What Are You Listening To?

[Babs]

Another artist that is exceptionally talented.

Zing & I have followed his music for years! :handgestures-thumbup:

 

[Dennie]

Listen Here! -- CD

The Gene Harris Quartet

1989 Concord Records

Although often associated with the blues, only one of the ten selections on this quartet set by pianist Gene Harris (who is joined by guitarist Ron Eschete, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Jeff Hamilton) is technically a blues. On this excellent all-around showcase for the soulful pianist, Harris sounds in prime form exploring such tunes as "This Masquerade," "Don't Be That Way," Eddie Harris' "Listen Here," and "The Song Is Ended." Listen Here! gives listeners a pretty definitive look at Gene Harris' accessible and swinging style. ~ Scott Yanow

Track Listing
1. This Masquerade
2. Don't Be That Way
3. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
4. Listen Here
5. This Can't Be Love
6. To You
7. Blues for Jezebel
8. Sweet and Lovely
9. Lullabye
10. The Song Is Ended

Gene Harris Quartet: Gene Harris (piano); Ron Eschete (guitar); Ray Brown (bass); Jeff Hamilton (drums).Recorded at The Plant Recording Studios, Sausalito, California in March 1989.

 

[Dennie]

Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew -- CD

Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew

1987 Rounder Records

Great musicians and great fun., March 11, 2003
By Stephen R. Parrish (Milledgeville, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew (Audio CD)

I can't stop listening to this disk though I've had it for a decade but haven't payed much attention. Started out to make a Mardi Gras disk for a party this year and this knocked me off my feet now that I finally really listened. Sonny Landreth produces and plays. Richard Thompson was dragged from Jazz Fest. Just a bunch of musicians that love cajun music getting together and having fun, mostly with non-traditional stuff but the playing is tight and the whole thing really smokes. Was She a Woman or a Man is surreal.

1. Wooly Bully
2. Bayou Pom Pom
3. Un Autre Soir Ennuyant (Another Lonely Night)
4. Hey, Good Lookin' (Hé 'Tite Fille)
5. Last Wednesday Night (Mercredi Soir Passé)
6. Louie, Louie
7. Woman or a Man?
8. Pauline
9. Zydeco Boogaloo
10. Like a Real Cajun (Comme un Vrai Cajun)
11. J'Ai Passé Devant Ta Porte (I Passed by Your Door)
12. Do You Want to Dance? (Veux-Tu Danser)

 

[Babs]

Wow! The ring bearer at our wedding.

Then...

Interesting mix! But still awesome. :music-listening:

 

[Dennie]

City To City -- CD

Gerry Rafferty

1973/1990 Capitol Records

Amazon.com

It took Quentin Tarantino's using "Stuck in the Middle with You," the 1973 hit of Gerry Rafferty's former band Stealers Wheel, in Reservoir Dogs to make Rafferty hip again. But City to City, his 1978 solo breakthrough, has long been worth rediscovering--and not just because it contains "Baker Street," one of the biggest and best singles of the 1970s. Rafferty brilliantly modernizes his Scottish folk-rock background on such pop treasures as the churning title track, the minor follow-up hit "Right Down the Line," the bouncing ditty "Mattie's Rag," the enchantingly churchy "Whatever's Written in Your Heart," and others. It's as rewardingly refreshing a change of pace now as it was when it emerged in the midst of the disco era. --Peter Blackstock

"The Ark" – 5:36
"Baker Street" – 6:01
"Right Down the Line" – 4:20
"City to City" – 4:51
"Stealin' Time" – 5:39
"Mattie's Rag" – 3:28
"Whatever's Written in Your Heart" – 6:30
"Home and Dry" – 4:52
"Island" – 5:04
"Waiting for the Day" – 5:26

 

[Dennie]

At The Movies - Soundtrack Hits -- CD

Van Morrison

2007 Manhattan Records

Best Single Disc Van Morrison Collection Available!, February 16, 2007
By Anthony Accordino (Massapequa Park, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Van Morrison At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits (Audio CD)

