What Are You Listening To?

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music...

Guitar Rock 1972-1973 -- CD :handgestures-thumbup:

Various Artists

1994 Time Life Music

01 - Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
02 - The Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll
03 - Focus - Hocus Pocus
04 - Alice Cooper - School's Out
05 - Grand Funk - We're An American Band
06 - T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On)
07 - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
08 - The Doobie Brothers - China Grove
09 - Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes
11 - The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
12 - Yes - Rounabout
13 - Argent - Hold Your Head Up
14 - Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
15 - The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
16 - Jo Jo Gunne - Run Run Run
17 - Black Sabbath - Iron Man
18 - Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Part 2

 

[Dennie]

Workingman's Dead :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup:

Grateful Dead

1970 Warner Bros. Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Workingman's Dead and its successor from later in 1970, American Beauty, are the Dead albums even non-Deadheads embrace. With these two new-decade statements, the group reigned in its demonstrative instrumental side in favor of a pithier presentation of prize tunes. The opener, "Uncle John's Band," signaled that this was a relatively streamlined Dead. "Dire Wolf," "Cumberland Blues," and "Casey Jones" hammer the point home: The Grateful Dead could set aside the jams for a while and make a great album. --Steven Stolder

Side one

1. "Uncle John's Band" – 4:42
2. "High Time" – 5:12
3. "Dire Wolf" – 3:11
4. "New Speedway Boogie" – 4:01

Side two

1. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 3:14
2. "Black Peter" – 5:41
3. "Easy Wind" (Hunter) – 4:57
4. "Casey Jones" – 4:24

 

[Dennie]

Eat A Peach 2 LP Set :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup:

The Allman Brothers Band

1972 Capricorn Records

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Having firmly established themselves as "The Grateful Dead of the South" via their enormously successful 1971 Live at the Fillmore East double album, the Allman Brothers had just begun work on a new studio collection when slide guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident. Undaunted, the group rallied together and completed Eat a Peach, which, via inclusion of the 34-minute-plus "Mountain Jam," blossomed into a double LP. While keyboardist-singer Gregg Allman shone on tracks like Sonny Boy Williamson's "One Way Out" and his own "Melissa," it was second guitarist Dickey Betts who came out from under the departed Allman's shadow with his lead vocal on "Blue Sky" and his incendiary playing throughout. --Billy Altman

1. "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" (Gregg Allman) – 3:40 (c)
2. "Les Brers in A Minor" (Dickey Betts) – 9:03 (c)
3. "Melissa" (Gregg Allman/Steve Alaimo) – 3:54 (c)
4. "Mountain Jam" (Donovan Leitch/Duane Allman/Gregg Allman/Dickey Betts/Jai Johanny Johansen/Berry Oakley/Butch Trucks) – 33:38 (a)
5. "One Way Out" (Marshall Sehorn/Elmore James) – 4:58 (b)
6. "Trouble No More" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:43 (a)
7. "Stand Back" (Gregg Allman/Berry Oakley) – 3:24 (c)
8. "Blue Sky" (Dickey Betts) – 5:09 (c)
9. "Little Martha" (Duane Allman) – 2:07 (c)

(a)Recorded live at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, March 12 & 13, 1971.(b)Recorded live at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, June 27, 1971.(c)Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, September through December 1971.

On the original LP, side one consisted of the first three tracks — studio numbers recorded after Duane's death. Side two consisted of the first 19:37 of "Mountain Jam". Side three consisted of the remaining five tracks which include three studio numbers recorded with Duane. Side four consisted of the final 15:06 of "Mountain Jam" including some initial overlap with the end of side two.

 

[Dennie]

Yellow Submarine -- Remastered CD :handgestures-thumbup:

The Beatles

1969/2009 EMI Records

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The most dashed-off of the Beatles' records, Yellow Submarine doesn't have much to it: the goofy title track and "All You Need Is Love" are reprised from earlier discs, George Martin's trifle of a score to the animated Submarine feature takes up the second half, and that leaves just four relatively insubstantial new tracks. The Beatles' throwaways are anyone else's classics, though: "Hey Bulldog," the last song Lennon and McCartney wrote in full collaboration, has the instinctive urgency of their best work, Paul's singalong "All Together Now" is awfully cute, and more than one band has dedicated its career to trying to replicate what George's guitars are doing on his dazed, pulsing "It's All Too Much." --Douglas Wolk

 

[Yesfan70]

One of my favorite albums as it brings back a lot of memories for me.

