Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[San Antone]

Doctors, Professors, Kings, & Queens: The Big Ol' Box Of New Orleans

4CD box with excellent book of New Orleans music spanning traditional jazz to Dr. John to Zydeco.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Heard this on Soma FM. Intrigued.

[Draško]

[Marc]

Good music.

John Martyn: London Conversation (1967).

[George]

What do you do when your favorite band hits rock bottom? 

[Marc]

What do you do when your favorite band hits rock bottom? 

Still love them for their best albums and songs?

[SimonNZ]

Gwenno - Le Kov (2018)

[SimonNZ]

Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You (2018)

[SimonNZ]

Josh White - Southern Exposure: An Album Of Jim Crow Blues (1941)
Josh White - Strange Fruit (1949)

[George]

Second time through this 4CD set and enjoying it more than I did the first time.

[San Antone]

World Gone Wrong
Bob Dylan

[SimonNZ]

World Gone Wrong
Bob Dylan

I wish that was the type of covers albums he was doing now.

[Draško]

[San Antone]

I wish that was the type of covers albums he was doing now.

Yeah.  I am tired of his traversal of the Great American Songbook.  I love those songs but there are much better interpreters than he.

Even better would for him to release a stripped down record of originals, something in the style of John Wesley Harding.

[George]

I wish that was the type of covers albums he was doing now.

I guess I am weird. I have enjoyed his last three releases more than anything he's done since Time Out Of Mind. Maybe it's my age?

[SimonNZ]

I guess I am weird. I have enjoyed his last three releases more than anything he's done since Time Out Of Mind. Maybe it's my age?

And the Xmas album too?

He's more than earned the right to do whatever pleases him at this stage. It's just that the Sinatra repertoire doesn't need championing or lack for interpretations, while the pre war blues and folk which he's really a lifelong expert in still does.

[San Antone]

The Cosimo Matassa Story (4CD)

Cosimo Matass was the engineer and proprietor of J&M studios on Rampart Street, that between 1945 and 1956 saw the development of R&B, Rock 'n' Roll and Soul. It was there that Fats Domino, Little Richard and a host of other stars recorded their hits with some of the best session men around including drummer Earl Palmer, pianists Huey Smith and Melvin Dowden, saxmen Lee Allen and Alvin 'Red' Tyler, and bassist Frank Field.

There is a second volume which I also ordered.  Great stuff.

[George]

And the Xmas album too?

I own it only because I found it for a buck in a thrift shop.

He's more than earned the right to do whatever pleases him at this stage. It's just that the Sinatra repertoire doesn't need championing or lack for interpretations, while the pre war blues and folk which he's really a lifelong expert in still does.

I can't say what repertoire needs championing or new interpretations, as I don't think of music that way. I just go what I enjoy. And I enjoy Shadows In The Night, Triplicate and Fallen Angels more than anything he's done since 1997's Time Out Of Mind.   

[San Antone]

Bob Dylan : Love and Theft

My clear preferences for Dylan are for the early records from his eponymous first record through John Wesley Harding (which is my favorite of all his records); then a break until his late stuff beginning with Good As I Been To You.  I do not care at all for his "Sinatra" recordings: of his entire output those are ones I don't listen to at all.  His '80s records are also not very good, imo - until Oh Mercy, but I consider that one vastly overrated (not a fan of Daniel Lanois). The '70s records are decent, some more than others, Blood on the Tracks is considered by many as a masterpiece, and I find it the best of this decade, but nowhere near as good as his best from the '60s.

[stingo]

With the remasters hitting bandcamp.com, a retrospective of Tom Waits early records. Just now, Foreign Affairs.