If you are in the market to own just one Van Morrison CD collection, Van Morrison "At The Movies", is the disc for you. This cd combines 19 tracks from all phases of his long distinguished career. The Irish soul man has never sounded better with remastered clarity, that makes this the choice over "Greatest Hits Vol-1 & Vol-2. This cd actually combines the best of those two collections and more. His classic gems from the "Them" days "Gloria", and "Baby Please Don't Go", are included here as well. His reworking of "Brown Eyed Girl", proves he has not lost anything from those vocal chords. His live take on "Caravan" from the "Last Waltz", is one of the finest live recordings ever. Lots of modern gems here as well, like 'Days Like This", "Real Real Gone", and the "Bright Side Of The Road". The real treat on this collection however, is the inclusion of his collaboration with Pink Floyds Roger Waters, on "Comfotably Numb", which was recorded live in Berlin in 1986 and features Rick Danko and Levon Helm. Some outstanding ballads are here as well like, "Someone Like You", "Have I Told You Lately", "Wonderful Remark", and "Hungry For Your Love". Considering the price and the fantastic content of this cd, I consider this cd essential to everyone who is both new to Van Morrison music and to well seasoned fans who would like to add a career retrospective not available until now. It doesn't get any better than this.

"Gloria" (performed by Them) (from The Outsiders)
"Baby, Please Don't Go" (performed by Them) (from Wild at Heart)
"Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" (from The Pope of Greenwich Village and Queens Logic)
"Domino (Live) (from Clean and Sober)
"Moondance (Live) (from An American Werewolf in London) (previously unreleased version)
"Queen of the Slipstream" (from Extreme Close-Up)
"Wild Night" (from Twenty Four Seven)
"Caravan" (Live with The Band - from The Last Waltz, 1976)
"Wonderful Remark" (from The King of Comedy)
"Brown Eyed Girl" (from Born on the 4 July) (previously unreleased version)
"Days Like This" (from As Good as It Gets)
"Into the Mystic" (Live) (from Patch Adams)
"Hungry for Your Love" (from An Officer and a Gentleman)
"Someone Like You" (from French Kiss and Bridget Jones's Diary)
"Bright Side of the Road" (from Fever Pitch and Michael)
"Have I Told You Lately" (from One Fine Day)
"Real Real Gone" (from Donovan Quick)
"Irish Heartbeat" (with the Chieftains) (from The Matchmaker)
"Comfortably Numb" (Live with Roger Waters, The Band & The Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir - from The Wall Concert in Berlin, 1990) (from The Departed)

Track 5: Van Morrison vocal overdub 2006, original recording 1986.

 

[Dennie]

History - America's Greatest Hits -- CD

America

1975/1990 Warner Bros. Records

Amazon.com

This is about as treacly as pop can get, yet something about it endears and endures. Forget the Neil Youngish banality of "Horse with No Name." The best America songs feature a delicate yet intricate interplay of acoustic guitars that creates a tableau for sweeter-than-sweet vocalese. Just try not to sing along to "Ventura Highway" or "Sister Golden Hair." Try not to be suckered into sentimental reminiscence when listening to "I Need You" or the superb "Daisy Jane." And if your heart hardens when listening to the low-key lope of the "Muskrat Love," you must be cold-blooded. --Tod Nelson

Side 1

"A Horse With No Name" (Dewey Bunnell)
"I Need You" (Gerry Beckley)
"Sandman" (Bunnell)
"Ventura Highway" (Bunnell)
"Don't Cross The River" (Dan Peek)
"Only in Your Heart" (Beckley)

Side 2

"Muskrat Love" (Willis Alan Ramsey)
"Tin Man" (Bunnell)
"Lonely People" (Catherine Peek, Dan Peek)
"Sister Golden Hair" (Beckley)
"Daisy Jane" (Beckley)
"Woman Tonight" (Peek)

