For me, it is Hope Waits, self titled first CD. She just sounds fantastic.
I think she is working on her 2nd release. I hope it's as good as the first.
For classical music, I often fixate on one work and listen to the same performance or all the performances I have for several days. Then my fixation subsides and I'm back to a more normal listening pattern.
Recently, I was tracking down a CD with Sandor Vegh conducting the Mozart Divertimento K. 251. While I searched, I played performances by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and by Robert Johnson / NY Philomusica. Then I located and bought the Vegh CD, ripped it to Flac files and listened to the files several times. Then I saw some old radio broadcast files of groups playing K. 251 and downloaded them. That kept me going for a few more days. So the fixation was a bit longer lasting than most fixations.
Beethoven's first symphony was an obsession that lasted for almost a year.
In popular music, I played the Joan Morris / William Bolcum CDs of Gershwin, Porter, etc. frequently in past years. Lately, Fats Waller / 'The Joint is Jumpin' gets played frequently.
I've got perhaps 2500 CDs and I like a lot of them so I spread my listening out pretty effectively.
On LP:
Rashomon/Carlton Records
Missouri Breaks
Supertramp: Crime of the Century (UK)
Roy Haynes: Out on the Afternoon/Impulse (45 rpm) release
Picaflor: Music for Mandolin and Guitar/Titanic Records
Mel Torme: I Dig the Count/I Dig the Duke/Verve (original) or Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album/Fantasy (45 rpm)
Martin Simpson: Sad or High Kicking/Topic Records
On 15 ips tape:
Arnold Overtures/RR
Bill Evans Waltz for Debby/Riverside
Hindemith: VC/Decca
Supertramp - Crime of the Century and Even in the Quietest Moment
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Benny Carter - Live and well in Japan
Harace Silver - Song for my Father
And thanks John and Myles, your guys posts got me in the mood to go to my favorite used vinyl store in Ann Arbor, I'm back now $122 later listening to a mint copy of Janis Ian - Between the Lines.......also scored some Rickie Lee Jones, Rory Galagher,Zappa,and David Lindley.
And thanks John and Myles, your guys posts got me in the mood to go to my favorite used vinyl store in Ann Arbor, I'm back now $122 later listening to a mint copy of Janis Ian - Between the Lines.......also scored some Rickie Lee Jones, Rory Galagher,Zappa,and David Lindley.
I wasn't either until my wife and I went and saw Jackson Browne at the Fox theater in Detroit last weekend. He has been playing with Browne for like 40 years. I just never realized what an excellent guitar player he is, they started the concert with 4 acoustic tunes just him and Browne with guitars and then he played 3 tunes himself and joined the rest of the band later, and excellent solid 3 hour show. So I picked up 4 of his albums today, funny he still has dark hair on the covers, in reality he is all grey now, but like I said one of the best slide players I've heard. I'll let you know how these lps sound in the next few days when I play them.
I have to go digging for some Rory music tonight. Wife won't be home, lights out, gear on, air guitar in hand, volume up to beyond wife acceptable levels!!
Should be fun!
The list is long, very long. Up there at the often-repeated top are Van Morrison's "It's Too Late To Stop Now," "Astral Weeks" and "Into The Music," Miles' "Kind of Blue" and 'Round About Midnight," Bill Evans "Waltz For Debby," Steve Earle's "Jerusalem" and "The Revolution Starts Now," David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name," Cannonball Adderly's "Somethin' Else"...the list is very, very long.
David Lindley is a guitar freak! He is best known for his vocal on Jackson Browne's version of "Stay". His first couple of albums with his band, El-Rayo X are worth seeking out...great sonics too!
Always feels good to listen to:
"Face To Face" - Oscar Peterson & Freddie Hubbard
"The Greatest" - Cat Power
"London Calling" - The Clash
"More Fun In the New World" - X
"Direct From LA" - Great Jazz Trio
"One From The Road" - The Kinks
"Tango Zero Hour" - Astor Piazzola
"Elis & Tom" - Elis Regina and Jobim
"Tribalistas" - Marisa Monte
"Bebo & Cigala" - Bebo Valdes & Cigala
"Leaving Wonderland in a Fit of Rage" - Marcy Playground
"Live In London" - Leonard Cohen
Jazdoc. 2 of the Lindley albums I picked up today are with El-Rayo X one of them a live album and you are right they are well recorded. I have another question for you guys too. The diamond in the rough that I picked up today is a Japanese import direct to disc recording distributed by Audio Technica, it is a jazz quartet called the Detroit Four, the album is titled Cadillac And Mack. Has anybody heard of this group?? The recording is superb and the music is awfully good too.