What Are You Listening To?

[Rope]

:handgestures-thumbup:
This is SOOO not my kind of music yet I'm inexplicably enjoying it.

You of all people bought that one.............................. :scared-yipes:

You know the musical past of those 2 ...............right?

I need to order it.....................

In fact we will be up in Corpus Christi this weekend and there are actual CD Music stores up there, maybe I can find it!!!

Shut the front door. Tell me it's true. I haven't saw an actual music store outlet in 20 plus years.

Rope

 

[No-L]

:handgestures-thumbup:
This is SOOO not my kind of music yet I'm inexplicably enjoying it.

I don't remember hearing your Squackett. Can I listen next time you invite me over? (hint hint)

 

[Zing]

I don't remember hearing your Squackett. Can I listen next time you invite me over? (hint hint)

it wasn't here when you were last over. Sometimes I buy music WITHOUT telling you. :teasing-neener:

 

[Zing]

 

[No-L]

^^^More secret new music?
:teasing-neener:

 

[Dennie]

Nice..... :eusa-clap:


Dennie

 

[Zing]

^^^More secret new music?
:teasing-neener:

No. I've had this for nearly 2 years. I've suggested that you check her out. Why you didn't is beyond me.

 

[No-L]

Because the list to "check out" is longer than my arm!!! And I'm going broke from liking and buying to much stuff that I check out!

Now she's on my list.

 

[Zing]

And I'm going broke from liking and buying to much stuff that I check out!

Get yourself a part time job.

 

[No-L]

I've already got two of those.


A much better idea is to just listen at your house!
Ha!

 

[Zing]

This weekend's new music queue...

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Creedence Gold -- CD

Creedence Clearwater Revival

1991 Fantasy Records

Creedence Gold is a collection of Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit singles. Unfortunately, the album is a little too small to meet anybody's needs. A mere eight tracks are featured on Creedence Gold. Admittedly, these are eight tracks of amazing quality, but those looking for a more thorough collection will be pleased with the much more in-depth Chronicle, Vol. 1. Creedence Gold shows off the musical talent involved in the band. The 11-plus-minute "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a fine showcase for Creedence's lead guitar styling, while "Born on the Bayou" is a fine sampler of how the band worked as a unit. By no means is Creedence Gold a bad album. Indeed, the eight tracks featured are eight of the best moments in their respective genres.

Side 1

"Proud Mary"
"Down on the Corner"
"Bad Moon Rising"
"I Heard it Through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong)

Side 2

"The Midnight Special" (Traditional)
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain"
"Born on the Bayou"
"Susie Q" (Eleanor Broadwater, Dale Hawkins, Stanley Lewis)

 

[Dennie]

SMOOTH -- CD

Gerald Albright

1994 Atlantic Records

The title to Smooth is appropriate -- the album is a collection of slick fusion, drawing more from urban R&B than jazz. However, smooth can be good, as Gerald Albright proves throughout the album. The saxophonist is a proficient, graceful player and he can create a romantic atmosphere rather effortlessly. Jazz purists may disdain it, but Smooth would please any of the saxist's fans. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing
1. Don't Worry About It
2. I Surrender
3. Sweet Baby
4. This Is For the Lover in You
5. G & Lee
6. Just 2 B With You
7. Anniversary
8. Passion
9. Sedona
10. Say It With Feeling

 

[Botch]

Here, Chicago reworks the classic Big Band tunes in their own style; fun!
:music-rockout:

 

[Dennie]

Fruitcakes -- CD

Jimmy Buffett

1994 MCA Records

Packaged Sunshine, March 28, 2001
By Elderbear (Loma Linda, Aztlan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fruitcakes (Audio CD)

I know CDs aren't supposed to wear out when you play them, but I play this one enough that I worry about it. Daily. The alarm goes off. I hit snooze. I hit play. The lively beat of "Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami" usually brings me most of the way into consciousness. "Fruitcakes" leaves me awake & chuckling. The rest is shower/dressing/breakfast/email music.