 

[Dennie]

The Spirit of 176 -- SACD

George Shearing and Hank Jones

1989/2003 Concord Records

George Shearing and Hank Jones have always been very well-rounded pianists fully capable of playing unaccompanied solos. Their unique matchup as a two-piano duo on this Concord release works surprisingly well for the two pianists manage to stay out of each other's way and the ensembles are not overcrowded. The pianists tackle colorful material including "Angel Eyes," and Thelonious Monk's "I Mean You," an original apiece, Mary Lou Williams's "Lonely Moments," "Star Eyes" and "Confirmation," and the results are swinging and tasteful. This somewhat obscure Concord CD is worth investigating. ~ Scott Yanow

1. Oh, Look at Me Now
2. Angel Eyes
3. I Mean You
4. You Don't Know What Love Is
5. To Hank Jones
6. Minor Contention
7. Ask Me Now
8. Triste
9. Take a Good Look
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. Young No More
12. Lonely Moments
13. Star Eyes
14. Confirmation



Personnel: George Shearing (piano); Hank Jones (piano).Recorded at A&R Studios, New York, New York in March 1988.

 

[Dennie]

Bringing It All Back Home -- CD

Bob Dylan

1965/2004 Columbia Records

"You sound like you're having a good old time," a purist Dylan fan is spotted telling the artist in the documentary Don't Look Back just after the release of this, his first (half-)electric album. He certainly does. Updating Chicago blues forms with hilarious, tough lyrics--in fact, all but stealing the meter of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" for "Subterranean Homesick Blues"--on one side, dropping some of his most devastating solo acoustic science ("It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "Mr. Tambourine Man") on the other, the first of Dylan's two 1965 long-players broke it right down with style, substance, and elegance. --Rickey Wright

Side one

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" – 2:21
"She Belongs to Me" – 2:47
"Maggie's Farm" – 3:54
"Love Minus Zero/No Limit" – 2:51
"Outlaw Blues" – 3:05
"On the Road Again"– 2:35
"Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"– 6:30

Side two

"Mr. Tambourine Man" – 5:30
"Gates of Eden" – 5:40
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" – 7:29
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – 4:12

 

[Dennie]

Days Like This -- CD

Van Morrison

1995 Polydor Records


Amazon.com

In an era when most old rock stars are left to recycle their greatest hits for megatours and MTV Unplugged, it's refreshing to know that Van Morrison still pours on all the originality and wit he had when he made Moondance. On Days Like This, Morrison continues his lifelong exploration of the human psyche, offering up highly entertaining and danceable (yes, danceable!) tunes about everything from love to manic depression. As always, Morrison's vocals rumble along through intelligent lyrics, plowing up a range of emotions almost too numerous to catalog. Needless to say, the sweet, soulful harmonies of Morrison's adroit backup singers and Pee Wee Ellis's fabulous horn arrangements serve as fabulous counterpoints to Van the Man's energetic and pointed performances. When all is said and done Morrison sums it up best in "Songwriter," a self-effacing ditty about the job he has done, and still does, so very well. --L.A. Smith

All songs by Morrison unless noted otherwise;

1. "Perfect Fit" – 4:33
2. "Russian Roulette" – 3:56
3. "Raincheck" – 5:53
4. "You Don't Know Me" - (Arnold, Walker) – 4:32
5. "No Religion" – 5:14
6. "Underlying Depression" – 4:35
7. "Songwriter" – 2:50
8. "Days Like This" – 3:13
9. "I'll Never Be Free" - (Benjamin, Weiss) – 3:37
10. "Melancholia" – 3:56
11. "Ancient Highway" – 8:53
12. "In the Afternoon" – 6:21

 

[PaulyT]

Latest from the New Pornographers. Pretty good! Somewhat lighter mood than their previous album (Together), with even a little hint of techno-pop - but fortunately only a little. I wish Neko featured a little more prominently... Still, a very good album with some catchy tunes. Good SQ. LOTS of great vocal harmonies!

