What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

First up, Mary Chapin Carpenter - time * sex * love

......then Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent

.....and now Mighty Mo Rodgers - Blues Is My Wailin' Wall

Why? They are all belters of course.

Might well have been yourself, Nigel, who recommended this one a few weeks back ............ if so, great shout ................ stonking album.

Dave, in all honesty I am pretty sure I was recycling someone else's recommendation a few weeks ago but I can't recall who posted Blues Is My Wailin' Wall originally. I am listening to it now and it really is bonkers good. Love it, right up my street.

Blues to make you happy! 

A classic and damn fine album. It also carries a particular significance for me because the first time I heard Genesis was I saw them as a support act and this was what they played. I was instantly hooked and have been a Genesis fan ever since. 

naim_nymph posted:

Tony2011 posted:

1973 - vinyl - UK first pressing...

 

Tony,

last week while i enjoyed a good blast from the past listening to my recent purchase of a pre-owned Yes Tales of Topographic Oceans on double vinyl, i read up about the recording of the ablum from Wiki, and found these paragraphs rather amusing:  

 

When the band [Yes] settled into Morgan Studios in Willesden, Lane and Anderson proceeded to decorate the studio like a farmyard. Squire believed Lane did so as a joke on Anderson as he wished to record in the country. Anderson brought in flowers, pots of greenery, and cut out cows and sheep to make the studio resemble a garden as a typical studio did not "push the envelope about what you're trying to create musically". Wakeman recalled the addition of white picket fences and his keyboards and amplifiers placed on stacks of hay.  At the time of recording, heavy metal group Black Sabbath were recording Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) in the adjacent studio. Singer Ozzy Osbourne recalled the Yes studio also had a model cow with electronic udders fitted and a small barn to give the room an "earthy" feel.  "About halfway through the album", said Offord, "The cows were covered in graffiti and all the plants had died. That just kind of sums up that whole album". At one point during the recording stage, Anderson wished for a "bathroom sound" effect on his vocals and asked the band's lighting engineer, Michael Tait, to build him a plywood box with tiles stuck onto it. After Tait explained to Anderson that the idea would not work, Tait "built it anyway".  Sound engineer Nigel Luby recalled that tiles would fall off the box during recording takes.

Wakeman felt increasingly disenchanted by the album during the recording stage, and spent much of his time drinking and playing darts in the studio bar. He also spent time with Black Sabbath, playing the Minimoog synthesiser on their track "Sabbra Cadabra". Wakeman would not accept money for his contribution, so the band paid him in beer.

In one incident during the last few days of mixing, Anderson left the studio one morning with Offord carrying the tapes. Offord placed them on-top of his car in order to find his car keys, and proceeded to drive away, forgetting about the tapes. They stopped the car to find the tapes had slid off and fell on the road, causing Anderson to rush back and stop an oncoming bus to save them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...m_Topographic_Oceans

Great stuff, Debs. I’ve read stories about Wakeman’s time with Yes. 

I still wonder how he survived the band being a steak and booze lover and in the middle of those teetotal  vegetarians. 

On vinyl. 

A set of covers .

A taster for you from Vol 2.

   Swamp Dogg - The White Man Made Me Do It.

   My, but I must be in a funny old frame of mind this evening, 'cos each album I've listened to has been progressively more bonkers 

   than the one before ................... and there's few more bonkers than good old Swamp Dogg ................. more daft blues. 

   Anyway, that's me off to get properly immersed in the music room .............nighty night. 

ewemon posted:

A taster for you from Vol 2.

I always used to shun country music, pompously dismissing it as unworthy. But having listened to so many great artists like Chris Stapleton, I am now a country devotee and proud of it. This taster is only making me more impatient for the release of Vol 2.

Thanks for the teaser Ewe.

My favourite Richard Hawley album. Best served in the evening with something medicinal ...

Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter

nigelb posted:

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

First up, Mary Chapin Carpenter - time * sex * love

......then Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent

.....and now Mighty Mo Rodgers - Blues Is My Wailin' Wall

Why? They are all belters of course.

Might well have been yourself, Nigel, who recommended this one a few weeks back ............ if so, great shout ................ stonking album.

Dave, in all honesty I am pretty sure I was recycling someone else's recommendation a few weeks ago but I can't recall who posted Blues Is My Wailin' Wall originally. I am listening to it now and it really is bonkers good. Love it, right up my street.

Blues to make you happy! 

IMHO it is his best album

Now Playing......

David Crosby - Sky Trails

Recently gave this album a spin and wanted to have another listen.......  very enjoyable!

Enjoying this recent reissue.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/...ltrane-the-elements/ 

Now Playing.....

Agitation Free - Shibuya Nights

Starting off the evening with something uptempo and off beat, a long week and need to turn up the volume while the wife is out at a conference for a couple more hours.

Away With Melancholy.  

jazz funkin blueness from 2009. 

Not taking itself too seriously but still heavy and frothy. Like a strong frappuccino at 3 o'clock in the eternal morning..

Now playing......

Mighty Mo Rodgers - Blues is My Wailin' Wall

Mighty Mo Rodgers (vocals, accordion, kalimba, keyboards, organ, precision, and piano), Albie Burks (barking and bass), Darrell Dunmore (dobro, guitar, harmonica, and harp), Burleigh Drummond (drums), Clarence Harris (drums), Tim Pierce (guitar), Chris Walsh (guitar), Vic Shoemaker (harmonica), Michael Murphy (organ), Rashied Ali (percussion) George James (percussion), Steve F'dor (piano), Harold Bennet (tenor saxophone), Kenny Walker (tenor saxophone), David Woodford (saxophone), Ray Smith (trumpet), Brie Darling (background vocals), Mary Harris-Drummond (background vocals), and Breta Troyer (background vocals)

Going to join in the love fest and join the Mighty Mo fan club along with NIGELB, DAVE MARSHALL, and EWEMON.  

Its Friday evening and turn up the volume! 

One of the best 3am albums 

Now Playing.....

War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream

Continuing on with some loud rock......   These guys are good!

Two Saluzzis (Dino & Jose) and one Marc Johnson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L947NA97f7I