I'm not a Buffett Fan. Y'all can take Margarittaville & go Get Drunk & Screw for all I care. Most of his other stuff holds no appeal to me. But this CD is different (fans beware) & I like it. It's laid back, with just enough of a Carribean feel to be "exotic." Buffett's sense of humor shines through brightly.

Some tracks, like "Six String Music" & "Love in the Library" are unremarkable, but I find them staying with me in a lilting & upbeat way. The ode to his daughter "Delaney Talks to Statues" gets me every time, but I'm sentimental & my own daughter is growing up way too fast. I own a lot of Grateful Dead CDs (several changer cartridges full). I find his interpretation of "Uncle John's Band" enjoyable & refreshing rather than inept and blasphemous. He gets the spirit of that song & manifests it with good humor. He cracks "Apocalypso," as the ultimate existentialist joke.

Five stars for a playful, sunny masterpiece. I love it. I have it on good authority that Joe Merchant does, too.

"Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami" (Jimmy Buffett, Michael Tschudin) – 7:19
"Fruitcakes" (Jimmy Buffett, Amy Lee) – 7:40
"Lone Palm" (Jimmy Buffett) – 4:28
"Six String Music" (Jimmy Buffett, G.E. Smith) – 3:25
"Uncle John's Band" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 4:30
"Love in the Library" (Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally) – 4:40
"Quietly Making Noise" (Jimmy Buffett, Michael Tschudin) – 5:51
"Frenchman for the Night" (Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth) – 4:30
"Sunny Afternoon" (Ray Davies) – 4:12
"Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost" (Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 4:53
"She's Got You" (Hank Cochran) – 2:46
"Delaney Talks to Statues" (Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Amy Lee) – 3:41
"Apocalypso" (Matt Betton) – 3:56

 

[Zing]

Thank you Heeman for this one. I'm enjoying it a lot.

 

[Dennie]

Thank you Heeman for this one. I'm enjoying it a lot.

If you want to put some pictures to it, watch this......

Every time I listen to "Diva", I think of Demi (nude :handgestures-thumbup: ) in Striptease. :happy-smileygiantred:



Dennie bscene-drinkingcheers:

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening...

Left of Cool -- CD

Bela Fleck and The Flecktones

1998 Warner Bros. Records

Amazon.com

What's left for Bela Fleck? Bluegrass, rock, jazz, classical, rock, folk--he's explored them all. After an epic, Grammy-winning live album, Fleck returns to the studio for a surprisingly subtle, intricate suite of instrumentals--and a number of vocal tracks--combining his usual daring on banjo with mandolin, synths, and theremin. The record is a dreamy soundtrack of reggae, pop, world beat, and techno, merging into an ambient-vibe-spin-club-funk-jazz (such a cumbersome label for his agile music). The most satisfying moments come with the most lovely melodies--as on the lilting "Big Country"--when Fleck's traditional soul rises with a clear voice through the virtuosity and studio wizardry.--Roy Francis Kasten
Jazz Times

On 15 tracks [Bela Fleck] supplements [the bluegrass banjo] with mandolin, synthesizer, sitar, various guitars and the multi-stringed theramin. The result is a wonderfully wild musical outing.
Note: the liner notes swap tracks 6 and 7. The list below reflects the tracks as they are ordered on the album itself.

"Throwdown At The Hoedown" (Béla Fleck) – 5:09
"Communication" (music: Fleck/Future Man; lyrics: Fleck) – 4:16
"Big Country" (Fleck) – 5:31
"Sojourn Of Arjuna" (music: Victor Wooten/Future Man; lyrics: Future Man, adapted from Bhagavad Gita) – 5:27
"Let Me Be The One" (music: Wooten/Fleck/Future Man; lyrics: Fleck) – 4:38
"Trane To Conamarra" (Fleck/Jeff Coffin) – 6:48
"Almost 12" (Wooten/Fleck/Future Man) – 3:15
"Step Quiet" (Fleck/Sarah Mason) – 4:02
"Oddity" (Fleck) – 5:32
"Sleeping Dogs Lie" (Fleck) – 4:02
"Trouble and Strife" (Fleck) – 5:15
"Slow Walker" (Fleck) – 5:23
"shanti" (Fleck/Coffin) – 5:12
"The Big Blink" (Fleck) – 7:57
"Prelude To Silence" (Future Man) – 3:55

