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Dennie
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Today's work truck music...
Workingman's Dead -- CD
Grateful Dead
1970/1990 Warner Bros. Records
The Grateful Dead were already established as paragons of the free-form, improvisational San Francisco psychedelic sound when they abruptly shifted gears for the acoustic Workingman's Dead, a lovely exploration of American roots music illuminating the group's country, blues, and folk influences. The lilting "Uncle John's Band," their first radio hit, opens the record and perfectly summarizes its subtle, spare beauty; complete with a new focus on more concise songs and tighter arrangements, the approach works brilliantly. Despite its sharp contrast to the epic live space jams on which the group's legend primarily rests, Workingman's Dead nonetheless spotlights the Dead at their most engaging, stripped of all excess to reveal the true essence of their craft.
1. Uncle John's Band
2. High Time
3. Dire Wolf
4. New Speedway Boogie
5. Cumberland Blues
6. Black Peter
7. Easy Wind
8. Casey Jones
Workingman's Dead -- CD
Grateful Dead
1970/1990 Warner Bros. Records
The Grateful Dead were already established as paragons of the free-form, improvisational San Francisco psychedelic sound when they abruptly shifted gears for the acoustic Workingman's Dead, a lovely exploration of American roots music illuminating the group's country, blues, and folk influences. The lilting "Uncle John's Band," their first radio hit, opens the record and perfectly summarizes its subtle, spare beauty; complete with a new focus on more concise songs and tighter arrangements, the approach works brilliantly. Despite its sharp contrast to the epic live space jams on which the group's legend primarily rests, Workingman's Dead nonetheless spotlights the Dead at their most engaging, stripped of all excess to reveal the true essence of their craft.
1. Uncle John's Band
2. High Time
3. Dire Wolf
4. New Speedway Boogie
5. Cumberland Blues
6. Black Peter
7. Easy Wind
8. Casey Jones
In 5.1 Surround, Bluray Audio. :music-rockout:
Let's hear it for Canadians that can screech in tune! :banana-dance: :banana-dance: :happy-smileygiantred:
One disappointment: Each song displays a still pic with the song's title, and the first verse's lyrics, but then it doesn't change or scroll to additional verses or the chorus. The audio is clear and crisp though, Bravo! :handgestures-thumbup:
The Man In The Brown Shorts™ brought me this tonight too, more fine in-tune Canuck screeching! :banana-rock:
The Good:
Not really much screeching here actually, Geddy brought his voice down a couple octaves by this time. Nice.
Nice balance of guitar work and synths/pad/samplers.
New World Man!!! :music-rockout:
The Bad:
Still one pic, one verse on the video per song, as A Farewell to the Kinks above.
The sound is a bit harsher, less clean. It's still very good, but A Deepwell for Kings above I might just add to the Stellar Recordings thread, despite some obvious bass compression in a couple spots.
A General Observation ("They couldn't hit a BARN from this dist...", General Splattre, 1942):
Many companies keep trying to resell "High Rez" audio recorded on 24/96 or higher digital, but from 40, 50, even 60-year old analog tape masters. I've learned to ferret out most of the chaff, BUT remix anything into 5.1 Surround and I'm tempted. I certainly won't replace my CD collection with these 5.1's to the extent that I did my vinyl with CDs, but the record industry (whatever that means now) will probably milk me a bit more. I didn't have either of these two Rush albums so I didn't mind buying these so much, but probably won't buy more 5.1-mixed Rush except for Power Windows (a personal favorite) when and if it comes out.
Dennie
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Today's work truck music...
Hard Rain -- CD
Bob Dylan
1976 Columbia Records
Very underrated October 4, 2003
By Docendo Discimus
Format:Audio CD
If you sometimes find yourself shouting "Judas" at the radio when Bob Dylan comes on playing something band-backed, this record is probably not your thing.
Me, I love it. It's too short by far, but Dylan and the Rolling Thunder band rock like never before or since. In my opinion, the intense "Hard Rain" is just as great as the fabled "Live 1966" (the so-called Royal Albert Hall concert from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester).
Bob Dylan and his band play some of the hardest, rawest and most ragged rock n' roll music of his entire career - just listen to him tearing through a spiced-up "Maggie's Farm" or doing a melodic folk-rock interpretation of "One Too Many Mornings".
But the highlight of "Hard Rain" has to be the closing ten-minute rendition of the venomous "Idiot Wind". Dylan sneers and shouts his way through a magnificent version of one of his most memorable songs - that one cut alone is worth the price of admission. Powerful stuff!
All songs by Bob Dylan, except where noted.
