What Are You Listening To?

[PaulyT]

Where did you buy yours? If you bought it used, do you happen to know where it was originally purchased from?

You know how Walmart only sells edited versions of CDs, right? Perhaps Walmart told Melody's label "We won't carry it unless you change the cover photo". Another possibility is that yours is an import. :twocents-mytwocents:

...or a counterfeit! :think:



Dennie :confusion-shrug:

No idea. I got mine from an amazon reseller, but it was advertised as new, and had shrinkwrap on it. Guess there are just different versions of this out there...

 

[heeman]

 

[No-L]

 

[No-L]

 

[topper]

Hear My Train A Comin’ (acoustic)
Born Under A Bad Sign
Catfish Blues
Red House
Voodoo Chile Blues
Mannish Boy
Bleeding Heart
Once I Had A Woman
Jam 292
Electric Church Red House
Hear My Train A Comin’ (electric)

I'm not sure if this CD is still available.
Amazon has a 2-LP set of the same 11 songs

Jimi was influenced by blues artists, and began his career playing the music.
73 minutes of some outstanding blues music!

:music-rockout:

 

[Dennie]

Darkness On The Edge Of Town -- CD

Bruce Springsteen

1978/1990 Columbia Records

The Boss's Best. March 1, 2005
By N_Joy
Format:Audio CD

This is one of the most powerful albums I have ever heard. I didn't get Bruce in younger days. Back in the 80's I was only interested in heavy metal and it wasn't until my early twentys when I began to expand my musical horizons that I understood the Boss. These songs take on a whole nother meaning now. A couple of years ago I remember making my hour long trip to work where I supervised a department that due to layoffs was overworked and I was catching heat for the work not getting done from corporate and worried about getting laid off myself. (It was a lot like the movie Office Space) I felt like I was fighting a losing battle and Badlands and Promised Land literally gave me the strength to go into the building. Sounds corny but listening to this CD was like a religous experience. Even though there is uncertainty and darkness in these songs there is still a sense of hope. Thanks for the inspiration Bruce.


All songs written by Bruce Springsteen.

Side one

"Badlands" – 4:01
"Adam Raised a Cain" – 4:32
"Something in the Night" – 5:11
"Candy's Room" – 2:51
"Racing in the Street" – 6:53

Side two

"The Promised Land" – 4:33
"Factory" – 2:17
"Streets of Fire" – 4:09
"Prove It All Night" – 3:56
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" – 4:30

 

[Dennie]

Where did you buy yours? If you bought it used, do you happen to know where it was originally purchased from?

You know how Walmart only sells edited versions of CDs, right? Perhaps Walmart told Melody's label "We won't carry it unless you change the cover photo". Another possibility is that yours is an import. :twocents-mytwocents:

...or a counterfeit! :think:



Dennie :confusion-shrug:

No idea. I got mine from an amazon reseller, but it was advertised as new, and had shrinkwrap on it. Guess there are just different versions of this out there...

I have to say, as a "collector" of things ( :doh: ), I found it very interesting that you have a different cover. So, I did some more investigation and found that to be a "Starbucks" version of her CD. I guess Starbucks didn't want to display the original artwork and had the art work changed, although I haven't been able to verify that..... YET!! :think:

Starbucks link -----> http://www.starbucksstore.com/melod...,default,pd.html?start=5&cgid=music-and-books

I really thought it was a "pirated" version or something. I'm glad it's not.


Dennie

PS I collect music for the value of the music, not the disc or cover art. But, after I started collecting, I found some disc's are worth a lot of money.

So, I get curious when someone has a "rare" version. :icon-wink:

 

[Dennie]

An Evening of Acoustic Music -- CD

Taj Mahal

1996 Ruf Records

Acoustic magic, December 27, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Evening of Acoustic Music (Audio CD)

This one's not BRAND new, but very recent & apparently only being discovered by a wide audience. LIVE Taj is a phenomena to be witnessed - ask anybody that's been on one of the Blues Cruises with him. Its tough to gauge his disks at first glance, because some contain different versions of the same songs. In his case, they're all good. This one's an acoustic gem. He does his interpretation of a Langston Hughes poem & teaches a German audience how to keep blues time. I won't waste your time with anything but something I can RAVE about. An original that exudes BLUES. One of my favorites & I have a LOT of blues disks.

"Stagger Lee"
"Dust My Broom"
"Take This Hammer"
"Blues with a Feeling"
"Big Legged Mamas Are Back in Style Again"
"Crossing"
"Come On in My Kitchen"
"Candy Man"
"Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too"
"Sittin' on Top of the World"
"Cake Walk into Town"
"Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie Anymo'"
"Big Kneed Gal"
"Texas Woman Blues"
"Tom & Sally Drake"

 

[PaulyT]

I really thought it was a "pirated" version or something. I'm glad it's not.


Dennie

PS I collect music for the value of the music, not the disc or cover art. But, after I started collecting, I found some disc's are worth a lot of money.

So, I get curious when someone has a "rare" version. :icon-wink:

Thanks, Dennie. Very interesting! Who knew Starbucks had their own music "brand"...

 

[Dennie]

I really thought it was a "pirated" version or something. I'm glad it's not.


Dennie

PS I collect music for the value of the music, not the disc or cover art. But, after I started collecting, I found some disc's are worth a lot of money.

So, I get curious when someone has a "rare" version. :icon-wink:

Thanks, Dennie. Very interesting! Who knew Starbucks had their own music "brand"...

Ahhhh..... I did!


