Don't remember who this is reading. Help me out.Finally broke down and purchased an MP3. Before my husband fills it with Bach and Haydn, what should I download? I like Feist, Theolonius Monk, Dave Brubeck, Leonard Cohen, Tom Watts, Jo Stafford, Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams, Keren Allan, Niko Case, Johnny Cash, the Wainwrights. I'm pretty open to anything new.
What's out there? I don't know what I'm doing either.
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I like the just released Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood CD.
Go for Rawlins Cross' Anthology. A sort of greatest hits with three new songs. I like them all, but Long Night is still my favorite.
My word verification is ape I test. What are you trying to say? LOL!
Do we all regard the word verification as secret messages from the beyond. thanks.
If I'm not mistaken, that photograph is of Alan Bradley, author of the new novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
Cheers,
Jeff
Thanks, Jeff. I wonder where I got it from.
Terrific CD, George. I'd like to download the whole thing.
Randy-really unusual music. I like the unusual instruments. Scots-Irish, right?
Rawlins Cross is Canadian, I think.
I need to have both Bach and Hayden, a bit of Mozart and even some Mussorgsky but the player allows for so much more...Marley, Dylan, Led Zepplin, Marvin Gaye, Howlin Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, 10,000 Maniacs, the solo Natalie Merchant, Lennon, Harrison, Ravi Shankur,Various Celtic artists and David Byrne all make the cut but I think it's not so much what I listen to but that you put a wide variety of of what you like on it.
Once you have enough on there never take it off "Mix" and enjoy.
I have an mp3 player but I always forget about it, and I'm not sure just how to use it. Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur...
Wonderful taste in music you have. Theolonius Monk is part of my Jeep collection as I'm driving.
Paitt,
Since you like Feist, you should give her band Broken Social Scene a try. Also, the Arcade Fire have been a favorite of mine over the past couple of years, the same with Sufjan Stevens, his album, Michigan, is a classic.
And two more, Iron and Wine and the Decemberists'. Yeah, I'm a bit of an indie music geek.
MY SIL turned me on to Sufjan Stevens and I have Michigan and another CD by him. I've heard the Decembrists on NPR and that's a great idea. If I can just figure out how to get these tunes into some sort of file. And also how to get the thing to stop playing and also how to delete songs that didn't record well from my computer at home.
Patti - Me being me, I suggest Chicago, preferably old Chicago.
After that, I'd suggest a few of the following:
Jazz/Classical-
-Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
-John Coltrane - Blue Train
-Chris Botti - When I Fall in Love
-Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room and All for You
-Arturo Sandoval - Hot House (modern big band)
Branford Marsalis - Romances for Saxophone (classical)
Rock/Etc.
-Cousteau (self-titled first CD)
-Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
-Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
-Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie
-The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
-Springsteen - Anything from this decade
That's enough. I could give you dozens of detailed lists on specific subjects but I'll hold myself back.
Oh, and don't forget podcasts and audiobooks!
Scott, you really are my son, aren't you? Embarrassed to be on here, you've taken another name.
This is so much the list he would suggest.
Scofield, John - Piety Street (Jazz Guitar meets New Orleans gospel)
Ramblin Jack Elliot - A Stranger Here
(Depression area songs)
Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade and Townes
Bossa nova stories [sound recording] / Elaine Elias
Already free [sound recording] / the Derek Trucks Band.
A positive rage [sound recording] / the Hold Steady.
Hold Steady (Musical group)
I have to say, I loved the ‘Public Enemies’ trailer to the extent that I went out and found out what the music bed was, which is ‘Ten Million Slaves’ by Otis Taylor from the album ‘Respect The Dead’. the man’s website describes it as ‘trace-bluegrass’ and it’s a thoroughly absorbing hour.
Currently listening to ‘..And all the pieces matter.’ the OST to The Wire, which is one of the better compilations I’ve heard. (whomever they had in charge of music served them very well over the years.)
Gillian Welch doesn’t seem to be on your list and that’s a mistake that should be rectified IMMEDIENTLY, I strongly recommend either ’Time (the revelator)’ or ’Soul Journey’, both are fantastic.
And The National are a great band, their anthem ’Fake Empire’ has, bizarrely, sound tracked everything from Obama rallies to the end credits of the first Southland of late. Their latest album is the incredible ‘Boxer’, following their more immediate breakout hit ’Alligator’
You guys had me on you tube all day.
Oh, I do know Gillian Welch. What about Ting Ting's "That's Not My Name"
Bob Dylan---Blood on the Tracks
John Lennon---Plastic Ono Band
Anything by James McMurtry
All these are truly literate rock.
I almost forgot, the best noir, PI short story rock'n'roll song ever, "The Big Heat" by Stan Ridgeway. That is a must for everyone who loves short crime fiction. Download it now and play it loud!
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