"Maggie's Farm"– 5:23
"One Too Many Mornings"– 3:47
"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"– 6:01
"Oh, Sister" (Dylan, Jacques Levy)– 5:08
"Lay Lady Lay"– 4:47
"Shelter from the Storm"– 5:29
"You're a Big Girl Now"– 7:01
"I Threw It All Away"– 3:18
"Idiot Wind"– 10:21
Hard Rain -- CD
Bob Dylan
1976 Columbia Records
Very underrated October 4, 2003
By Docendo Discimus
Format:Audio CD
If you sometimes find yourself shouting "Judas" at the radio when Bob Dylan comes on playing something band-backed, this record is probably not your thing.
Me, I love it. It's too short by far, but Dylan and the Rolling Thunder band rock like never before or since. In my opinion, the intense "Hard Rain" is just as great as the fabled "Live 1966" (the so-called Royal Albert Hall concert from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester).
Bob Dylan and his band play some of the hardest, rawest and most ragged rock n' roll music of his entire career - just listen to him tearing through a spiced-up "Maggie's Farm" or doing a melodic folk-rock interpretation of "One Too Many Mornings".
But the highlight of "Hard Rain" has to be the closing ten-minute rendition of the venomous "Idiot Wind". Dylan sneers and shouts his way through a magnificent version of one of his most memorable songs - that one cut alone is worth the price of admission. Powerful stuff!
All songs by Bob Dylan, except where noted.
"Maggie's Farm"– 5:23
"One Too Many Mornings"– 3:47
"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"– 6:01
"Oh, Sister" (Dylan, Jacques Levy)– 5:08
"Lay Lady Lay"– 4:47
"Shelter from the Storm"– 5:29
"You're a Big Girl Now"– 7:01
"I Threw It All Away"– 3:18
"Idiot Wind"– 10:21
Dennie
Well-Known Member
New Moon Daughter -- CD
Cassandra Wilson
1996 Blue Note Records
Amazon.com essential recording
Her luscious alto has the depth and texture of a great tenor saxophonist, but Cassandra Wilson's defining asset is a postmodern song sense that enables her to surf through Son House, Neil Young, Johnny Mercer, Billie Holiday, and (gasp!) the Monkees in pursuit of strong songs that can provide that instrument with a canvas. Her second Blue Note album extends Wilson's seductive pilgrimage beyond the conventions of jazz repertoire and accompaniment, yet it's her instincts as a jazz singer that inform these brilliant readings. The settings again step away from traditional small group jazz (for starters, there's no piano) to evoke the emotional core of these songs. Anyone who can turn the Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville" into a slow-burning erotic vignette deserves your attention. --Sam Sutherland
"Strange Fruit" (Lewis Allan) — 5:33
"Love Is Blindness" (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Jr.) — 4:53
"Solomon Sang" (Cassandra Wilson) — 5:56
"Death Letter" (Son House) — 4:12
"Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) — 4:08
"Find Him" (Wilson) — 4:37
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams) — 4:50
"Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) — 5:15
"Until" (Wilson) — 6:29
"A Little Warm Death" (Wilson) — 5:43
"Memphis" (Wilson) — 5:04
"Harvest Moon" (Neil Young) — 5:01
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Today's work truck music...
Classics Volume 8 -- CD
Joan Baez
1990 A&M Records
Album notesThis 1987 best-of compiles the work from A&M efforts that marked a stylistic change from her Vanguard years, yet a pretty consistent level of success. Relying on the work of other artists seemed to be more hit and miss during the A&M era. In Baez's interpretations of songs like Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate" and "Forever Young" and John Lennon's "Imagine," her pitch-perfect tone might strike some as unemotional, but her singing is engrossing nonetheless. Not surprisingly, Baez sounds the best here with the tracks that deviate from weighty issues. "Gracias a la Vida" (sung in Spanish) and the haunting "Di Da" (with Joni Mitchell) have her giving off more charm and emotion than usual. "Children and All That Jazz," from her best-selling 1975 album Diamonds & Rust, has a gorgeous, heavily produced '70s L.A. pop/rock style that suited her voice. Unlike many greatest-hit sets, Classics, Vol. 8 also offers strong live performances, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and the CD closing "Amazing Grace." Classics, Vol. 8 has the strength of a regular release effort and more than captures the time frame and the artist it's spotlighting. ~ Jason Elias
Track listing
1. Diamonds and Rust
2. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
3. Simple Twist of Fate
4. Imagine
5. In the Quiet Morning
6. Best of Friends
7. Forever Young
8. Prison Trilogy
9. Jesse
10. Children and All That Jazz
11. Please Come to Boston
12. Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
13. Gracias a la Vida
14. Sweeter For Me
15. Love Song to a Stranger
16. Amazing Grace
Classics Volume 8 -- CD
Joan Baez
1990 A&M Records