 

[Dennie]

That Lucky Old Sun :text-bravo:

Brian Wilson

2008 Brimmel/Capitol Records

The Genius of Brian Wilson, September 3, 2008
By
Frank C. Branchini "beatlefanfcb" (Edgewater, MD USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: That Lucky Old Sun (Audio CD)

That Lucky Old Sun is a work of pure genius. This isn't Wilson's best solo work, the honor still goes to Smile, but it is close.

Conceptually (not sonically) it calls to mind Days of Future Passed and John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. The concept and the mixture of spoken words and music call to mind The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed.

On Lucky Old Sun, Brian Wilson speaks directly to the listener and shares what is going on in his life just as John Lennon did on songs like Mother. There is a tremendous honesty here. The message is that Brian is back, mentally as well as physically. When he first started touring again he didn't looked very rigid and it was clear he wasn't entirely comfortable. The video in the deluxe package shows Brian smiling, animated, and looking fully engaged. It is miraculous and joyful.

This is a very emotionally powerful work. I was touched by his memories of his brothers:

I had this dream
Singing with my brothers
In harmony, supporting each other
Tail winds, wheels spin, down the pacific coast
Surfin' on the A. M., heard those voice again

and by his description of his own struggles:

At 25 I turned out the light
Cause I couldn't handle the glare in my tired eyes

This is a beautiful release. Very highly recommended. It is worth purchasing the Best Buy version with three bonus tracks including a duet with Carole King on I'm Into Something Good. King co-wrote the Herman's Hermits hit with Gerry Goffin.

The deluxe version contains a DVD with a 19 minute making of feature (I think this is identical to the special broadcast on VH-1 Classic) and two live performances in the studio. The making of film and the live performances are interesting but probably essential for casual fans.

1. "That Lucky Old Sun"
2. "Morning Beat"
3. "A Room With a View" (narrative)
4. "Good Kind of Love"
5. "Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl"
6. "Venice Beach" (narrative)
7. "Live Let Live / That Lucky Old Sun (reprise)"
8. "Mexican Girl"
9. "Cinco de Mayo" (narrative)
10. "California Role / That Lucky Old Sun (reprise)"
11. "Between Pictures" (narrative)
12. "Oxygen to the Brain"
13. "Can't Wait Too Long"
14. "Midnight’s Another Day"
15. "That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)"
16. "Going Home"
17. "Southern California"

 

[Dennie]

Boz and Duane "Skydog" Allman and a 12:48 minute version of "Loan Me A Dime".......Priceless! :text-bravo:

Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs

1969 Atlantic Records

Muscle Shoals plus Duane Allman plus Boz--a classic, November 23, 2003
By
John Stodder "a.k.a. Juan La Princi" (livin' just enough) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Boz Scaggs (Audio CD)

The rhythm section that propelled the great Atlantic soul singers like Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding...the legendary lead guitarist Duane Allman just as he was forming his great band...the keys to the kingdom were handed to the former Steve Miller Band guitarist and aspiring singer Boz Scaggs for his debut solo album in 1969...and boy oh boy did Boz ever deliver!

"Boz Scaggs" is another candidate for the greatest overlooked, unjustly forgotten album of the classic rock era. It wasn't overlooked in its own day. Back when FM radio was "free form" and could play 10 minute-long cuts, the amazing "Loan Me a Dime," a delicately soulful blues wail that evolves into a monstrous Allman guitar workout, was a staple, especially at night. But the whole album is as good as that climactic moment. "I'll Be Long Gone," which Tracey Nelson also memorably covered, is an emotional inspiration. There are many other highlights--"Look What I Got" has the emotional directness of the Band; "Sweet Release" is heavenly soul. The album is sequenced beautifully; it is almost flawless.

A lot of fans of this album like to bemoan the fact that Boz Scaggs seemed to "go commercial" in later years, especially with "Silk Degrees." I think this is the wrong way to look at his career. This album is so complete, so rich, and so thoroughly occupies the territory, what else could he have done with it? Scaggs obviously loves the whole wide expanse of soul, blues and R & B, and feels no need to settle into a single groove within that broad category. So, with each album, he explores a sound as thoroughly, creatively and thoughtfully as he can, and then, on his subsequent album, moves on to explore another aspect. "Silk Degrees" happened to be very successful, but it's just as fresh as this album, a classy, creative take on the dance music of its time. "Middle Man" went even further uptown; it is the only Steely Dan-influenced album that belongs on the same shelf with them.