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music...

Endless Summer -- CD

The Beach Boys

1974/1990 Capitol Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Brian Wilson's brilliance manifested itself in the euphoric, cheerfully square, sun-and-fun stuff heard here early on, before it got darker and more complicated. Endless Summer runs from the beginning of the Boys' pinstriped career to 1965, right before the melancholy of Pet Sounds, but also includes the inescapable "Good Vibrations." You can hear a few hints of adolescent sadness and fear--"Help Me, Rhonda" is essentially a kids' sing-along about a wrenching emotional rebound, and the shadow of death is hiding somewhere in "Don't Worry, Baby"--but Wilson is mostly concerned with the cars, waves, and girls that made up the Boys' public image, and his ingenious arrangements (coupled with the group's inimitable harmonies) make everything go down as smoothly as lemonade. --Douglas Wolk

All songs by Brian Wilson/Mike Love, except where noted.

Side 1

"Surfin' Safari" – 2:05
"Surfer Girl" (Brian Wilson) – 2:26
"Catch a Wave" – 2:07
"The Warmth of the Sun" – 2:51
"Surfin' USA" (Chuck Berry/Brian Wilson) – 2:27

Side 2

"Be True to Your School" (Album Version) – 2:07
"Little Deuce Coupe" (Brian Wilson/Roger Christian) – 1:38
"In My Room" (Brian Wilson/Gary Usher) – 2:11
"Shut Down" (Brian Wilson/Roger Christian) – 1:49
"Fun, Fun, Fun" (Album Version) – 2:16

Side 3

"I Get Around" – 2:12
"Girls on the Beach" – 2:24
"Wendy" – 2:16
"Let Him Run Wild" – 2:20
"Don't Worry Baby" (Brian Wilson/Roger Christian) – 2:47

Side 4

"California Girls" – 2:38
"Girl Don't Tell Me" – 2:19
"Help Me, Rhonda" – 3:08 Today! version originally entitled "Help Me, Ronda," with false endings, retitled as "Help Me, Rhonda"
"You're So Good to Me" – 2:14
"All Summer Long" – 2:06

Bonus CD track

"Good Vibrations", was added to the end of Endless Summer in the 1980s for its CD edition.

 

[topper]

"Butt Naked Free" by Guy Davis

1. Talin' 'bout Wings 'n Brew
2. Waiting On The Cards To Fall
3. Let Me Stay Awhile
4. Writing Paper Blues
5. Sometimes I Wish...
6. High Flying Rocket
7. Never Met No Woman Treats Me Like You Do
8. Sugarbelle Blue
9. Meet Me Where The River Turns
10. My Rambling Ways
11. Come On Sally Hitch A Ride
12. Ain't No Bluesman
13. The Place Where I Come From (butt Naked Free)
14. Raining In My Soul

 

[Dennie]

Cool and Steady and Easy -- CD

Brooklyn Funk Essentials

1995 Groovetown/RCA Records

Take the L train to your nearest record store!
By Peter R. Fischer on April 28, 2000
Format: Audio CD
This is one funky CD. Its funky but not too hip-hoppy, not too acid jazzy either. A solid rythm section holds the bottom end while horns and/or vocals literally bounce and float over the top.
Although this album in very New York (and these guys play live here all the time) anyone who likes jazz infused funk will be into this. Its not as light as the James Taylor Quartet and not as poppy or "British" as the Brand New Heavies, although in many ways, this disc is similar to both of them.
The Brooklyn Funk Essentials are more funky and jazzy with some reggae and world beats thrown in. This is outstanding funk with a spiritual, "feel good" influence. Check out tunes like "The Creator Has a Master Plan" and "Take the L Train." You won't be disappointed.

