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[Dennie]

Today's work truck music.....

Nick Of Time -- CD

Bonnie Raitt

1989 Capitol Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Nick of Time is the watershed moment in Bonnie Raitt's recording career, the sound of a survivor finding new focus and purpose in her art after nearly 20 years of generally superb, commercially underachieving recordings. An exquisite interpretive singer and formidable guitarist who'd long ago honed her bluesy chops, Raitt raised the stakes by mixing the usual gourmet spread of smart cover choices with her own candid songs--and she knocked one over the fence with the opening track, the album's title song and a moving confession of a boomer's anxieties about age, death, and the impermanence of love. "Nick of Time" catapulted a feisty rock tomboy into a new station that made her as admired by female fans as the stage door johnnies who'd long loved her rock technique, and she covered the bet with other outside songs from John Hiatt ("Thing Called Love"), Bonnie Hayes ("Love Letter," "Have a Heart"), and Jerry L. Williams ("Real Man") that resonated with her persona as a tough, smart, but ultimately tender woman. --Sam Sutherland

"Nick of Time" (Raitt) – 3:52
"Thing Called Love" (John Hiatt) – 3:52
"Love Letter" (Bonnie Hayes) – 4:04
"Cry on My Shoulder" (Michael Ruff) – 3:44
"Real Man" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:27
"Nobody's Girl" (Larry John McNally) – 3:14
"Have a Heart" (Bonnie Hayes) – 4:50
"Too Soon to Tell" (Rory Michael Bourke, Mike Reid) – 3:45
"I Will Not Be Denied" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:55
"I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again" (David Lasley, Julie Lasley) – 2:38
"The Road's My Middle Name" (Raitt) – 3:31

 

[topper]

 

[No-L]

Today's work truck music.....

Nick Of Time -- CD

Bonnie Raitt

1989 Capitol Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Nick of Time is the watershed moment in Bonnie Raitt's recording career, the sound of a survivor finding new focus and purpose in her art after nearly 20 years of generally superb, commercially underachieving recordings. An exquisite interpretive singer and formidable guitarist who'd long ago honed her bluesy chops, Raitt raised the stakes by mixing the usual gourmet spread of smart cover choices with her own candid songs--and she knocked one over the fence with the opening track, the album's title song and a moving confession of a boomer's anxieties about age, death, and the impermanence of love. "Nick of Time" catapulted a feisty rock tomboy into a new station that made her as admired by female fans as the stage door johnnies who'd long loved her rock technique, and she covered the bet with other outside songs from John Hiatt ("Thing Called Love"), Bonnie Hayes ("Love Letter," "Have a Heart"), and Jerry L. Williams ("Real Man") that resonated with her persona as a tough, smart, but ultimately tender woman. --Sam Sutherland

"Nick of Time" (Raitt) – 3:52
"Thing Called Love" (John Hiatt) – 3:52
"Love Letter" (Bonnie Hayes) – 4:04
"Cry on My Shoulder" (Michael Ruff) – 3:44
"Real Man" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:27
"Nobody's Girl" (Larry John McNally) – 3:14
"Have a Heart" (Bonnie Hayes) – 4:50
"Too Soon to Tell" (Rory Michael Bourke, Mike Reid) – 3:45
"I Will Not Be Denied" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:55
"I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again" (David Lasley, Julie Lasley) – 2:38
"The Road's My Middle Name" (Raitt) – 3:31

ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!!!

 

[Rope]

Rope

 

[heeman]

The wife had a surprise for me when I got home from work today.......

 

[Rope]

^^
How do you like the surprise?

Rope

 

[PaulyT]

Cool picture! Yeah, let us know how it is...

I just got that live Tower of Power album Dennie posted about a bit ago... couldn't resist based on that description. Will listen to it asap...

 

[heeman]

^^
How do you like the surprise?

Rope

I just got done listening to it the first time...............it is good, I am a Joe fan, so I like all of his stuff.

I will continue to listen going back and forth from work and then more on the system this weekend!!

 

[Dennie]

Boston -- CD

Boston

1976/1990 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

 

[Dennie]

I always forget I have this one.....



From the back cover:

It took nearly six years to conceive and complete this album. No orchestral instruments or synthesizers were used to create the sounds.

Each individual piece of music relates a human experience. And together they tell the story of a journey into life's Third Stage.

