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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | How's this for a topic? We're all over the world, literally and figuratively here. We're exposed to many different kinds of music that may be familiar to us but foreign to others on the board.
Here's my first recomendation:
Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Rebuild The Wall
This album was out of print for a while, but I just noticed it's available again.
This is a re-imagining of Pink Floyds "The Wall" as a country/bluegrass album. It's funny, serious, and a fine work of art all at the same time.
The piece is done seriously, all humour comes only from the smack-in-the-side-of-the-head of hearing something done completely different. (Like Dwight Yoakum covering The Clashes 'Train In Vain.') Some songs, noticeably Mother, actually work better as country songs.
It doesn't have toooo much banjo, IMO. Just enough to please Tim without making everyone else barf.
John Petersen - Rest is also something that gets regular/occasional plays around our house when we want calm while reading... |
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| Been to the Future by Joey Eppard. Ever since I first heard of him and his band 3, I can't stop listening. So much talent in that band, and you can really hear his crazy guitar skills on his solo album. You can probably only buy it online, since it was published on a minor little new york label.
You can check out some samples one www.purevolume.com/joeyeppard or www.myspace.com/joeyeppard.
Note that the songs "I can't", "Shadowplay", and "Word to the Wise" are not on this CD but one of three other albums he has recorded and not yet released, and "Bramfatura" is a souped up version of a song from Been to the Future called "Vinegar Hill." Check out the crazy speed in Word to the Wise. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | 1000 Years of Popular Music |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Great minds..., Al. |
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Location: closely held secret | Gosh, Phil... thanks. Seriously.
I seem to keep drifting back to Bruce Cockburn's "Speechless". Great acoustic inspiration. |
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Location: PDX | I've really been listening to Wes Montgomery's "Smoking at the Half Note" lately. The guy could lay down some beautiful lines and with such a groove. As a guitar player, it's one of those inspirational/deep depression paradoxes.
Oh; and Phil lent me a copy of that Luther W and the Wrongs; yep pretty good. I burned a copy and it actually finds a spin in the rotation every now and then. Which is actually saying a lot because jazz (and whatever in the heck my wife plays) and an occasional classical disc is about all the CD player gets fed in my house.
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Location: GA USA | For years and years I've been a fan of Kevn Kinney's music (frontman for Drivin' n Cryin', and with his own band The Suntangled Angel Revival). You can listen to a good bit of his music at kevnkinney.com
or 44 full live concerts at archive.org |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by gh1:
Oh; and Phil lent me a copy of that Luther W and the Wrongs; yep pretty good. I burned a copy and it actually finds a spin in the rotation every now and then. Bold move, Greg. Not everyone admits to breaking federal laws :eek: in public... |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | John are you going to bring copies of your CD to the tour? |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I'm not sure which direction my tastes are heading these days.
One CD that I stumbled upon by sheer luck - The Long Black Veil, by the Chieftains. I was working out of our Ottawa office about 6 years ago sitting at this guys desk - John F. Kennedy (I'm not kidding) - and he had this CD sitting there. I ripped it onto my laptop (don't wanna let Greg go down alone!) and it is still one of my favorites. It actually developed into a longing to visit Ireland, which we did. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
John are you going to bring copies of your CD to the tour? If anyone's interested, sure! |
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Location: ranson,wva | john, if you id be interested in 2 copys...jason |
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Location: closely held secret | Great, thanks!
You can also get them online at CDBaby .
You can preview the tracks there, too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
The Long Black Veil, by the Chieftains. terrific album...
Sine-Aid O'Conner's 'Foggy Dew' is killer as is 'Long Black Veil' with help from the Stones. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Good to see everybody picking up a copy!
Now, if anyone wants to burn me one.... :eek:
(Just razzin' ya, JP - I'll be in line as well ;) ) |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I took my wife to see the Chieftains at Carnegie Hall last year on St. Patricks day. She asked my what I was going to do to top it this year. I silently sidled away.... |
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Location: NJ | Wow! this is spooky . . . .
Last Friday I was walking past the ToolRoom in our shop and the guy at the desk was listening to the LongBlackVeil . . . hadn't heard it in YEARS!!! (the "ex" got the brunt of the CD collection - go figure). He dubbed me a copy, and I've had in my car changer all weekend . . . GoodStuff!
Have y'ever heard the Chieftains' "Reel Music"??
It's all stuff that they did for movie & TV soundtracks . . .
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Take her to a Richard Thompson show... Trust Me. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Cliff - that's one that I don't have yet. It's on the list. I also like the country/bluegrass stuff - Down The Old Plank Road and Further Down... |
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Location: Burbank | Johnny Winter Captured Live! Great live album with some great kick-ass rock/blues and some awesome slide (Sweat Papa John). |
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Location: GA USA | Probably my two favorite albums are 1) Workbook by Bob Mould and 2) Where You Been? by Dinosaur Jr. |
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Location: NJ | "Johnny Winter Captured Live!"
whooo! - sophmore year of HighSchool!!!
"Good Mornin' Lil' Schoolgirl" & "Too Much Seconal" . . .
GoodSh!t!! |
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