Track Listing
1. Take the L Train (To Brooklyn)
2. The Creator Has a Master Plan
3. The Revolution Was Postponed Because of Rain
4. Bob Hop
5. Brooklyn Recycles
6. Mizz Bed-Stuy
7. A Headnaddas Journey to the Planet Adidi-Skizm
8. Big Apple Boogaloo
9. Blow Your Brains Out
10. Stickman Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge
11. Dilly Dally
12. Take the L Train (To 8th Avenue)

Brooklyn Funk Essentials: Papa Dee, David Allen (vocals); Everton Sylvester (spoken vocals); Lati Kronlund (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drum programming, samples); Paul Shapiro (vocals, flute, saxophone); Yancy Drew (vocals, drums, percussion); E.J. Rodriguez (vocals, congas); Bassy Bob Brockmann (trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards); Joshua Roseman (trombone); DJ Jazzy Nice (samples).Additional personnel: Joi Cardwell, GTO, Austin, Andrea Davis, Paulette Bell, Dasez, Black, Craig, Sheri, Xan Abeyratne (vocals); Michigan & Smiley, Sha-Key (spoken vocals); Skip McDonald, Mattias Torell, Kennan Keating (guitar); Maceo Parker (saxophone); Barbara Snow (flugelhorn); Lenny Pickett & The Tower Of Power Horns (brass); Merv De Peyer (piano); Kristoffer Wallman (synthesizer); Bill Ware III (vibraphone); Doug Wimbish (bass); Keith Le Blanc (drums); Bashiri Johnson (congas, timbales); Arthur Baker (samples)

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music...

The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield -- CD

Curtis Mayfield

1997 Rhino Records

Timeless and perfect., June 29, 2002
By Gracejoy "gracejoy7" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Very Best of (Curtis Mayfield) (Audio CD)

Curtis Mayfield was a musical genius and this CD is a testament to his amazing ability to create powerful, engaging, funky, soulful, moving music. Mayfield is clearly the master of funk and his falsetto vocals are the baddest of bad. I have too many favorite tracks to pick just one, but I will say that "Freddie's Dead" and "Kung Fu" are alone worth the price of this CD. Most of the songs address some kind of moral or social issue and the lyrics are genuinely thought-provoking, not cliched. Some of the songs beg you to get up and dance, while others are meant for closing your eyes and just soaking it in. All of it is GREAT.

This is one of my favorite CDs of all time. If you are even remotely curious about Curtis Mayfield or funk music in general, you have to have this CD. It doesn't get any better than this.

“(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go”
“The Makings of You”
“Move on Up”
“Get Down”
“We Got to Have Peace”
“Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly)”
“Superfly”
“Pusherman”
“Future Shock”
“Can't Say Nothin'”
“Kung Fu”
“So In Love”
“Only You Babe”
“Do Do Wap is Strong in Here”
“Between You Baby and Me”
“Do Be Down”

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Chapter Two -- CD

Roberta Flack

1970/1992 Atlantic Records

One of the 5 Greatest Albums of All Time, Period., May 28, 2003
By "jeremiah256"

I was a child when this album came out and it has haunted me ever since. Turn the lights out, light a fire in the fireplace, select your favorite bottle of wine, kick the kids out, curl up on the couch with your loved one, put this album on and enjoy. Hell, this albums so good you don't need anyone. Kick everyone out. "Reverend Lee", with good reason, is the classic of this album. You'll feel Roberta's warm breath on your neck as she sings of sin and lust. It'll take you back in time to that someone whom you couldn't resist, even though you knew better. Other favorites are "Do What You Gotta Do", "Gone Away", and "Until It's Time For You To Go". Those three songs along with "Just Like A Woman" are beautiful in their meaning and the mood they create. "Business Goes On As Usual" is placed last. It's a haunting anti-war song and you'd think it wouldn't fit in with the other songs of love and regret but it does. That's because it too is about love and the lose of that loved one. My personal favorite is "Let It Be Me". Like "Impossible Dream", Roberta's voice, the tempo, what I believe is a French Horn in the background, all combine to make you realize how beautiful songs can be, even songs you've heard a hundred times, when given to a vocal talent such as Roberta Flack. After you've recharged your soul with this album, let the spouce and kids back in and give them a hug.

