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

2001 Drag City release for Jim O'Rourke.    Insignificance.

Still sounds as fresh as a daisy.

Now Playing.......

James McMurtry - Childish Things

Enjoyed 'Just Us Kids' so much I started the day with playing it again first thing and now moving on to 'Childish Things!'

James is mighty fine!

On CD:-

Joe Cocker - Unchain My Heart

(2009)

Possibly my favourite album by the Norwegian prog rockers to start the evening with. 

   ( especially from 15.40 on this tube. Only the cassette heads will know this one ). 

   Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel.

   Prompted by DAV301, above, a bit of Joe always gets the evening off to a good start.

(2017)

Bjørn Riis, Airbag's frontman doing very well again with his second album. 

TOBYJUG posted:

   ( especially from 15.40 on this tube. Only the cassette heads will know this one ). 

Thanks Toby, this one had passed me by. 

I bought my first copy of this on cassette from Our Price in Worcester after hearing 'Woman in Chains' playing when i walked into the shop.

Quite a few years later the album, albeit now a (ripped) CD, is still sounding rather fine.

Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love

Nice varied selection of pieces, and excellent performances.

Now Playing.......

Robert Plant - Carry Fire

The more I spin the album, the better it sounds.......

Robert was interviewed in a segment on the PBS news hour last evening.

Video and transcript of interview found here.

Horace Silver - Blowing the blues away.

Allmusic.com:

Blowin' the Blues Away is one of Horace Silver's all-time Blue Note classics, only upping the ante established on Finger Poppin' for tightly constructed, joyfully infectious hard bop. This album marks the peak of Silver's classic quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes; it's also one of the pianist's strongest sets of original compositions, eclipsed only by Song for My Father and Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. The pacing of the album is impeccable, offering up enough different feels and slight variations on Silver's signature style to captivate the listener throughout. Two songs -- the warm, luminous ballad "Peace" and the gospel-based call-and-response swinger "Sister Sadie" -- became oft-covered standards of Silver's repertoire, and the madly cooking title cut wasn't far behind. And they embody what's right with the album in a nutshell -- the up-tempo tunes ("Break City") are among the hardest-swinging Silver had ever cut, and the slower changes of pace ("Melancholy Mood") are superbly lyrical, adding up to one of the best realizations of Silver's aesthetic. Also, two cuts ("Melancholy Mood" and the easy-swinging "The St. Vitus Dance") give Silver a chance to show off his trio chops, and "Baghdad Blues" introduces his taste for exotic, foreign-tinged themes. Through it all, Silver remains continually conscious of the groove, playing off the basic rhythms to create funky new time patterns. The typical high-impact economy of his and the rest of the band's statements is at its uppermost level, and everyone swings with exuberant commitment. In short, Blowin' the Blues Away is one of Silver's finest albums, and it's virtually impossible to dislike.

james n posted:

I bought my first copy of this on cassette from Our Price in Worcester after hearing 'Woman in Chains' playing when i walked into the shop.

Quite a few years later the album, albeit now a (ripped) CD, is still sounding rather fine.

Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love

 

Still waiting for the new album, but this is a great play, the production is Sgt Peppers over the top, a classic pop rock album.

(2009)

The slight change of musical emphasis toward something harder edged hacked off a number of die-hard Pendragon followers, to my mind it reinvigorated them and is up their with some of their best early albums. 

Home Service "Alright Jack"

Prompted by a forum post a few days ago;    I've had the vinyl for years (but no TT these days) &  I've seen the band a few times,  so I looked see if anyone had a download.   Found Qobuz have it,  16/44 WAV  & at £6,39 an absolute bargain    (CD from the big river is £9 something)

This is a classic top of the heap 80's brit folk/rock,  great musicians all but must mention the fantastic John Tams.   I forgot how good this album is,  welcome back,  missed it lots.

Just fancied some of that famous Scofield tone. I don't know how he gets it, but it is so unique. And so gorgeous!

  Robert Plant - Carry Fire.

  I have to agree with SEAKAYAKER, above ........... "The more I spin the album, the better it sounds".......

  Trouble is, whatever else I might have planned to play most evenings, this one mysteriously insinuates itself to the top of the list.

  Yes, folks, it really is a cracking album from Percy & Co. 

Fantastic double live set and a sumptuous recording.

G

    Z Z Top - Rio Grande Mud.

   Texas boogie from the Tops ............... sho' nuff. 

   Have y'all seen this boxset, ..................... on The River, ...........................10 X albums for 22 squid ................ bargain! 

Painting furniture this afternoon and wigging out to this one on the iPod. A few smudges as a result!

For anyone who doesn’t know this band (better known in U.S. than U.K. ?) strongly recommended to anyone who liked the Bros Landreth album or who digs Mick Taylor era Stones.