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[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Straight Shooter -- CD

Bad Company

1974/1994 Atlantic Records

Supergroup hits its stride, November 7, 2001
By Mons "Mons" (Norrpan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Straight Shooter (Audio CD)

Released in 1974, Straightshooter is regarded by many as being Bad Company's strongest album. It has the bluesy feel of its predecessor (Bad Co) but has the band turning their amps up 11 and rocking out the strongest set of songs of the band's career. Do not forget that Bad Co was a supergroup with 2 guys out of Free (Rodgers and Kirke), the bass player from King Crimson (Boz Burrell) and Mott the Hoople's guitarist (Mick Ralphs). They should have been huge, of course, but suffered from having to play second fiddle to Swan Song stablemates Led Zeppelin. The songs were great, their sound: a sort of supercharged, sexy blues-rock without the pretention of Led Zep. What let them down perhaps was their lyrics, some of which make Spinal Tap look like Leonard Cohen, but if you can take that - and I can - this album is a great listen from beginning to end. Bad Company were also one of the few hard rock bands that wrote great ballads (Anna), though it was Straightshooter's high-octane rockers like Good Lovin' Gone Bad, Feel Like Making Love and Shooting Star that helped secure them a place in rock history. Bad Company were a good, tight band, but I would recommend anyone to listen to them purely to hear Paul Rodgers' masterful rock vocals. New to Bad Company? Get this one first, and then Bad Co.
Side one

1. "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" (Mick Ralphs) – 3:35
2. "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Paul Rodgers, Ralphs) – 5:12
3. "Weep No More" (Simon Kirke) – 3:59
4. "Shooting Star" (Rodgers) – 6:16

Side two

1. "Deal With the Preacher" (Rodgers, Ralphs) – 5:01
2. "Wild Fire Woman" (Rodgers, Ralphs) – 4:32
3. "Anna" (Kirke) – 3:41 [6]
4. "Call on Me" (Rodgers) – 6:03

LINKY ----> http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Shoo...2JSH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297874079&sr=1-1

 

[heeman]

Today's work truck music....

So here's a blast from the past, I played the shit out of this album when it came out!! :music-rockout:

BTW - Did Paul Rogers has a face-lift or what?? Have you seen him lately?? Almost looks like Chuck Norris :scared-yipes:

 

[topper]

Bad Company . . . .

some good ol' beer drinkin' jams . bscene-drinkingcheers:

love their self-titled album! ---- great band :handgestures-thumbup:

:text-nocomment:

 

[Dennie]

Tales From The Acoustic Planet -- CD

Bela Fleck

1995 Warner Bros. Records

Amazon.com

Bela Fleck has completely transcended any and all expectations we have for the banjo. Having spent the better part of five previous years exploring a variety of formal and improvised designs with his virtuoso ensemble, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, this banjo innovator chose to celebrate a variety of musical friends and influences on this homey, elegant, immaculately recorded aural novella--one that clearly links him to such progressive jazz/fusion forebears as Return to Forever and Oregon (not to mention Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys). While a manic hoe-down like "Cheeseballs in Cowtown" illustrates his command of post-modern bluegrass, his freeform duet "Bicyclops" (with mentor Chick Corea) is indicative of this great musician's astonishing technical and emotional range. Elsewhere tunes such as "Up and Running," "The Great Circle Route," and "System Seven" seem to reconcile his complex rhythmic inclinations with stately folkish themes, mixing traditional bluegrass instrumentation with the likes of electric bass, drums, piano, and oboe. And on extended forms such as "Circus of Regrets" and "Jayme Lynn," Fleck showcases his ever-expanding breadth and range as a modern composer. --Chip Stern

All tracks written by Béla Fleck except where noted.