Album notesThis 1987 best-of compiles the work from A&M efforts that marked a stylistic change from her Vanguard years, yet a pretty consistent level of success. Relying on the work of other artists seemed to be more hit and miss during the A&M era. In Baez's interpretations of songs like Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate" and "Forever Young" and John Lennon's "Imagine," her pitch-perfect tone might strike some as unemotional, but her singing is engrossing nonetheless. Not surprisingly, Baez sounds the best here with the tracks that deviate from weighty issues. "Gracias a la Vida" (sung in Spanish) and the haunting "Di Da" (with Joni Mitchell) have her giving off more charm and emotion than usual. "Children and All That Jazz," from her best-selling 1975 album Diamonds & Rust, has a gorgeous, heavily produced '70s L.A. pop/rock style that suited her voice. Unlike many greatest-hit sets, Classics, Vol. 8 also offers strong live performances, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and the CD closing "Amazing Grace." Classics, Vol. 8 has the strength of a regular release effort and more than captures the time frame and the artist it's spotlighting. ~ Jason Elias
Track listing
1. Diamonds and Rust
2. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
3. Simple Twist of Fate
4. Imagine
5. In the Quiet Morning
6. Best of Friends
7. Forever Young
8. Prison Trilogy
9. Jesse
10. Children and All That Jazz
11. Please Come to Boston
12. Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
13. Gracias a la Vida
14. Sweeter For Me
15. Love Song to a Stranger
16. Amazing Grace
Botch said:
In 5.1 Surround, Bluray Audio. :music-rockout:
Let's hear it for Canadians that can screech in tune! :banana-dance: :banana-dance: :happy-smileygiantred:
One disappointment: Each song displays a still pic with the song's title, and the first verse's lyrics, but then it doesn't change or scroll to additional verses or the chorus. The audio is clear and crisp though, Bravo! :handgestures-thumbup:
This is one of my many Favorite Rush Albums.................I guess this is worth a double dip?
Adele 25
I have been hearing alot about this and heard a couple tracks on the radio. So just ordered the CD and in less than five minutes it was available of my amazon Prime Music library so am listening on my computer right now.
For a guy that used to pride himself on keeping up on current music my 'life situation" over the last couple years has made me a babe in the woods when it comes to current music.
Enjoying this.
I have been hearing alot about this and heard a couple tracks on the radio. So just ordered the CD and in less than five minutes it was available of my amazon Prime Music library so am listening on my computer right now.
For a guy that used to pride himself on keeping up on current music my 'life situation" over the last couple years has made me a babe in the woods when it comes to current music.
Enjoying this.
^ I listened to this first in the Den, then in the Theater with the awesome sub's (which are truely needed on a few tunes) and the C1's.............2 different experiances in 2 totally different environments.............
What a voice!
:bow-blue: :bow-blue:
What a voice!
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Dennie
Well-Known Member
Night Train -- Remastered CD
The Oscar Peterson Trio
1963/1997 Verve Master Edition
Outstanding and essential jazz piano, July 12, 2002
By
Jon Warshawsky "Sinatra Guru"
Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Night Train (Audio CD)
Night Train is one of the best jazz piano albums I have yet to hear. Oscar Peterson is spellbinding -- both at breakneck and leisurely speeds -- and the ensemble is tight. Favorites here include Ellington's C-Jam Blues (only two notes!), The Honeydripper, Moten Swing, a definitive Band Call and of course a memorable rendition of the title track. I am a huge fan of Dave Brubeck, but one ride on the Night Train and it's obvious Peterson was something special. If you like exciting jazz piano -- this isn't background music -- Night Train is essential.
The bonus tracks? I don't like to complain about getting something for nothing, but it would not be hard to argue that the original album is a classic that needed no embellishment. Even with lesser songs, Peterson turns in a convincing performance and these pass muster. 'Now's the Time' is an amazing bit of keyboard athleticism -- a performance more worthy than the tune. 'This Could Be the Start of Something' is similarly a superior performance of a not-so-superior number.
The jury is still out on Verve's cardboard CD jackets. It looks nice but is destined to fall apart long before the CD fails. Perhaps Verve thought they were doing us a favor. Still a five-star album, but packaging is (a small) part of the equation.
Track Listing
1. Night Train
2. C-Jam Blues
3. Georgia on My Mind
4. Bags' Groove
5. Moten Swing
6. Easy Does It
7. The Honeydripper
8. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
9. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
10. Band Call
11. Hymn to Freedom
12. Night Train - (previously unreleased)
13. Volare - (previously unreleased)
14. My Heart Belongs to Daddy - (previously unreleased)
15. Moten Swing - (previously unreleased rehearsal take)
16. Now's the Time - (previously unreleased)
17. This Could Be the Start of Something - (previously unreleased)
Oscar Peterson Trio: Oscar Peterson (piano); Ray Brown (bass); Ed Thigpen (drums).Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California on December 16, 1962.