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Ha! Not really LISTENING but I just got season 2 of Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" series on DVD. I cut straight to the "Build A Band" episode (Allen Toussaint, Levon Helm, Richard Thompson, Nick Lowe) and now I'm watching the "Guitar Pull" episode (Cheryl Crow, Ron Sexsmith, Jesse Winchester). I'm grinning like an idiot so far. If it's all this good then parliamentary debate about legality may be justified.
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    Gillian Welch - The Harrow And The Harvest

    I'm not familiar with Welch's catalogue. This disc has just her and sidekick David Rawlins on it. Are they all like that? I don't know.

    Rawlins is very good on this disc. The way he supports and embellishes the tunes is most impressive.

    Here's a taster.


    I also got an oldie, Hatful of Hollow by the Smiths. Quite interesting. Johnny Marr is very effective on many cuts.
      Thanx Bob. I really enjoyed that. :applause:

      Howzabout reaching into your pocket hafway through the song and clipping on a capo so you can play the next riff... 8)

        X-rated Bob wrote: Gillian Welch - The Harrow And The Harvest

        I'm not familiar with Welch's catalogue. This disc has just her and sidekick David Rawlins on it. Are they all like that? I don't know.

        Rawlins is very good on this disc. The way he supports and embellishes the tunes is most impressive.
        Just visted her website and listened a couple of songs, This is Good Stuff.
        Very tasty Guitar Playing which I take is Rawlings
          Dave Alvin -Eleven Eleven. Maybe his best yet. WHatever you do dont deprive yourself of this.
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            Sadly I'm trying to listen to 'Lamb Of God again'. I still dont get the fuss. Its all melded into one long song. They can sure play thou. But Skinny Puppy just won again.
              Ray wrote: Dave Alvin -Eleven Eleven. Maybe his best yet. WHatever you do dont deprive yourself of this.
              I've got an Alvin CD on the shelf somewhere. I think it's "Ashgrove". He's a good songwriter and player with a real sting in his soloing. Time to dig that disc out again.

                Tinariwen's Aman Iman: Waters is Life is still on hot rotation on WKXrated. I was remarking to somebody recently that after a lot of time spent listening to acoustic music the last couple of years I felt the need for some more electricity. Well these guys are delivering that for me right now. There's something emphatic and joyous in the way that Ibrahim Ag Alhabib launches into a solo, the electric guitars sound really electric, and the rhythmic aspect of their music is very interesting. The latter, I think, comes from them not having a conventional drum kit but using djembe and hand claps instead.

                They often pedal a note to provide a drone effect under the solos and that really gets my innards all stirred up.

                In particular I have lots of love for "Matadjem Yinmixan" (all songs are written in the Tamashek language) where the guitar parts follows the vocal line to thrilling, potent effect.
                  Fleetfoxes - Helplessness Blues

                  Interesting Acoustic, Folk, 60's harmonies, Mandolins, fiddles etc.

                    The Best of Canned Heat.....
                      Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub !!....but i guess some of the peeps may not know the band.
                        MoisteK wrote: Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub !!....but i guess some of the peeps may not know the band.
                        Brings back memories, way back in about 1977, I came across the same album. Haven't thought about it since then ?
                        European? not UK or Usa as far as I can remember
                          Jack Flash Jr wrote: Enjoying these guys a lot:

                          Seen them live and was impressed
                            I'm back on the straight and narrow today: Richard Thompson Band - Two Letter Words. Fab live set from 1994. Danny "no relation" Thompson is mighty on bass. The band is tight. Cracking versions of "Tear Stained Letter" (with major electric guitar workout - and I don't care what he says about solos and their place in the scheme of things, this is showing off just for the crack of it) and "Shoot Out The Lights" (mandolin solo!), a flat out, hell-for-leather "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" and a spine tingling duet with Danny on "Ghosts In The Wind". Available as a digital download from Thompson's web site.
                              flatfourfan wrote: Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted



                              Saw a Soulfly vid/documentary the other day, I was really disappointed, They're pretty crap live, the repetitiveness starts grinding a few songs in, the drummer is the hardest workig person on stage, and Max is rather whiny.
                                Downloaded 1) John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns 2) Cindy Cashdollar - Slide Show

                                1) Is good and I like it
                                2) Is good but I think I need to listen a few more times before I decide. Not an issue - only 60 bucks. I've really enjoyed other stuff of hers much more than this on first listen