Some day, a label like Rhino is going to do the kind of comprehensive job on Scaggs' career that they have done with other artists of this period, finally releasing the albums that have sunk out of sight like "Moments," unearthing some unreleased and obscure tracks that show his work with his consistently great array of sidemen, remastering (although this disk, old as it is, sounds just fine), maybe digging out some live performances (Scaggs has never released a full live album), and finally get this great artist the credit he is due.

All tracks composed by Boz Scaggs; except where indicated

1. "I'm Easy" (Scaggs, Barry Beckett)
2. "I'll Be Long Gone"
3. "Another Day (Another Letter)"
4. "Now You're Gone"
5. "Finding Her"
6. "Look What I Got" (Charles Chalmers, D. Rhodes)
7. "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers)
8. "Loan Me a Dime" (Fenton Robinson)
9. "Sweet Release (aka Desolation Avenue)" (Scaggs, Barry Beckett)

 

[Dennie]

The sound quality on this is Top Notch!! :text-bravo:

The Freewheelin'

Bob Dylan

1963 Columbia Records (Mono)

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Dylan's outstanding second album is a tremendous jump from its predecessor. Whereas the debut established him as a peerless interpreter of folk and country-blues classics, and a singer like none before, this followup features some of the most pungent original songs of the '60s. "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "I Shall Be Free": if this sounds like the lineup for a greatest-hits collection, you've got the idea. Nat Hentoff's liner notes are charmingly dated, but Dylan's idiosyncratic singing, unexpected lyrics, and inimitable guitar and harmonica playing are as immediate and relevant as whatever you heard on the radio today. (As great as this is, there's much more: a handful of top-rank outtakes from Freewheelin' appear on the Bootleg Series box set.) --Jimmy Guterman
Side one

1. "Blowin' in the Wind" – 2:48
2. "Girl from the North Country" – 3:22
3. "Masters of War" – 4:34
4. "Down the Highway" – 3:27
5. "Bob Dylan's Blues" – 2:23
6. "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 6:55

Side two

1. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – 3:40
2. "Bob Dylan's Dream" – 5:03
3. "Oxford Town" – 1:50
4. "Talkin' World War III Blues" – 6:28
5. "Corrina, Corrina" (Traditional) – 2:44
6. "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" (Dylan, Henry Thomas) – 2:01
7. "I Shall Be Free" – 4:49

 

[Dennie]

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

1970 Atlantic Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Less than a year after the release of CSN's groundbreaking debut, the group returned with Stephen Stills's former Buffalo Springfield cohort/rival Neil Young augmenting the threesome. The result is a less concentrated but more kinetic creation; Young swims through the celestial harmonies of rock's best barbershop trio like a fly in consommé. While somewhat dated ("Almost Cut My Hair"? Wait a while, David, it'll fall out), Deju Vu is teeming with early '70s FM staples, including "Helpless," "Teach Your Children," and "Our House." --Steven Stolder

Side one

1. "Carry On" (Stephen Stills) – 4:26
* Stills - guitars, organ, bass, lead vocal; David Crosby - guitar, vocal; Graham Nash - guitar, vocal; Dallas Taylor - drums, percussion
2. "Teach Your Children" (Nash) – 2:53
* Nash - guitar, lead vocal; Stills - guitar, bass, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar; Taylor - tambourine
3. "Almost Cut My Hair" (Crosby) – 4:31
* Crosby - electric guitar, vocal; Stills - electric guitar; Nash - organ; Neil Young - electric guitar; Greg Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
4. "Helpless" (Young) – 3:33
* Young - guitar, harmonica, lead vocal; Stills - electric guitar, piano, vocal; Nash - guitar, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
5. "Woodstock" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:54
* Stills - electric guitar, organ, lead vocal; Nash - electric guitar, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Young - electric guitar; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums

Side two

1. "Déjà Vu" (Crosby) – 4:12
* Crosby - guitar, lead vocal; Stills - electric guitar, vocal; Nash - guitar, piano, vocal; John Sebastian - harmonica; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
2. "Our House" (Nash) – 2:59
* Nash - piano, harpsichord, lead vocal; Stills - bass, vocal; Crosby - vocal; Taylor - drums
3. "4 + 20" (Stills) – 2:04
* Stills - guitar, vocal
4. "Country Girl" ("Whiskey Boot Hill," "Down, Down, Down," "Country Girl (I Think You're Pretty)") (Young) – 5:11
* Young - guitar, organ, harmonica, lead vocal; Stills - guitar, vocal; Crosby - guitar, vocal; Nash - guitar, vocal; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums
5. "Everybody I Love You" (Stills, Young) – 2:21
* Stills - electric guitar, organ, vocal; Crosby - electric guitar, vocal; Nash - vocal; Young - electric guitar; Reeves - bass; Taylor - drums

