I love Richard Buckner. I downloaded this as soon as I saw it come out. But I was disappointed in this one. I'm giving it another listen. Maybe it will grow on me. Anybody else heard it?
EDIT// Okay, I'm beginning to change my mind. I'm liking what I'm hearing this go-round. Guess I wasn't in a 'Buckner mood' when I first listened to it.
EDIT/// Starts out really, really good for the first 3 or 4 songs, and thereafter takes a little nosedive. But overall, not a bad album. Certainly not another "The Hill," though.
2006 indie-folk album on the Blue Note label by brothers, Oliver (acoustic & electric guitar) and Chris (upright bass) Wood. Oliver formerly founded the blues/R&B/funk/country band King Johnson, and brother Chris formed Medeski Martin & Wood (MM&W), which according to wikipedia became a cornerstone of contemporary jazz and abstract music. Ways Not To Lose was the Amazon editors' #1 pick in folk in 2006 and the album also made NPR's "Overlooked 11" of 2006.
The Wood Brothers will release a new album in October called "The Muse," produced by Buddy Miller. Paste has a sneak peak video here
Little Letters by Paper Aeroplanes, an alternative/folk-pop duo that I discovered from the Navigator sampler CD that Greg posted about. Little Letters is a real jewel of an album.
As it turns out, I have a dozen versions of the Dead's Wharf Rat in my iTunes cloud, ranging from 1971 to 1991; from 8.59 minutes to 13.29 minutes in length. All are from legit releases (no bootlegs). I am listening through them in chronological order, an interesting afternoon of music. (pic is Jerry Garcia's sketch of August West, the hero of our story.)
I've been winnowing my SFL down on the basis that if I listen to something from it on some streaming site and that does not commit me to wanting to buy it now with the current 2for1 booster pack, it gets deleted. Post-boosters I am going to reevaluate. I have reached a point at emusic where I feel as if sometimes I am buying music I am only half committed to just to buy things off my SFL. If it feels almost as entertaining to gradually remove things from the SFL through elimination as through purchase, something is awry. I am also going through a phase of having a strong hankering for the days of listening to a few key recordings over and over for a larger portion of time than masses of things twice each. It's possible this booster sale might eventuate in a hold.
Or the winds may change.
Either way, this one gets to stay on the list for now.
Noam Pikely plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe: the title doesn't convey how equally conservative and audacious the music is. "Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe" is a touchstone, establishing how key Bluegrass compositions should be played by individual instruments. Here, Pikelny eschews the way banjo players are almost required to play the same tunes, and transcribes the almost sacrosanct fiddler parts for the banjo, playing his instrument in very un-banjo like fashion. As obvious as it might seem, what he does is a challenge to the internal dynamic of the BG band and the role each musician is supposed to play in it.
(If only eMu's rip weren't highly flawed. The second album in a month I'll need to complain about.)
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There's a trumpet playing 3rd part on this album that is an absolute genius.
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Surrounded by Richard Buckner, released Sept. 3.
I love Richard Buckner. I downloaded this as soon as I saw it come out. But I was disappointed in this one. I'm giving it another listen. Maybe it will grow on me. Anybody else heard it?
EDIT// Okay, I'm beginning to change my mind. I'm liking what I'm hearing this go-round. Guess I wasn't in a 'Buckner mood' when I first listened to it.
EDIT/// Starts out really, really good for the first 3 or 4 songs, and thereafter takes a little nosedive. But overall, not a bad album. Certainly not another "The Hill," though.
2006 indie-folk album on the Blue Note label by brothers, Oliver (acoustic & electric guitar) and Chris (upright bass) Wood. Oliver formerly founded the blues/R&B/funk/country band King Johnson, and brother Chris formed Medeski Martin & Wood (MM&W), which according to wikipedia became a cornerstone of contemporary jazz and abstract music. Ways Not To Lose was the Amazon editors' #1 pick in folk in 2006 and the album also made NPR's "Overlooked 11" of 2006.
The Wood Brothers will release a new album in October called "The Muse," produced by Buddy Miller. Paste has a sneak peak video here
Little Letters by Paper Aeroplanes, an alternative/folk-pop duo that I discovered from the Navigator sampler CD that Greg posted about. Little Letters is a real jewel of an album.
Info @ Emusers
As it turns out, I have a dozen versions of the Dead's Wharf Rat in my iTunes cloud, ranging from 1971 to 1991; from 8.59 minutes to 13.29 minutes in length. All are from legit releases (no bootlegs). I am listening through them in chronological order, an interesting afternoon of music. (pic is Jerry Garcia's sketch of August West, the hero of our story.)
Info @ Emusers
Just in @ Soundcloud from Boring Machines:
One of Michel Leroy's (Un Festin Sagital) many projects as Thanatoloop:
Thanatoloop (feat 886VG and Constanza Lagos) - La Santa
Perhaps my favorite film score (not that I listen to many). A lot like loscil's music.
ETA, spotifying this with the thought that it might lead to removing it from my SFL at emu....but I am actually rather liking it.
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Some good banjo-driven folk with good songwriting.
I've been winnowing my SFL down on the basis that if I listen to something from it on some streaming site and that does not commit me to wanting to buy it now with the current 2for1 booster pack, it gets deleted. Post-boosters I am going to reevaluate. I have reached a point at emusic where I feel as if sometimes I am buying music I am only half committed to just to buy things off my SFL. If it feels almost as entertaining to gradually remove things from the SFL through elimination as through purchase, something is awry. I am also going through a phase of having a strong hankering for the days of listening to a few key recordings over and over for a larger portion of time than masses of things twice each. It's possible this booster sale might eventuate in a hold.
Or the winds may change.
Either way, this one gets to stay on the list for now.
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Mint Julep-Save Your Season
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Thanks, BT.
Noam Pikely plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe: the title doesn't convey how equally conservative and audacious the music is. "Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe" is a touchstone, establishing how key Bluegrass compositions should be played by individual instruments. Here, Pikelny eschews the way banjo players are almost required to play the same tunes, and transcribes the almost sacrosanct fiddler parts for the banjo, playing his instrument in very un-banjo like fashion. As obvious as it might seem, what he does is a challenge to the internal dynamic of the BG band and the role each musician is supposed to play in it.
(If only eMu's rip weren't highly flawed. The second album in a month I'll need to complain about.)