1. Up and Running
2. First Light
3. The Great Circle Route
4. Circus of Regrets
5. Three Bridges Home
6. The Landing
7. Arkansas Traveller (trad.)
8. Backwoods Galaxy
9. In Your Eyes
10. System Seven
11. Cheeseballs in Cowtown
12. Bicyclops
13. Jayme Lynn
14. For Sascha


* Béla Fleck - banjo
* Tony Rice - guitar
* Sam Bush - mandolin
* Stuart Duncan - fiddle
* Edgar Meyer - bass, piano
* Kenny Malone - drums
* Paul McCandless - woodwinds
* Jerry Douglas - Dobro, guitar
* Future Man - percussion, drums, woodwind
* Victor Wooten - bass
* Chick Corea - piano

LINKY ---> http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Acousti...2MWU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297909347&sr=1-1

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

So here's a blast from the past, I played the shit out of this album when it came out!! :music-rockout:

BTW - Did Paul Rogers has a face-lift or what?? Have you seen him lately?? Almost looks like Chuck Norris :scared-yipes:

Yeah, I still play the heck out of it! :handgestures-thumbup:

Maybe Brian May made him get a face lift, if he was going to fill in for Freddy! :teasing-tease:


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan -- CD

Bob Dylan

1963/1990 Columbia Records

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records. Whereas his debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin' initiated the process of writing contemporary words to traditional melodies. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are original compositions by Dylan. The album kicks off with "Blowin' in the Wind", which would become one of the anthems of the 1960s, and an international hit for folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary soon after the release of Freewheelin'. The album featured several other songs which came to be regarded as amongst Dylan's best compositions and classics of the 1960s folk scene: "Girl from the North Country", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".

Dylan's lyrics embraced stories ripped from the headlines about civil rights and he articulated anxieties about the fear of nuclear warfare. Balancing this political material were love songs, sometimes bitter and accusatory, and material that features surreal humor. Freewheelin' showcased Dylan's songwriting talent for the first time, propelling him to national and international fame. The success of the album and Dylan's subsequent recognition led to his being named as "Spokesman of a Generation", a label Dylan came to resent.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan reached number 22 in the US (eventually going platinum), and later became a number one hit in the UK in 1964. In 2003, the album was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2002, Freewheelin' was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.


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

LINKY ----> http://www.amazon.com/Freewheelin-B...=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297913205&sr=1-2

 

[Dennie]

Failer CD

Kathleen Edwards

2003 Zoe Records

Amazon.com

This young Canadian singer-songwriter delivers a sucker punch of an American debut. While it may take a few listens for some of the material to sink in, Kathleen Edwards plainly has attitude to burn and a killer band to back it up. As a rootsy artist who sings about sexual attraction and betrayal with a languid breathiness, she inevitably has been tagged a younger Lucinda Williams, but it would make as much sense to describe her as an alt-country Ani DiFranco or a female Ryan Adams. What's most powerful in her music, however, seems to come from a deeper, more personal place than the study of other artists: from the violent climax of "Six O' Clock News" to the bitter resignation of "Hockey Skates" to the buoyantly rocking resilience of "12 Bellevue" to the offhand sensuality of "Westby." Plainly, she's unconcerned with ruffling feathers, titling one number "One More Song the Radio Won't Like" and elsewhere asking the musical question "Do you think your boys' club will crumble just because of a loudmouth girl?" --Don McLeese

1. "Six O'Clock News" – 4:34
2. "One More Song the Radio Won't Like" – 4:23
3. "Hockey Skates" – 4:26
4. "The Lone Wolf" – 4:52
5. "12 Bellevue" – 3:41
6. "Mercury" – 3:29
7. "Westby" – 2:25
8. "Maria" – 3:43
9. "National Steel" – 4:50
10. "Sweet Lil' Duck" – 4:28

LINKY ----> http://www.amazon.com/Failer-Kathleen-Edwards/dp/B00007LV7B/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297914172&sr=1-1

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening is one of my favorites....... :text-bravo:

Famous Blue Raincoat - The Songs of Leonard Cohen -- CD

Jennifer Warnes

1987 Cypress Records (Import Germany)

One of the best U.S. pop albums of the last 20 years!, January 4, 2002
By Invisiboy2001 "invisiboy2001" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Famous Blue Raincoat (Audio CD)