1. "Reverend Lee" (Gene McDaniels) 4:31
2. "Do What You Gotta Do" (Jimmy Webb) 4:09
3. "Just Like a Woman" (Bob Dylan) 6:14
4. "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Becaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë) 5:00
5. "Gone Away" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, Curtis Mayfield) 5:16
6. "Until It's Time for You to Go" (Buffy Sainte-Marie) 4:57
7. "The Impossible Dream" (Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh) 4:42
8. "Business Goes on as Usual" (Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff) 3:30

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music...

Nobody Left To Crown -- CD

Richie Havens

2008 Verve Forcast

Over 40 years after the release of his debut album, 1967's MIXED BAG, folk-rock master Richie Havens returns to his original label, Verve Records, for 2008's NOBODY LEFT TO CROWN. Although Havens's public image will forever be frozen as the impassioned singer and percussive guitarist whose improvised set at Woodstock made him a national star, he has not stopped performing or recording during the intervening decades. Along with several strong original songs, including the pointedly political "Hurricane Waters" and the title track, Havens transforms three well-known songs into his unique style: Jackson Browne's "Lives in the Balance," Peter, Paul and Mary's "The Great Mandala," and most surprisingly yet most effectively, the Who's powerhouse protest anthem "Won't Get Fooled Again."

1. Key, The
2. Say It Isn't So
3. Won't Get Fooled Again
4. Standing on the Water
5. Hurricane Waters
6. If I
7. Nobody Left to Crown
8. (Can't You Hear) Zeus's Anger Roar
9. Lives in the Balance
10. We All Know Now
11. Fates
12. Great Mandala, The (The Wheel of Life)
13. One More Day

 

[Dennie]

Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine -- Remastered 2 CD Set

The Doors

1972/2014 Elektra Records

A very interesting double LP retrospective two years after Jim Morrison's version of the Doors had officially closed. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine contained the first album release of two B-sides, Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," sung by Ray Manzarek, originally on the flip side of the 1971 45 "Love Her Madly," and the beautiful "Who Scared You," "Wishful Sinful"'s flip with Jim Morrison on vocals from a session in 1969. Both are worthwhile additions not found on their first "greatest hits" collection, 13. This compilation is a strange amalgam of their music, the LP title taken from a line in the song "The End," which concludes side two. Five of the 22 songs are from the L.A. Woman sessions, including the title track of that album and the full length "Riders on the Storm," both clocking in at seven-plus minutes. With "The End" and "When the Music's Over" at 11:35 and 11:00 respectively, that's 38 minutes and 38 seconds between four titles, more than a third of the 99-plus minutes of music on this collection. Nothing from Absolutely Live is included, and surprisingly, the classic "Waiting for the Sun" is not here, though that Morrison Hotel number would fit the mood perfectly. "Love Street," the flip of "Hello I Love You," is here, but pertinent singles like "Wishful Sinful" or "Do It" and its flip, "Runnin' Blue," from The Soft Parade, are all missing in action. The cover art pastiche by Bill Hoffman is worth the price of admission if you already have all this material, while the inside gatefold picture looks like an outtake from the first album. Bruce Harris' liner notes are truly the '60s merging with the '70s; he calls Jim Morrison "merely the index of our possibilities" and states that Morrison didn't want to be an idol "because he believed all idols were hollow." The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn't tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed's incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music are more enjoyable than the disc. Harris seems to actually believe what he pontificates. But the music is awesome, so put it on and read the Metal Machine Music scribblings instead. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is a work of art in the first order, the way the Beatles #1 album is wonderfully redundant, and it should see the light of day again. This time they could add "Tree Trunk," the flip of the "Get Up and Dance" 45 RPM from 1972's Full Circle album. ~ Joe Viglione