 

[Dennie]

Pirates -- :text-bravo:

Rickie Lee Jones

1981 Warner Bros. Records

No Question, a Masterpiece, January 7, 2003
By

Karl Miller "kemspeaks" (Phoenixville, PA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Pirates (Audio CD)

Rickie Lee Jones' 2nd album marked a radical departure for the beret wearing, Jack Daniel's swilling Coolsville resident. Piano-based and Steely Dan influenced, "Pirates" remains, over 20 years after it's release one of the most haunting pieces of music ever recorded. It marked a creative highwater mark that (unfortunately for all), Rickie has never again reached.

From the opening notes of "We Belong Together", it's clear that this work is much sadder than her debut. "We Belong Together" is every great male-rocking-loner song, with incredible shifts of tempo and texture, and a vocal performance that is gut-wrenching. "Living It Up", with its "Wild, and the Only Ones" chorus and awesome bridge (thanks to a great contribution from Sal Bernardi, Rickie's ex-lover and long term accompaniest), is the musical equivalent of the solemn Brassai photograph that adorns the album's cover. "Woody and Dutch" is the keyboard cousin of Rickie's "Danny's All Star Joint", with caramel coated basslines and cotton candy spun call and response vocals. "Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)" reminds you of why horns are so sadly missed in this era of teen vocals and electronic instrumentation. And the genuine masterpiece of this album, "Traces Of The Western Slope" is a near 8 minute tribute to distant ghosts, vacant eyed dope fiends and sexual awakening, played out with Becker and Fagen inspired instrumentation and Tom Waits like lyrics. No woman has ever written, or laid down a jazz/rock classic that comes near this song.

Between birthdays, Christmas gifts, and replacing copies that I have owned (on 3 different formats), I have probably purchased at least 30 copies of this disc over the years. And yet I still don't feel like I have fully compensated Rickie Lee for the contribution she made to my muscial education with this album. It has grown with me like an old friend, and remains to this day an all time favorite.

1. "We Belong Together"
2. "Living It Up"
3. "Skeletons"
4. "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" (Jones, David Kalish)
5. "Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)"
6. "A Lucky Guy"
7. "Traces of the Western Slopes" (Sal Bernardi, Jones)
8. "The Returns"

 

[Dennie]

Living and Dying in 3/4 Time -- :text-bravo:

Jimmy Buffett

1974 ABC/Dunhill DSD-50132

Buffet's Best, September 29, 2007
By B. Browne - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Living & Dying in 3/4 Time (Audio CD)

I was first introduced to this album while working in a record store in Oklahoma in 1974. The original album cover, which folded open to reveal a stylized map of Key West, made Buffett and Key West seem exotic to me. Having lived in Florida for nearly twenty years now, the Keys no longer hold the mystique that they once did, but the pristine orginality of this album stills shines through clearly. This album represents Buffett's art long before he attained the near universal fame that he now enjoys. While I have enjoyed many of his more recent songs, I still hold that the quality of the cuts here remain unsurpassed. They do not even hint of the "beaches, boats and bars" themes that pervade the majority of Buffett's later reportoire. The sound here is largely country/folk rock and the themes are varied, perhaps the most persuasive focused on the travails of being an itinerant performer, as is evident in the still moving "Come Monday" and "Ringling." Though this album is over thirty years old, it offers extraordinarily compelling lyrics and music. Check this out and meet the original Jimmy Buffett.

Side A:

1. "Pencil Thin Moustache"[1] (Jimmy Buffett) – 2:47
2. "Come Monday" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:06
3. "Ringling, Ringling" (Jimmy Buffett) – 2:32
4. "Brahma Fear" (Jimmy Buffett) – 4:05
5. "Brand New Country Star" (V. Arnold, Jimmy Buffett) – 2:40
6. "Livingston's Gone to Texas" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:28

Side B:

1. "The Wino and I Know" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:00
2. "West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown" (Jimmy Buffett) – 2:34
3. "Saxophones" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:18
4. "Ballad of Spider John" (Willis Alan Ramsey) – 4:26
5. "God's Own Drunk" (Lord Buckley) – 6:19

 

[Botch]

I had forgotten just how good this was... :handgestures-thumbup:

 

[Botch]

