:28
2. "Bigger Than My Body" 4:26
3. "Something's Missing" 5:04
4. "New Deep" 4:07
5. "Come Back to Bed" 5:23
6. "Home Life" (Mayer, David LaBruyere) 4:14
7. "Split Screen Sadness" 5:06
8. "Daughters" 3:58
9. "Only Heart" 3:52
10. "Wheel" 5:33

 

[Dennie]

A Musical Romance -- Remastered CD

Billie Holiday & Lester Young

2002 Verve Records

Recorded in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1958.

Romeo and Juliet...Eloise and Abelard...Tracy and Hepburn. These are among history's great romantic relationships, but perhaps the deepest of all romances - in all of American music, at any rate - was the one that was carried on in the recording studio between Billie Holiday (1915-1959) and Lester Young (1910-1959). "Lady Day" and "The President" (they gave one another their nicknames) made a series of "sides," as they were called in those days, that to this day absolutely define love in tune. She was - and is - the greatest of all jazz vocalists. His tenor saxophone style delivered the real Birth of the Cool. Together, they sang and played with an unparalleled sense of intimacy, warmth, and sensuous, behind-the-beat swing, whether the melody was pure gold (like "The Man I Love," "Time On My Hands") or closer to brass ("When You're Smiling," "Back In Your Own Backyard"). Originally produced by the redoubtable John Hammond, and intended first and foremost for jukeboxes, these sixteen seminal performances have been culled from the Grammy-winning 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944. They also feature vital contributions from, among others, pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who served as leader on many of Holiday's record dates, Swing era superstar clarinetist Benny Goodman, ace trumpeter Buck Clayton (Young's cohort from Count Basie's definitive swing band), the sublime Ellingtonian alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, and Roy Eldridge, little giant of the trumpet. But Lady Day and Pres, forever dancing in the dark, make this a musical romance that will never die. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

1. The Man I Love
2. This Year's Kisses
3. Mean to Me
4. Back in Your Own Backyard
5. I'll Never Be the Same
6. Me, Myself and I
7. Time on My Hands
8. Who Wants Love?
9. I Must Have That Man
10. Foolin' Myself
11. When You're Smiling
12. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
13. He's Funny That Way
14. Laughing at Life
15. Without Your Love
16. Fine and Mellow