Jennifer Warnes is a singer's singer, and Leonard Cohen is a songwriter's songwriter. They are each at the front of their game...and are brilliant in unique, almost tangible ways. I am not certain whose idea this CD was, but what a wondrous pairing! Warnes adds new levels to each of the eight excellent Cohen songs she interprets here...and does a remarkable job on her songwriting collaboration with Cohen, "Song of Bernadette." Americans barely noticed this superb collection; it was overshadowed by Warnes' #1 song "The Time Of My Life" of the same year. However, I don't believe anyone can say he or she has heard Jennifer Warnes without hearing this recording first! Warnes' immaculate interepretation of "Famous Blue Raincoat" blows Tori Amos' well-known version out of the water! Just as exquisite are "Bird On A Wire," "First We Take Manhattan" and "Ain't No Cure For Love." Warnes and her co-producer, C. Roscoe Beck, handpicked a batch of amazing musicians for this 1987 CD, including a Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar performance that is mind-blowing! Snatch this CD up and listen to it like there is no tomorrow...it's brilliant!

All songs written by Leonard Cohen except where noted.

1. "First We Take Manhattan" – 3:47
2. "Bird on a Wire" – 4:42
3. "Famous Blue Raincoat" – 5:33
4. "Joan of Arc" – 7:57
5. "Ain't No Cure for Love" – 3:21
6. "Coming Back to You" – 3:43
7. "Song of Bernadette" – 3:55 (Jennifer Warnes, Bill Elliott, Cohen)
8. "A Singer Must Die" – 4:52

LINKY ----> http://www.amazon.com/Famous-Blue-R...=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297918232&sr=1-3

 

[Dennie]

Jury Duty Music..... :think:

 

[Botch]

Yellowjackets' Altered State, on 5.1 SACD. :music-listening:

 

[Botch]

 

[Botch]

 

[Dennie]

"Time Served" is what they told me and would not need my service for another 18 months! :handgestures-thumbup:

Jury Duty Complete!! This seemed fitting......

The Time Has Come -- CD

The Chambers Brothers

1991 Columbia Records

A black four-piece vocal group with a white drummer in the '60s may not have been unique, but it was still something of a revolutionary act, and this, coupled with their smash hit "Time Has Come Today," ensures the Chambers Brothers their place in rock history. The group started out as the house band at the hip Electric Circus club in New York's East Village. Besides their hit, THE TIME HAS COME revolves around the band's gospel roots, which are effectively used to sweeten and develop a variety of R&B and pop material such as Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love," and the gently swinging "Romeo and Juliet."
Their version of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" is perhaps the most obviously gospel-based cut here, and with hindsight it's apparent that, rather being a new direction, the band's trippy excursion was something of a detour. But the cowbell and guitar intro to "Time" still thrills today--check out the sly "Little Drummer Boy" quote on the extended guitar solo, too. And in the light of later developments such as Parliament/Funkadelic, the rest of the track sounds like a prophecy.

Track listing

1. All Strung Out Over You
2. People Get Ready
3. I Can't Stand It
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. In the Midnight Hour
6. So Tired
7. Uptown
8. Please Don't Leave Me
9. What the World Needs Now Is Love
10. Time Has Come Today

LINKY ---> http://www.amazon.com/Time-Has-Come...=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297992472&sr=1-1

 

[Dennie]

Harmony -- CD

Three Dog Night

1971/1988 MCA Records

Excellent Album, September 25, 2001
By R. Toomey (Piscataway, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)

This review is from: Harmony (Audio CD)

This is my favorite Three Dog Night album. It contains some of the best recordings of their career. Of course the hits are here "Never Been To Spain", "Family Of Man" and "An Old Fashioned Love Song" but there are others that are amazing also. Just give a listen to their remake of Stevie Wonder's "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer" and Marvin Gaye's "You". I also think "My Impersonal Life" is one of their best songs. Lots of gems here that didn't wind up on their original Greatest Hits compilation. Most of the songs on this album do appear on their Anthology. Danny Hutton, Cory Wells, Chuck Negron and the band were jamming on this one.