Dennie

 

[PaulyT]

Well my coffee's better than theirs, so I'm not a patron. :snooty:

 

[Dennie]

Well my coffee's better than theirs, so I'm not a patron. :snooty:

I also buy their beans and make my own espresso, good stuff. :handgestures-thumbup:

But, if you see "Hear Music" on the back cover, that's Starbucks. I have some great compilations from them and I pick them up on the used market when I see them. New music from Starbucks usually $3 to $5 more than amazon. :handgestures-thumbdown:



Dennie

 

[Botch]

PS I collect music for the value of the music, not the disc or cover art. But, after I started collecting, I found some disc's are worth a lot of money.

So, I get curious when someone has a "rare" version. :icon-wink:

Like Dennie I'm in it for the music. Just by chance, however, I bought this album the day it came out:

I didn't listen to it that day, as I was too glued to the television: September 11, 2001. Now, look at the cover, with the NYC skyline on fire, Twin Towers prominent. That album was pulled the very next day, and later released with a different cover.
I still have my copy, in the original cellophane. Have not tried to see what its worth, but maybe someday. I never bought it in the next cover to listen to it, a DVD concert version came out soon after and I have that (DT is best appreciated Live in Concert :music-rockout: ).

 

[Dennie]

PS I collect music for the value of the music, not the disc or cover art. But, after I started collecting, I found some disc's are worth a lot of money.

So, I get curious when someone has a "rare" version. :icon-wink:

Like Dennie I'm in it for the music. Just by chance, however, I bought this album the day it came out:

I didn't listen to it that day, as I was too glued to the television: September 11, 2001. Now, look at the cover, with the NYC skyline on fire, Twin Towers prominent. That album was pulled the very next day, and later released with a different cover.
I still have my copy, in the original cellophane. Have not tried to see what its worth, but maybe someday. I never bought it in the next cover to listen to it, a DVD concert version came out soon after and I have that (DT is best appreciated Live in Concert :music-rockout: ).

Great Story! Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001 was a bad day for music sales period. That is a collectable. :text-bravo:

I bought Johnny Depp's movie "Ed Wood" on release day....

It was pulled off the shelf the same day and they deleted one of the special features on "Cross Dressing" and reissued it. I have the original and it now goes for about $100.

I think I paid $15 or $20 for it! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening....

Blue Country Heart -- CD

Jorma Kaukonen

2002 Columbia Records

Amazon.com

Singer and guitarist extraordinaire Jorma Kaukonen was a devoted aficionado of early-20th-century rural music long before he cofounded Jefferson Airplane in 1965 and Hot Tuna some years later. On his new solo album, Kaukonen has found an imaginative setting to remind listeners how a fusion of styles and influences from both black and white musicians defined American country music in its formative decades. Included here are gems, both familiar and obscure, by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers, the Delmore Brothers, Jimmie Davis, Cliff Carlisle, and other country musicians who were clearly inspired by their blues cousins. Backed by the Nashville All-Stars, a supersonic string band comprising bluegrass masters Sam Bush (mandolin), Jerry Douglas (Dobro), Béla Fleck (banjo), and Byron House (stand-up bass), all playing on vintage 1920s and '30s acoustic instruments, Kaukonen revives and vividly reinterprets these blues-drenched country classics for a new generation of listeners. --Bob Allen

"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

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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]

Today's work truck music...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack -- CD

Various Artists

2000 Lost Highway Records

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

The best soundtracks are like movies for the ears, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? joins the likes of Saturday Night Fever and The Harder They Come as cinematic pinnacles of song. The music from the Coen brothers' Depression-era film taps into the source from which the purest strains of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and gospel music flow. Producer T Bone Burnett enlists the voices of Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, and kindred spirits for performances of traditional material, in arrangements that are either a cappella or feature bare-bones accompaniment. Highlights range from the aching purity of Krauss's "Down to the River to Pray" to the plainspoken faith of the Whites' "Keep on the Sunny Side" to Stanley's chillingly plaintive "O Death." The album's spiritual centerpiece finds Krauss, Welch, and Harris harmonizing on "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," a gospel lullaby that sounds like a chorus of Appalachian angels. --Don McLeese

1. "Po' Lazarus" traditional James Carter and the Prisoners 4:31
2. "Big Rock Candy Mountain" McClintock Harry McClintock 2:16
3. "You Are My Sunshine" Davis, Mitchell Norman Blake 4:26
4. "Down to the River to Pray" traditional Alison Krauss 2:55
5. "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version) Dick Burnett Soggy Bottom Boys & Dan Tyminski 3:10
6. "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" James Chris Thomas King 2:42
7. "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental) Burnett Norman Blake 4:28
8. "Keep On the Sunny Side" Blenkhorn, Entwisle The Whites 3:33
9. "I'll Fly Away" Brumley Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch 3:57
10. "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby" traditional Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch 1:57
11. "In the Highways" Carter Leah, Sarah, and Hannah Peasall 1:35
12. "I Am Weary, Let Me Rest" Roberts (Kuykendall) The Cox Family 3:13
13. "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental) Burnett John Hartford 2:34
14. "O Death" traditional Ralph Stanley 3:19
15. "In the Jailhouse Now" Blind Blake, Rodgers Soggy Bottom Boys & Tim Blake Nelson 3:34
16. "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band) Burnett Soggy Bottom Boys & Dan Tyminski 4:16
17. "Indian War Whoop" (instrumental) Hoyt Ming John Hartford 1:30
18. "Lonesome Valley" traditional The Fairfield Four 4:07
19. "Angel Band" traditional The Stanley Brothers 2:15
Total length:
61:24

 

[No-L]

This has become one of my favorite albums. (Thanks, Zing!)

 

[GreatDane]

 

[Rope]

Rope

 

[GreatDane]