Pirates --

Rickie Lee Jones

1981 Warner Bros. Records

No Question, a Masterpiece, January 7, 2003

A Masterpiece, indeed... :text-bravo:

 

[Dennie]

Neil Diamonds' Greatest Hits -- :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup:

Neil Diamond

1968 Bang Records

Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits was the first compilation album of songs recorded by Neil Diamond. It was released in 1968 by Bang Records after Diamond left Bang for Uni Records. Bang would eventually release four Neil Diamond compilation albums on top of the two original Diamond albums which Bang issued in 1966 and 1967.[2] Ten of the twelve songs on this album are original Diamond compositions with the remaining two cover versions of oldies. After Columbia Records absorbed Bang Records, this album was replaced by a new compilation titled Classics: The Early Years which replaced the cover songs with additional Diamond originals: "I'm A Believer" (which became a hit for The Monkees) and "Shilo" which Bang initially rejected as a single but was later released as a single and became a hit in 1970 after this album was released.
Side one

1. "Cherry, Cherry"
2. "Oh No No"
3. "New Orleans" (Frank Guida, Joseph Royster)
4. "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"
5. "Do It"
6. "You Got to Me"

Side Two

1. "Solitary Man"
2. "Kentucky Woman"
3. "Thank the Lord for the Night Time"
4. "Red, Red Wine"
5. "Hanky Panky" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich)
6. "The Boat That I Row"

 

[Dennie]

Abbey Road -- :text-bravo:

The Beatles

1969 Apple Records

Amazon.com essential recording

The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. --Rickey Wright

Side One

1. "Come Together" Lennon 4:20
2. "Something" (George Harrison) Harrison 3:03
3. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" McCartney 3:27
4. "Oh! Darling" McCartney 3:26
5. "Octopus's Garden" (Richard Starkey) Starr 2:51
6. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Lennon 7:47

Side Two

1. "Here Comes the Sun" (Harrison) Harrison 3:05
2. "Because" Lennon, McCartney and Harrison 2:45
3. "You Never Give Me Your Money" McCartney 4:02
4. "Sun King" Lennon, with McCartney and Harrison 2:26
5. "Mean Mr. Mustard" Lennon 1:06
6. "Polythene Pam" Lennon 1:12
7. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" McCartney 1:57
8. "Golden Slumbers" McCartney 1:31
9. "Carry That Weight" McCartney with Lennon, Harrison and Starr 1:36
10. "The End" McCartney 2:05
11. "Her Majesty" McCartney 0:23

 

[Dennie]

An oldie but a goodie........ :text-bravo:

September Song

Jimmy Durante

1962 Warner Bros. Records 1506

After decades of novelty and comedy recordings, film roles and television work, Jimmy Durante was invited into the studio to record a "serious" album of standards and originals. Durante himself was uncertain about the project, but the resulting album was in every way a success. It was Durante's only album to enter the Top 40, and the title track made Billboard's Top Pop 100. Mixing Durante's utterly unique voice with lush strings and a vocal chorus, September Song is a left-field masterpiece full of wistful and affecting performances. Durante was by no means a technically accomplished vocalist, but he negotiated the sessions with aplomb and created a piece of work very different from, but just as charming as, the comedy that had made him a star. ~ Greg Adams, All Music Guide

1. September Song
2. Look Ahead Little Girl
3. Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep
4. When The Circus Leaves Town
5. I Believe
6. Young At Heart
7. Don't Lose Your Sense Of Humour
8. You'll Never Walk Alone
9. One Room Home
10. Blue Bird Of Happiness

 

[Dennie]

Porgy and Bess -- :text-bravo:

Lena Horne & Harry Belafonte

1959 RCA Victor LSO-1507

Porgy and Bess is an album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It includes songs from George Gershwin's operetta Porgy and Bess. Belafonte and Horne sing two songs together: "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" and "Bess, You is My Woman."[1] The album was re-issued on a 2CD set in 2003 together with Jamaica by BMG Collectables in Stereo.

All music composed by George Gershwin, lyricists indicated.

