What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2017
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
Jukebox Babe/No Fun by Moon Duo (2018).
From Bandcamp for $2 or more. Now you get 1 track and complete album January,19 .
"Moon Duo puts a sunny psychedelic disco spin on Stooges and Suicide classics." - Bandcamp.
Sounds fine for me, Moon Duo is one of my best discoveries '17 thanks to forum recommendations.
Antimatter, Judas Table.
Heartfelt emotion on tap. This is another forum find for me.
Stevee_S posted:
'Adrift off the Islets of Langerhans' is an album of majestic, brooding mood music from Yorkshire’s master of ambience, Cousin Silas. The atmosphere ranges from the menacing to the pastoral, from the joyous to the serene.
I can see a Bandcamp download about to happen for me 
Now Playing.......
Jonny Cash & Willie Nelson - Storytellers
Streaming on NAS........ Starting the day with some guitar picking and "Ghost Riders in the Sky".......
Slim68 posted:Stevee_S posted:
'Adrift off the Islets of Langerhans' is an album of majestic, brooding mood music from Yorkshire’s master of ambience, Cousin Silas. The atmosphere ranges from the menacing to the pastoral, from the joyous to the serene.
I can see a Bandcamp download about to happen for me
Coincidentally I was playing Owlers Wood this morning. It fitted the cold, dank, misty weather like a warm woollen glove.
Now Playing......
Emmylou Harris - All I Intended to Be
Streaming on TIDAL....... Emmylou is sounding mighty sweet this Thursday morning, damp, wet and cool but she is warming up the place.
Laura Fygi - 25th Anniversary collection
Nice vocal jazz by Laura Fygi.
Gene Harris - Live at Otter Crest
Allmusic.com:
In 2001, Concord Jazz described Live at Otter Crest as a "never-before-released live recording." But, in fact, this CD is actually a reissue of an obscure, little-known LP that originally came out on the Bosco label. When Live at Otter Crest was recorded at an Oregon gig on April 24, 1981, Gene Harris was in semi-retirement -- he was still performing, but not very often. And it wasn't until 1985 that the pianist's very productive association with Concord would begin. Because Harris had recorded some overproduced commercial projects in the late '70s, bop's hardcore was calling him a sellout. But on Live at Otter Crest, a 47-year-old Harris is hell-bent for straight-ahead, hard-swinging jazz -- funky and earthy, yes, but definitely straight-ahead. Forming a hard bop/soul-jazz trio with drummer Jimmie Smith(not to be confused with organist Jimmy Smith) and bassist John Heard, Harris sticks to the acoustic piano -- no keyboards, no electric piano, no synthesizers -- and he is as inspired on Frank Foster's "Shiny Stockings" as he is on Neal Hefti's "Cute," and an 11-minute version of the traditional "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (which lends itself surprisingly well to a bop interpretation). Harris is confident and focused; it's as if he's assuring audience members that his commercial ventures of the 1970s didn't take away his desire to play straight-ahead jazz. Although not quite essential, Live at Otter Crestmarked a welcome return to form for the soulful pianist.
On CD:-
Thundercat - Drunk
(2017)
Because it's Harry's latest.
Now Playing.......
Chely Wright - I Am The Rain
Streaming on TIDAL....... Appropriate for the weather outside!
Having enjoyed Get Back a few days ago, I thought I'd dig out another Beatles album that I haven't played in a while.
(1991)
A favourite album by Chris Rea which brings back a lot of good memories and good times.
Continuing with the Beatles theme....
Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor with string quartet. Quite brilliant.
This old classic sounding wonderful now in hi-res 24/192 original mono.
It's been a long, hard, frustrating day. Some tough soul-blues from atlantic seems like just the ticket before dinner. On CD:
Bennie Wallace - Brilliant corners
