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Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer

I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.

Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.

Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.

Mike
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Schubert, of all the Bach recordings you have which are your favorites, and which do you play most.? That is an impressive collection by anyone’s measure. Are you still finding more to purchase or have you exhausted his canon.

Jim204, about how many Bach recordings do you estimate you have?

Edgewear, that’s an impressive Zappa collection. Any favorite recordings where he plays, rather than dinks around. One of the best concerts I ever went to, at school in the early seventies, consisted of Zappa playing a scintillating solo on "Montana". Rest of the concert was mostly him yanking our chain, but that solo was so original to be completely unforgettable.

Three_easy_payments, you’re right, Ron Carter is on a lot of recordings. I’d not noticed that before.

All the rest of you fine folks, about how many of the artists you mentioned albums have you collected . That’s what I’d really like to know. I can’t imagine anyone surpassing Schuberts Bach collection though. I’m willing to offer a cherished "No prize", earned on another site, to anyone who eclipses that total.

Mike
berner99
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The only artist I have large number of CDs is Beethoven who I have several sets of symphonies including Furtwangler.
rpeluso
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Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan here.  Stones and Beatles in the mix, but not close.  
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tpreaves
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I have about 200 Boxcar Willie albums.
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Yup, Bach for sure. Several hundred, mostly on CD. Also Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Handel, Purcell, Rameau, Scarlatti, Couperin. Obviously, heavy on Baroque.

In Pop, Dylan (everything). Then Dave Edmunds (ditto), The Everly Brothers (no Everly Brothers = no The Beatles), The Louvin Brothers (no Louvin Brothers = no The Everly Brothers), Buddy Holly, Nick Lowe, The Band (no duh), The Beach Boys (those when Brian was a member), Van Dyke Parks, ABBA (go ahead, laugh. You’re mistaken ;-), The Kinks (whatta group!), The Flamin’ Groovies, The Ventures, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Iris Dement, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Marshall Crenshaw, Hank Williams, George Jones, Del McCoury, all the regulars.

But some of my favorite music has been made by bands/groups/artists with a small discography. Rockpile (a single album, though the ensemble is heard on many of Edmunds’ and Lowe’s albums), The Notorious Cherry Bombs (a Rodney Crowell/Vince Gill side-project, with a single album). I could go on, but my glass is empty, and I’m low on Vodka. Gotta get to the liquor store.

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