Third Stage -- CD

Boston

1986 MCA Records (Import: Japan) ... :handgestures-thumbup:

Boston's Ready, April 23, 2001
By Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE)


This review is from: Third Stage (Audio CD)
After releasing Don't Look Back in 1978, Boston took eight years to release its follow-up, Third Stage. I don't know how it took eight years to make this record as it sounds like their first two, but that's a good thing. The album is full of major power chords, big hooks and roof raising vocals. The album kicks off with the power ballad "Amanda". The song is a perfect a power ballad that was ever released and Brad Delp gives a tremendous vocal performance. The band was rewarded with their one and only number one song. "We're Ready" was another top ten hit and is a driving rocker. "The Launch" is another chance for Tom Scholz to show off his MIT degree as it is amalgamation of guitars that produces a symphonic sound. "Cool The Engines" is a great song and "Cant'cha Say You Believe In Me/I Still Love You" is an epic song. Third Stage showed that Boston still could be a force on the charts even after an eight year disappearance as the album hit number one in late 1986.

1. "Amanda" Tom Scholz 4:16
2. "We're Ready" Scholz 3:58
3. "The Launch" Scholz 2:55
4. "Cool the Engines" Scholz, Brad Delp, Fran Sheehan 4:23
5. "My Destination" Scholz 2:19
6. "A New World" Jim Masdea 0:36
7. "To Be a Man" Scholz 3:30
8. "I Think I Like It" Scholz, Jerry English 4:06
9. "Can'tcha Say (You Believe in Me)/Still in Love" Gary Green, Scholz, Delp 5:13
10. "Hollyann" Scholz 5:11

 

[Dennie]

Southern Girl -- CD

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly

1996 Cema Special Products

At a mere seven tracks, 1992's SOUTHERN GIRL might not seem like a sensible purchase for a best-of compilation, but fans of Frankie Beverly and Maze won't be disappointed. The tight groove of the title track, and the lengthy workout "Back in Stride" are worth the album's budget price by themselves, but the smooth "Travelin' Man" and the sweet ballad "Never Let You Down" are icing on the cake. Fans of late 1970s/early `80s smooth R&B (that doesn't skimp on funk and jazz influences) will find much to appreciate here.

Track listing

1. Southern Girl
2. Back in Stride
3. Never Let You Down
4. Joy and Pain
5. I Wanna Be with You
6. Travelin' Man
7. Too Many Games - (CD only)

 

[Dennie]

Thank goodness, Friday is here! :eusa-clap:

Today's work truck music...

bring it on home... the soul classics -- CD

Aaron Neville

2006 Burgundy Records

Amazon.com

Approach Aaron Neville's Bring it on Home ... the Soul Classics with anything but an open heart and you've missed the point. This is a serious CD, at once mournful, humble, and joyous, with no shortage of moments that recall the terribleness of Hurricane Katrina. One way of processing it is as a cataloging of classic songs that helped Neville's fellow New Orleanians soldier through: opener "Rainy Night in Georgia" with jazzman Chris Botti wrings beauty from soaking-wet despair, "Stand By Me" turns its heel on pleading in favor of promise-making, and "People Get Ready," with David Sanborn and brother Art, is a chill-sending reminder of how unity and perseverance can trump tragedy. Viewed from another lens, Soul Classics is Neville's attempt at climbing aboard the late-career, classic-covers bandwagon while weaving his bayou-soul heritage into the picture. The trouble with that theory, though, is that it feels like so much more. His voice flutters alongside Mavis Staple's on "Respect Yourself" with completely uncontrived tenderness, and Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" becomes a meditation on stillness and ease that befits a boulder-sized lump in the throat. A tossed-together concept album this is not; a reflection of a soul man gifted with the ability to spin epic, unyielding sorrow into grace is more like it. --Tammy La Gorce

Track listing

1. Rainy Night in Georgia
2. Ain't No Sunshine
3. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
4. Stand by Me
5. You Send Me
6. Respect Yourself
7. When a Man Loves a Woman
8. Let's Stay Together
9. It's All Right
10. People Get Ready
11. My Girl
12. Ain't That Peculiar
13. Change Is Gonna Come, A

 

[heeman]

The wife had a surprise for me when I got home from work today.......

I have listened to this a few times now and I really like it........it is typical Joe telling stories with his lyrics. All his different styles all in one. Good to see that he is still alive and well!

:bow-blue: :music-rockout: :bow-blue:

 

[PaulyT]

I'm not familiar with these guys - Europe - but this new album, Bag of Bones, was produced by Kevin Shirley, who also does Joe Bonamassa (and who is a guest guitarist on one track). So far I'm enjoying this, has a little of the feel of Black Country Communion to it, sort of modern-but-classic hard rock. Musically it's quite interesting, and there's some seriously good playing on here.

:music-rockout:

 

[Rope]

Awesome 176kHz/24bit recording with a Neumann KU-100 binaural microphone.

Tracks 1,3,5,7 & 9 are the ones to get for incredible 3D headphone listening.

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file ... 0368035264

Excellent listen for headphone freaks! First time it left me with chin on chest and a bit of drooling babble.

