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What music have you been buying? Old or new?

I have been thinking about the music purchases I have made just in the last few weeks. I bought six of the new Dylan SACDs, one Eva Cassidy, one Jethro Tull live on the BBC, and Thirty years of Lynyrd Skynrd.

Even if I go back farther I find that most of the music is 'older' or at least older artists. I bought the new Johnny Cash LP and Nora Jones, but can you see the trend here?

I will admit, I am 42 years old and raised on AOR, but I just don't hear much new music that I find interesting. You can keep kid rock and eminem!!! I'll stick to my oldies over them.

Are you buying old music and artists or mostly newer artists and recordings, or a good mix of both? I'm not just asking the 'over the hill crowd' either, youngsters like slappy are welcome to weigh in!
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ben_campbell
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Nrchy-I have offered to provide this very service for Audiogon-a seperate area for reviews and music release and general news.
I am still waiting to hear back from them.
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dekay
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Just picked up "Itzhak Perlman in the Fiddler's House". It's Perlman playing Klezmer music (1995 Angel Video in stereo).

Problem is that it's on VHS tape (PBS special) and I will have to transfer the audio portion to CD for general listening.

Also splurged for:

"Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs", Marty Robbins (Columbia LP CL1349). Don't laugh, it's worth seeking out.

"Indian Street Music, The Bauls of Bengal", (Nonesuch Explorer Series LP H-72035). This is different than the other music of India we have (the cover copy makes it out to be a type of classic "folk" music - lots of vocals).

"Marian McPartland at the Festival", Marian McPartland piano (Concord Jazz LP CJ-118). Don't know much about Jazz (or women in Jazz), but it's a good one, recorded @ the Jazz Festival in 1979.
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cpdunn99
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Dylan remasters (fantastic, for the most part) and the "Masked and Anoymous" soundtrack

Tom Ovans (a voice like Dylan grafted onto Tom Waits, with a little Neil Young thrown in)

Dianne Reeves new CD ("A Little Moonlight") and Tierney Sutton's "Blue in Green." Both great jazz vocal CDs

On the classical side, some baroque-era lute, harpischord, viol music by Kapsberger and Piccinini (Cd title is "14 Silver Strings".. it's fantastic!). Also Angela Hewitt's recent Couperin disc of keyboard works.

As for jazz, been trying recently to get my Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley collections complete, both on LP and on the Rudy van Gelder CD remasters.

That does it for this week!
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