1. "Never Been to Spain" (Hoyt Axton) – 3:43
2. "My Impersonal Life" (Terry Furlong) – 4:22
3. "An Old Fashioned Love Song" (Paul Williams) – 3:21
4. "Never Dreamed You'd Leave Me in Summer" (Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright) – 3:41
5. "Jam" (Three Dog Night) – 3:47
6. "You" (Jeffrey Bowen, Jack Goga, Ivy Hunter) – 3:00
7. "Night in the City" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:13
8. "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" (Jerry Miller, Don Stevenson) – 3:36
9. "Family of Man" (Jack Conrad, Williams) – 3:28
10. "Intro: Mistakes and Illusions" (poem by Paula Negron) / "Peace of Mind" (N. Woods) – 3:03

LINKY ----> http://www.amazon.com/Harmony-Three...=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297995387&sr=1-1

 

[Botch]

Harmony -- CD

Three Dog Night

You brought a big Smile to my face! My first "serious" album (after my Partridge Family phase) was TDN's Naturally. They performed across the border in Nevada a couple years ago, and I'm pretty sure they had all seven original members. :music-rockout:

 

[Dennie]

Harmony -- CD

Three Dog Night

You brought a big Smile to my face! My first "serious" album (after my Partridge Family phase) was TDN's Naturally. They performed across the border in Nevada a couple years ago, and I'm pretty sure they had all seven original members. :music-rockout:

Sweet! :music-rockout:

Right now I'm listening to the song "Murder in my heart for the Judge", it just seemed right after my long day in the "Jury Pool"! LOL :teasing-tease:

Dennie

Disclaimer: I have no intention of hurting in any way, any Judge, anywhere, at any time. (I hope that covers my butt! bscene-buttred: :handgestures-fingerscrossed:

 

[Dennie]

Hey Botch, look what I picked up a few weeks ago......

I just had to have it.

After all, I grew up with Lori ( :drool: ) and those other Partridges!

....and they were a heck of a lot better "Band" than that "Brady Bunch"!


Dennie

 

[Dennie]

Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind -- CD

Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville

1989 Elektra Records

Amazon.com essential recording

An album that defines virtually everything that is right about adult contemporary pop--and yes, there are a few things--Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind contains lush, orchestrated arrangements of songs by first-rate tunesmiths such as Jimmy Webb, Eric Kaz, Paul Carrack, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill, Isaac Hayes, and Karla Bonoff. Four cuts, including the Grammy-winning "Don't Know Much," feature duets between Ronstadt (still singing with power and assurance even at the top of her range) and angel-voiced Aaron Neville. Other highlights include "Adios," with multitracked background vocals by Brian Wilson, and the title song, which is driven to new heights by the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Beautiful stuff. --Daniel Durchholz

1. "Still Within the Sound of My Voice" (Jimmy Webb) – 4:32
2. "Cry Like a Rainstorm" (Eric Kaz) – 3:36
3. "All My Life" * (Karla Bonoff) – 3:36
4. "I Need You" * (Paul Carrack, Nick Lowe, Martin Belmont) – 2:52
5. "Don't Know Much" *^ (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Tom Snow) – 3:35
6. "Adios" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:36
7. "Trouble Again" (Karla Bonoff, Kenny Edwards) – 3:19
8. "I Keep it Hid" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:58
9. "So Right, So Wrong" (Paul Carrack, Nick Lowe, Martin Belmont, J. E. Ceiling, J. Eller) – 3:28
10. "Shattered" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:54
11. "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" * (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:52
12. "Goodbye My Friend" (Karla Bonoff) – 3:44

* indicates duet with Aaron Neville.

^ Co-produced by Steve Tyrell.

LINKY ----> http://www.amazon.com/Cry-Like-Rain...2H7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297996827&sr=1-1

 

[Botch]

Lori Partridge....

MMmmmmm......

 

[Botch]

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