1. "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" (DuBose Heyward) – 2:40
2. "Summertime" (Heyward) – 3:11
3. "Oh I Got Plenty of Nothing" (Ira Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:00
4. "I Wants You to Stay Here" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:30
5. "Bess, You is My Woman" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 5:57
6. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (I. Gershwin) – 3:03
7. "Street Calls:" (Heyward) – 4:17
1. "Strawberry Woman"
2. "The Honey Man"
3. "Crab Man"
8. "My Man's Done Gone" – 4:05
9. "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (I. Gershwin) – 3:36
10. "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" – 2:37

 

[Dennie]

Banjo In Hi Fi -- :teasing-tease:

Paul Martin and his Old-Timers

1957 Tops Records L - 1572

From early childhood Paul Martin and music were close friends. His acclaim came early while playing banjo in high school and college orchestras. His first career jobs were with theater orchestras in New York. He moved to San Francisco to become the banjoist and guitarist for the NBC studios.
During and after W.W.II Paul toured across the nation with his big band. In 1949 Paul dropped the big band format and began working with small groups.

L 1572/9572 S - Banjo in Hi-Fi [stereo title: The Roaring 20's] - Paul Martin and His Old-Timers [1957] Original title was Banjo in Hi-Fi, but this was later changed to The Roaring '20s for the stereo issue on Tops/Mayfair. When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobing Along (S)/Yes Sir, That's My Baby (S)/I Love A Banjo (S)/Somebody Stole My Gal (S)/Bye Bye Blues (S)/Five Foot Two (S)//Alabamy Bound (S)/Mary Lou (S)/Back Home Again In Indiana (S)/Oh, By Jingo (S)/Sheik Of Araby (S)/Side By Side (E)

 

[Dennie]

Blues With A Kick

Bobby Hackett

1958 Capitol Records

01. Good-bye Blues (McHugh-Fields-Johnson) 2:32
02. Weary Blues (Greene-Cates-Matthews) 2:49
03. Sugar Blues (C. Williams-L. Fletcher) 3:13
04. Blues In The Night (J. Mercer-H. Arlen) 3:32
05. Baker's Keyboard Blues (B. Hackett) 2:51
06. Wang Wang Blues (Mueller-Busse-Johnson) 2:38
07. Limehouse Blues (P. Braham-D. Furber) 2:41
08. Davenport Blues (B. Beiderbecke) 2:57
09. Blues In My Heart (B. Carter-I. Mills) 2:44
10. Alcoholic Blues (E. Laska-A. Von Tilzer) 2:45
11. Bye Bye Blues (Bennett-Gray-Hamm-Lown) 1:22
12. Blues With A Kick (B. Hackett-S. Applebaum) 2:53

Recorded in New York, on November 25-26, 1958
Bobby Hackett (cor)
Dave McKenna (p)
Nicky Tagg (p, org)
John Giuffrida, Milt Hinton (b)
Joe Porcaro (d)
Harry Breuer, Phil Kraus (vbs, perc)
string section (nine violins, two violas and two cellos) directed by Stan Applebaum

 

[Dennie]

I recently acquired this one.......

CG3 + 2 -- CD

California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto

2002 InsideOutMusic

Truly Masterful Playing, June 1, 2003
By
M. Storer "marks2112" (Camarillo, CA USA)
(REAL NAME)


This review is from: Cg3+2 (Audio CD)
Having seen CGT plus Levin and Mastelloto in concert, I was thrilled when I got this CD. I bought their Rocks The West CD from the concert and had all 5 members sign the disc. That's a keeper. I have to disagree with the first author on the page that said it was muzak. Far from it. Levin and Mastelloto are indeed at their best, but what's truly wonderful is the intricate playing from the CGT themselves. They seem to have really taken on their mantle as graduates from Robert Fripp's guitar craft and play incredibly nuanced pieces while having fun doing it.

There is such a spontaneous feel to so much of the music, even the cover of Yes's Heart of The Sunrise (one of that band's true Masterworks) feels fresh here. As with any good collection of virtuoso music, the listener is drawn in by some of the more accessible pieces so that by track 6 or 7, when the band whips up some more eclectic and noisy pieces, you feel like you've done the whole ride and loved it all.

If you're a musician, you'll never want to part with this collection. If you're an avid listener of rock, folk, progressive, jazz--you'll find something appealing on this CD.

Best played at over 60 miles an hour, alone--sound turned up...

California Guitar Trio: Paul Richards (guitar, slide guitar); Bert Lams (guitar, tenor guitar); Hideyo Moriya (guitar, mandocello).

Additional personnel: Tony Levin (bass, chapman stick); Pat Mastelotto (drums).


1. Melrose Avenue
2. Skyline
3. Dancing Anne
4. Heart of the Sunrise
5. Hanagasa
6. Zundoko-Bushi
7. Blockhead
8. Dance of Maya
9. Swampy Space
10. Swampy Return
11. Train to Lamy
12. Eve
13. What I Am
14. Chase, The