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Ashes & Dust - Warren Haynes & Railroad EarthJust discovered this 2015 release. Described as Haynes' Americana album.@GP, just read your newest comments, which brought to mind additional enthusiastic replies I want to make (besides what I wanted to say in reply to your previous post) - but deadlines…@GP, I'll have to check out Concerto Italiano's Brandenburg recording, too. Thanks for the heads up. I already have an excellent Brandenburgs by Musica Antiqua Koln (which also shoc…@GP - I was musing on my love of baroque music and the observation that I am particularly drawn to baroque recordings performed on period instruments and have come to loathe baroque m…@GP - I usually look right over recordings of 4 Seasons because I already have several versions (the Bis album being among them), and I always have the preconceived idea that there is…@GP, I can't remember if I mentioned this already, but the 4 Seasons performed by the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble is also a must-have. It's another one of the freshest, most delig…Moving on from Goataholic (got halfway through that album. It was okay, but 25 minutes was plenty enough for me.Oh yeah. I'm liking this a lot better:
Streaming on bandcamp. Totally out of my usual listening repertoire, but I heard a song by this artist on an 8Tracks playlist that caught my ear enough to…
Currently streaming on Spotify. Don't know how I missed this 2013 folk collective release, but it's excellent. I mean, what could be bett…
Streaming this 2007 album that I completely forgot was in my Amazon wishlist. My loss, as this is an incredibly good debut f…
Streaming new one from Sandra McCracken.
Thanks, Lowlife. This is new to me - streaming now on Spotify. Very nice!@GP - thanks, I am going to enjoy watching the longer video clip you provided.I always thought sopranos weren't my thing, either (actually I always thought opera…@GP - Thanks for sharing that Piau practice youtube clip. I hadn't seen that particular one before, and I really, really enjoyed it! And I don't think it's because you're easily imp…@GP - well, this has been a fun and very interesting discussion.@GP, you got me curious about what particular Art Pepper song I first listened to that affected me so unpleasantly. I went back and looked at the tracklist, and after verifying by li…Wow, really? Then I sure enough would have flipped out if I had first tried listening to something truly dissonant!Yeah, I agree - a whole lot of albums (maybe most of them) don't work at all when mixing baroque and jazz…"I seem to feel more of a momentary sense of dislocation moving from baroque to jazz than from baroque to techno."It's easy to see why that would be so when you consider how structured baroque music is. I cannot think of two k…Craig - thank you! With your help, I finally got an image to display. Huh - I thought you would have had to use the picture icon and paste the image url. I never would have thought to just copy the image and paste it into the message.![Tracker [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81S7LSF5M1L._SX466_.jpg)
Tracker by Mark Knopfler(Yesterday I listened to King Crimson since here in America we …
Mairi MacInnis - GràsNewly released album from one of the greatest gaelic singers of Scotland. This is truly outstanding.…@rostasi - Thanks for the smile. "swiftly taylor that song" - good one. Also, many thanks for the background on the Eulenspiegel myth. Still waiting for arrival of the CD but …@rostasi, thanks so much for the extra info! This is what is so great about emusers - how else would I learn these details? I try to learn as much background as I can on the ne…@rostasi, I ordered the Eulenspiegel CD but haven't got it yet. What do you think about it? I only heard snatches of it but it was enough for me to order it.
Ougenweide - Ouwe War
German medieval rock. Streaming on Spotify.
Ian Tamblyn is sometimes described as one of Canada's hidden treasures. Although he has been recording songs for about 30 years, I…
UPDATE//Quite an enjoyable album. Bluesy Americana/rock with hints of The Black Keys. I especially liked the title track.
Rosemary Standley & Dom La Nena - Birds on a Wire
A winner in my book.Wow, i just checked out one of the additional CDs listed at the end of that review that rostasi posted for Birds on a Wire under the heading, 'You might also like.' The album is If Grief Could Wait. When you click on that album cover you get an ar…
