Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Dec 23, 2018 21:16:26 GMT -5
If you are really into that album I recommend finding this Live Brubeck CD, Viper's Nest label...  Nice. I have the Brubeck Quartet's live album Jazz at Oberlin from 1953 and that's fantastic.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 24, 2018 11:28:31 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#74 - "Guitar Town" - Steve Earle
You'd be hard pressed to find a better debut album than Earle's "Guitar Town." And the title track is a great anthem to the life of a working musician just starting out. This one gets the feet tapping and the blood moving.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 24, 2018 12:30:12 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#73 - "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" - The Derailers
The Derailers cover the Buck Owens classic. I love me some Derailers in all their incarnations. They wear their influences on their sleeves...and that's okay. They definitely proudly carry forward the pop honky-tonk banner.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 24, 2018 13:38:11 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#72 - "I'm on Fire" - Whitey Morgan And The 78's
There are a lot of wannabes that have tried to tag themselves with the "outlaw" tag and pretend to be Waylon, Willie, etc. Whitey Morgan, however, is a legit successor to the original Outlaw Country movement. This is a great cover of the Springsteen standard.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2018 15:02:28 GMT -5
I've ordered mine:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 24, 2018 17:33:12 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#71 - "Already Gone" - Slaid Cleaves
Slaid Cleaves is another one of those guys that nobody seems to know about. This is the lead off song on his 2017 LP "Ghost on the Car Radio". I gave the entire LP a significant amount of listening time. Good singer-songwriter stuff.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 24, 2018 18:57:51 GMT -5
Classic track! The Time Out album, which this comes from, is an absolute masterclass in unusual time signatures. From that standpoint alone -- never mind the very impressive musicianship on display -- this is a real education for any musician. My youngest son is a drummer. And he was complaining about playing a couple of pieces with unusual time signatures and we pulled up this album so he could explain it to me. I don't play any instruments and what little I know of music theory is self taught. It really is a great album.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 26, 2018 11:44:26 GMT -5
My youngest son is a drummer. And he was complaining about playing a couple of pieces with unusual time signatures and we pulled up this album so he could explain it to me. I don't play any instruments and what little I know of music theory is self taught. It really is a great album. I'd consider getting that for him, but he's down on graphic tees. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 26, 2018 11:47:12 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#70 - "Streets of Bakersfield" - Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens
More Dwight. With one of his biggest influences, Buck. This is just a super fun song from an amazing album...Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room is pur gold. And yes..that's the legendary Flaco Jimenez on accordion. At least they didn't have to walk the streets of Barstow.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 26, 2018 13:47:02 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#69 - "Footlights" - Merle Haggard
This isn't one of the first songs people are likely to think of when they think of Hagg. And that's probably not fair, because this is a great song off a really high quality album. Hagg looks at aging, particularly as an aging artist. Great stuff.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 27, 2018 11:05:21 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#68 - "The Mountain" - Levon Helm
Another song from my capitalism isn't all-that list. Great song written by Steve Earle and brilliantly interpreted by Levon Helm. This song rings even more true over the last couple of years.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 27, 2018 12:24:25 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#67 - "Counting All My Tears" - Joshua Hedley
Another track from what is likely my favorite album of 2018 (though it could be number 2). This is the first track on the album so likely got a bit more time because of that. Still it has a late 60s/early 70s Conway Twitty feel.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 27, 2018 14:55:50 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#66 - "California Snow" - Tom Russell
This looks to be the only song by Tom Russell on the list, which is surprising on its own. And this one was a bit of a surprise. It's probably only my third favorite song on the Borderland album (after "When Sinatra Played Juarez" and "Touch of Evil"). For all that, this is an excellent song and it's definitely timely. Leave it too Russell to give depth and poignancy to a border patrol agent.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 27, 2018 19:06:02 GMT -5
I've been into a group called Badfinger lately, more specifically focused on early demos and stuff made while they were still named the Iveys (from Swansea, Wales). I really feel they had some great songwriting talent regardless of all the ultimate rock's most tragic story and Beatles connection stuff. Pete Ham was also a great guitarist. Partway he is joined by Tom Evans from Liverpool who was also a great songwriter, and they both could sing too. They made great pop/rock up to 1975 and their last album, which was only on sale for seven weeks before some business crap resulted in it being pulled or not restocked. A lot of people say the last album was their very best, but there was actually a further album after that which was simply not even released at the time. Pete Ham was under a lot of money pressure which he should not have been thanks to crap/illegal U.S. management stuff going on, and he was involved in some heavy relationship goings-ons... he committed suicide in 1975. For years, over a decade, you couldn't get Badfinger records, I think they only finally released one of their albums on CD in 1993.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 28, 2018 10:55:35 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#65 - "Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico" - Johnny Rodriguez
This one was pretty surprising. It's a pretty good example of early 70s country. Nothing at all wrong with the song and Rodriguez was a likeable enough performer. But I never expected to see this anywhere near my top 100.
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