 

[Dennie]

Diva -- CD

Annie Lennox

1992 Arista Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Although traces of her synthpop roots certainly showed through, Annie Lennox's solo debut, Diva, made it abundantly clear that her new material would veer away from gender-bending robotics of the early Eurythmics sound and continue toward the more emotionally grounded soul of later releases. On Diva, Lennox infuses each song with tenderly perceptive lyrics, hypnotic rhythms, and irresistibly soulful wailings. Her arrangements are clean and simple, utilizing bare instrumentation and sometimes-languid chord work. The singles "Walking on Broken Glass," "Little Bird," and "Why" became radio mainstays, while gems such as the Eastern-influenced dream ballad "Primitive," the hauntingly autobiographical pop-lament "Legend in My Living Room," and the cheerfully satirical "Keep Young and Beautiful" gave the album a plump maturity. --Sally Weinbach

1. "Why" 4:53
2. "Walking on Broken Glass" 4:12
3. "Precious" 5:08
4. "Legend in My Living Room" (Lennox, Peter-John Vettese) 3:45
5. "Cold" 4:20
6. "Money Can't Buy It" 4:58
7. "Little Bird" 4:48
8. "Primitive" 4:16
9. "Stay by Me" 6:26
10. "The Gift" (Lennox, The Blue Nile) 4:52
11. "Keep Young and Beautiful" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) (CD bonus track) 2:17

 

[Dennie]

Here We Go Again - Celebrating The Genius of Ray Charles -- CD

Willie Nelson - Wynton Marsalis featuring Norah Jones

2011 Blue Note Records

It's better the second time out - Nelson is looser, Great solos PLUS there's a lady in the vocal mix., April 3, 2011
By Steven I. Ramm "Steve Ramm "Anything Phon... (Phila, PA USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles (Audio CD)

Last year's release of the "Two Men With The Blues" - a concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis - on both CD and and DVD received lots of media attention. It was an interesting concept but didn't quite work perfectly for me. This follow-up release - which was actually released on DVD in 2009, but making its AUDIO appearance in 2011 - works much better. And, no its not because of the addition of singer Norah Jones. Nelson seems much "looser" (if that's the proper term) than on the "Blues" release. Just listen to him on "Unchain My Heart" where he actually sounds aggressive - not an adjective often applied to Nelson's laid-back style of singing. That track is one of the highlights for other reasons. Drummer Ali Jackson (a long time member of Marsalis' band) has a great percussion solo - followed by a nice trumpet solo by Marsalis - that precedes Nelson's vocal refrain. If the album had just this track and the closer - "What'd I Say" with vocals by Nelson, Jones and Marsalis - it would be worth getting. Not everything is as perfect. Nelson and Jones duet on "Cryin' time and both their vocals sound weak. But one weak track out of 12 - and all have a length that allows for instrumental solos - is not bad.

The CD is a tribute to the songs associated with Ray Charles, with more emphasis on the jazz and R&B than on his "country music period", and all the hits are hit - along with a few more obscure Charles recordings like "I Love You So Much".

This should appeal to both jazz and Nelson's "classic country"/pop music fans.

Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"

1. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" Don Lanier, Red Steagall 4:54
2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (featuring Norah Jones) Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer 3:52
3. "Unchain My Heart" Teddy Powell, Bobby Sharp 5:35
4. "Cryin' Time" (featuring Norah Jones) Buck Owens 4:32
5. "Losing Hand" Charles Calhoun 5:16
6. "Hit the Road Jack" (featuring Norah Jones) Percy Mayfield 7:45
7. "I'm Moving On" Hank Snow 5:44
8. "Busted" Harlan Howard 3:52
9. "Here We Go Again" (featuring Norah Jones) Don Lanier, Red Steagall 5:10
10. "Makin' Whoopee" (featuring Norah Jones) Gus Kahn 4:54
11. "I Love You So Much It Hurts" Floyd Tillman 2:52
12. "What'd I Say" (featuring Norah Jones) Ray Charles 6:11