Squonk
Terry Lee Hale and the Blind Doctors - Old Hand
Quite a strange order of songs, the first five are quite bland but the next couple are good stuff.
One of those albums, if you had listened to it in the record shop by hearing the first couple of tracks, you would have possibly not bought it.
Squonk
Tribal Tech - Rocket Science
Some hectic stuff
Gary Willis is incredible on bass, Scott Henderson not too shabby either
RJN
Airbourne - Heartbreaker :bopping:
briang-telkomsa-net
Colin James
-Bad Habits
-National Steel
costafonix
White Stripes - Icky Thump
strataxe
At work and in the car... System of a down.
Ray
briang wrote
Colin James
-Bad Habits
-National Steel
And all this while I'm working?
Squonk
Eric Clapton and B.B. King - Riding with the King
Squonk
Squonk wrote
Eric Clapton and B.B. King - Riding with the King
Clapton has such a fat tone on "Three O Clock Blues" - man this is good stuff.
RJN
The Black Keys - Brooklyn Bound.
Malkav
Cause every now and then you just want something heavy ?
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ftcl
Ben Howard - The Burgh Island E.P.
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guidothepimmp
Chad, cool band man.. I'm gonna check out their stuff
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I'm getting my tool fix
Bob-Dubery
Joan Armatrading - Into The Blues.
Santa stuck this one in my stocking. Good old Santa, I've been curious about this album for a while now and would have probably checked it out on i-Tunes in a week or so's time.
I saw Armatrading perform in Swaziland in 1990. She had a very good band behind her, but for the encores she strapped on a stratocaster and confirmed what had been hinted at on her albums for some time - she's a fine guitarist in her own right. I remember wondering why she bothered hiring a guitar player when she could clearly do the job herself.
This record puts her playing on centre stage and also acknowledges something else that had previously been hinted at but underplayed - her blues influences. She plays everything bar the drums on this album and proves herself in other roles with competent bass and organ solos. Her voice is still in great shape and her range is impressive. Compositionally it's not all straight forward blues progressions, but blues is about feeling as well, and the feeling is there, especially in her soloing.
PS: She's a Tom Anderson endorsee.
DaFiz
They absolutely loved it. I filled my iPod with Christmas songs from years gone by... NO Josh Grobin nor Boney-M here.
Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, The Andrews Sisters, Brenda Lee,
Django reinhardt And Stephane grappelli and a whole lot more. 8)
From rockin' Around The Christmas Tree and Boogie Woogie Santa Claus to Frosty The Snowman and Christmas Swing.
Recharged the battery overnight and now it's ready to run again all day.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'all.. Have a boogie woogie Christmas ?arty:
Ray
Jerry Christmas
DaFiz
I still enjoy the old stuff and seldom get exited by something new, but Black Country Communion duzzit for me,
and the newest addition to my collection Afterglow does the job... damn fine work Jason ?
Bob-Dubery
Robert Plant - Now and Zen.
This was widely hailed as the album on which Plant reconciled his past with his solo career*. You might say there shouldn't be such a need, but Plant's past was so massive that I suppose he had to face it down at some point.
We can't even play "shut up and just listen to the music" because Plant got Page in to play lead guitar on two tracks. And on the second of those tracks, "Tall Cool One", we hear the unlikely sound of 60s rock gods having fun with samplers as the track builds to it's climactic collage of Led Zeppelin samples. So back in '88, when this album was released, it was hard to listen it without harking back to Percy's past because he was so deliberately invoking it.
But all that said and done, it was a strong album back then and it still stands up well despite some annoying 80s production gimmicks (EG those clicky percussion things that whiz around the stereo space). The best moments capture that magical combination of the grandiose and crackling electricity that were the hallmark of Led Zep.
* Not just retrospectively, as in the liner notes of the CD re-issue, but, in some cases, in real time.
Bob-Dubery
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. We shall never see their like again.
Ray
I'm listening to Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What. Now, I think this is one of the greatest songwriters ever htat I've heard. And many disagree with me. But that's alright. Because some like the likes of Leonard Cohen and Rodriguez and for the life of me, I see nothing there.