Disc: 1

1. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
2. Strange Days ( Lp Version )
3. Shaman's Blues ( Lp Version )
4. Love Street ( Lp Version )
5. Peace Frog/Blue Sunday
6. The Wasp ( Texas Radio And The Big Beat ) ( Lp Version )
7. End Of The Night ( Lp Version )
8. Love Her Madly ( Lp Version )
9. Spanish Caravan ( Lp Version )
10. Ship Of Fools ( Lp Version )
11. The Spy ( Lp Version )
12. The End ( Lp Version )

Disc: 2
1. Take It As It Comes ( Lp Version )
2. Running Blue
3. L.A. Woman ( Lp Version )
4. Five To One ( Lp Version )
5. Who Scared You
6. (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further
7. Riders On The Storm
8. Maggie Mcgill
9. Horse Latitudes ( Lp Version )
10. When The Music's Over ( Lp Version )

 

[Dennie]

Hits/Greatest & Others -- CD

Joan Baez

1973/1986 Vanguard Records

Hits: Greatest and Others was a 1973 compilation Vanguard put together at the end of Joan Baez' association with their label. In addition to her hit cover of The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", songs by the Beatles and Kris Kristofferson were also included. Unlike previous compilations, this one skipped over most of Baez' earlier traditional material almost entirely, in favor of her more recent singer-songwriter material and covers.

1. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson)
2. "Dangling Conversation" (Paul Simon)
3. "Help Me Make It Through The Night" (Kris Kristofferson)
4. "Blessed Are..." (Joan Baez)
5. "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
6. "Let It Be" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
7. "There But For Fortune" (Phil Ochs)
8. "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Jesse Winchester)
9. "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" (Bob Dylan)
10. "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" (Bob Dylan)
11. "Heaven Help Us All" (Roger Miller)

 

[Dennie]

Lyle Lovett -- CD

Lyle Lovett

1986 Curb/MCA Records

The mid-1980s were a dire period for country music. Rampant commercialism and watered-down country-pop had taken over Nashville, and honest country singers with substantive songs were thin on the ground. Fortunately, a new generation of progressive country artists emerged, including Dwight Yoakam, Rodney Crowell, and Lyle Lovett, the latter being the quirkiest and most artful of the crop. With his suit, pompadour, and lantern-jawed mug, Lovett looked like nothing country had seen before. His roots were in the Texas singer/songwriter school of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, et al, but he bore a pronounced streak of wry wit and razor-sharp irony.Though he would soon expand musically, Lovett stayed within the conventions of the country template on his '86 debut album, but judiciously tweaked the format to suit his intentions. To wit, "God Will" sounds like a classic country cheating ballad until the chorus delivers a powerful lyrical twist. "The Waltzing Fool" fits into the aforementioned Clark/Van Zandt folk-country style, but with a unique poetic sensibility informing its imagery. "An Acceptable Level of Ecstacy (The Wedding Song)" is full of both the jazziness and humor upon which Lovett would expand in subsequent recordings, pointing the way to the future of both his own career and forward-looking country music.

Track Listing
1. Cowboy Man
2. God Will
3. Farther Down the Line
4. This Old Porch
5. Why I Don't Know
6. If I Were the Man You Wanted
7. You Can't Resist It
8. The Waltzing Fool
9. An (The Wedding Song) Acceptable Level of Ecstasy
10. Closing Time

Personnel: Lyle Lovett (vocals, acoustic guitar); Mac McAnally (acoustic guitar); Ray Herndon, Billy Williams, Vince Gill, Jon Goin (electric guitar); Tom Mortensen (steel guitar); Glen Duncan (fiddle); Steve Marsh (saxophone); Matt Rollings (piano); Mark Prentice (organ); John Jarvis (synthesizer); Matthew McKenzie, Emory Gordy, Jr. (bass); Jeff Boree, Bob Warren (drums); James Gilmer (percussion); J. David Sloan, Rosanne Cash, Francine Reed (background vocals).