Old favorites that you still play and still "feel".


As lovers of music, we sometimes re-visit favorites that still can both please and amaze.  

Jennifer Warnes,  the entire "Famous Blue Raincoat" cd/album/download/video.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rZ2CPCYBQ

I would appreciate any music that you can share that has, as they say (and who are "they" anyway?), stood the test of time.  There are obvious ones from some masters...but also some that are a little less obvious. 


whatjd
Famous Blue Raincoat--definitely.

Leonard Cohen (who by fire) with Sonny Rollins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCaD6GAQmjA


King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Steely Dan: Can’t Buy A thrill
Blind Faith
Moody Blues: Octave
Cat Stevens: albums ; Teaser, Catch Bull, Tea, Mona...
Traffic: Low spark of High Heeled Boys

Jewel: Foolish Games
Renaissance: many albums e.g. Ashes are Burning, Turn of the Cards.
Enya: Shepard Moons
Deva Premal: Essence
Gabriel Roth: Refuge

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Coletrane: Ole Coltrane (hypnotic but perhaps not for those new to him)
Pharoah Saunders: Crescent of Love

Furtwangler; Beeth 9th
Rachmaninoff 3rd PC
Hovaness: Mysterious Mountain, Prayer of St Gregory


One time back around 1994 I'm on my third or fourth visit to Corner Audio in Portland. (This was back when it was still safe to visit downtown Portland.) The old guy running the place saying he is gonna give me some culture (ironic, given where Portland is today) pulls out Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall. 

What's funny about this is, the topic is old favorites and this never was an old favorite. It is however a huge favorite. What happened is that over the years every time I would pull it out the darn thing just sounded better and better. Not just talking sound quality either.  

These songs are all heartfelt renditions of standards of different cultures. In the opener, Darlin' Cora, a black man is outside his girl's window singing- but not to romance her but to get her to come quick, he reached his limit, decked the foreman, and now they must run for their lives! 

This is serious, meaningful music of the kind we just don't get any more. As performed by one of the all time great male vocalists. Recorded in superb you are there fidelity. Beyond old favorite, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall is a treasure.
md kind of blue
db take five
early al jarreau
joe henderson state of tenor
bill evans quintessence waltz for deb
coltrane johnny hartman
dusty springfield
louis and ella
Anything, well...almost anything, with David Bowie.  Anything conducted by Bruno Walter.
These have all stood the test of time for me

Abbey Road
Astral Weeks
Born to Run
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Get Happy!!
Love and Theft
Romance is on the Rise (Genevieve Waite)
Surf’s Up
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Truelove’s Gutter (Richard Hawley)
Village Green Preservation Society
Windy (Astrud Gilberto)

and currently, for about 2 months now,

Rough and Rowdy Ways.