Rickie Lee Jones "Pirates" Lots of L.A. sessions talent from the 70's/80's
Whats playing on your system today?
Today I decided to listen to two of my favorite rock guitar heros and one great vocalist. Guitarist' Robin Trower, Ronnie Montrose and vocalist Davey Pattison.
I listened to Trower songs:
Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....
Then I pulled out "Gamma".
I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....
Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?
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I listened to Trower songs:
Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....
Then I pulled out "Gamma".
I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....
Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?
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@reubent, @bdp24, I’ve finished listening to "This Sweet Old World". AS you know, I’ve never heard the original, so I come to it from a different perspective. When I first saw it on the market, I had reservations, therefore I did not order it. After hearing it was the recording she really wanted, drove me to order it. I’m glad I did! Although I did not recognize there are two versions when I ordered mine, I ended up with the dlb lp with side 1 a marbled yellow gold, side 2 a marbled grey. These colors seem to match the writing on the outer jacket. I know the other pressing is suppose to be pink. It seems the first 2 or 3 songs have some inconsistency. The overall character of the lp compared to my other Lucinda lps maybe slightly on the dark or compressed side. My best way of describing this would be comparing "Pineola" on this lp and "Live at the Fillmore" lp. The Fillmore is much more open/transparent. This is not enough to keep me from really enjoying the music though. As you know, I never heard the original. Having said this, I’m loving this record. I was kind of surprised how much it really rocks!. I’m so glad I now own it. I could easily imagine this record fitting in between "World Without Tears" - "West". |
@slaw, thanks for the report on the new version. And thanks to you, reubent and all other Lucinda fans for getting me back into her. I loved her from the first time I heard her s/t Rough Trade album in 1988 (damn, 30 years ago!), through Sweet Old World, and into her breakout album, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. I would go see and hear her every time she played live in SoCal, and considered her one of my very favorite singer/songwriters, sort of my female John Hiatt. But her next two albums, Essence and World Without Tears, didn't grab me. I listened to little snippets of each song on both albums, and was put off by the slow, undynamic nature of the performances. As I often do in situations like this, I essentially wrote her off, considering her no longer of interest to me. I therefore didn't even look into her subsequent albums. Geez did I miss some fantastic music! Ya'll inspired me to catch up with what she has been doing, and to give Essence and World Without Tears another chance. And I am deeply, madly in love with her again. I started with those two albums, and now can't believe their worth escaped me at the time of their release. I have been listening to nothing but Lucinda for the past month, loving every album she has made since Car Wheels. Right now I'm on Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, and am absolutely flabbergasted by what a great singer she has become. I haven't gotten to the new version of SOW yet, her singing on it getting pretty harsh criticism from some. I do hear the lack of articulation and enunciation in her current singing that some listeners don't care for, but I find myself loving it. She now sounds like the Country Blues singer she has always wanted to be. Her writing too has grown deeper. Lyrics aren't necessarily important to me; when they're great, it's a nice bonus. Lucinda's are now really interesting, and her delivery of them absolutely thrilling. Her musicians are creating a thick, swampy stew of sound, about as "rural" as I've ever heard. The deep groove her players create seems to be allowing Lu to really let go, to bring things up from way down inside. I am SO happy for her---she has achieved greatness. |
A preview of the Bluray of Ingmar Bergman's interpretation of the Magic Flute: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/video-ingmar-bergman-mozart-magic-flute When two magicians come together. |
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