Rope

 

[Dennie]

This seems like it was written for today...

"Dollar Bill, Dollar Bill, Dollar Bill, It's all about the Dollar Bill!"

*Funk Beyond The Call of Duty* -- CD

Johnny Guitar Watson

1977/1994 Collectables Records

Funking above and beyond the call of duty, October 5, 2000
By aL (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funk Beyond the Call of Duty (Audio CD)

Hot on the heels of the success of his previous two albums (they both went gold), Johnny 'Guitar' Watson dropped another 70's funk classic. I'd heard this wasn't as good as the previous two but I'd say its my favourite Johnny 'Guitar' Watson cd so far, there are more grooves on this one and less ballads. Watson wrote , preformed, and produced, this and played all the instruments except for drums and horns. For fans of 70's funk music that want an introduction to one of the genre's lesser known master's, 'Funk Beyond the Call of Duty' is the perfect introduction. After all, this is: FUNK BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY.

Track Listing
1. Funk Beyond the Call of Duty
2. It's About the Dollar Bill
3. Give Me My Love
4. It's a *** Shame
5. I'm Gonna Get You Baby
6. Barn Door
7. Love That Will Not Die

 

[Dennie]

Awesome 176kHz/24bit recording with a Neumann KU-100 binaural microphone.

Tracks 1,3,5,7 & 9 are the ones to get for incredible 3D headphone listening.

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file ... 0368035264

Excellent listen for headphone freaks! First time it left me with chin on chest and a bit of drooling babble.

Rope

Reminds me of a Girlfriend I once had........ :bow-blue:


......... :laughing-rolling:



Dennie

 

[Dennie]

Sum Serious Blues -- CD

Jimmy Smith

1993 Milestone Records

Amazon.com

Jimmy Smith may be the best known organist in jazz, but his recording, Sum Serious Blues, is essentially an upscale blues album in the style of B.B. King or Ray Charles. Instead of his usual trio, Smith is backed by a three-man rhythm section and a seven-man horn-and-harmonica section under the direction of producer-arranger Johnny Pate, who has worked in the past with King and Curtis Mayfield. It's a big, full sound, and works well on the five instrumentals (three by Smith and two by Pate). Smith's expressive vibrato on the Hammond B-3 organ often sounds like a blues singer's wail against the horns' harmonic backdrop. Smith doesn't hog the show either. He fits comfortably inside the horn charts when his well known bandmates like guitarist Phil Upchurch, trombonist George Bohanon, trumpeter Oscar Brashear, or saxophonist Buddy Collette take a solo. --Geoffrey Himes

Track Listing
1. Sum Serious Blues
2. 'Round the Corner
3. Hurry Change (If You're Coming)
4. Sermon, The
5. You've Changed
6. Moof's Blues
7. Open for Business
8. (I'd Rather) Drink Muddy Water

 

[Botch]

I'm Lester, the Nightfly, Hello Baton Rouge...

 

[Dennie]

Classic...... :handgestures-thumbup:

Fleetwood Mac -- CD

Fleetwood Mac

1975/1990 Reprise Records

Amazon.com

Given their monumental legacy, it's hard to imagine that the so-called "classic edition" of Fleetwood Mac essentially came together casually over chips and margaritas at an L.A. eatery; the then-obscure duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (whose own mid-'70s debut album had initially gone almost straight to the cut-out bins) became the crucial axis of the legendary band without so much as a formal audition. As the eponymous title suggests, the 1975 Mac realignment seems like a fresh start, though tracks like Christine McVie's smooth-jazz inflected "Warm Ways" hearken back to the Bob Welch/Bare Trees/Heroes Are Hard to Find era. But it's Buckingham's compelling, updated take on '60s California folk-pop, informed by the mystique of Nicks's proto-New Age song-sorceress presumptions, that breathed new life into the veteran, chameleonic band on now-familiar songs like "Monday Morning" and "Rhiannon." His chemistry with McVie is no less powerful, yielding such Mac staples as their collaboration "World Turning" and suffusing her "Over My Head" with nervous, insistent guitar rhythms.

"Monday Morning" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 2:48
"Warm Ways" (Christine McVie) – 3:54
"Blue Letter" (Rick Curtis, Mike Curtis) – 2:41
"Rhiannon" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:11
"Over My Head" (C. McVie) – 3:38
"Crystal" (Nicks) – 5:14
"Say You Love Me" (C. McVie) – 4:11
"Landslide" (Nicks) – 3:19
"World Turning" (Buckingham, C. McVie) – 4:25
"Sugar Daddy" (C. McVie) – 4:10
"I'm So Afraid" (Buckingham) – 4:22