Time for everbodys Top Ten list.....

I have been home recovering from spine fusion surgery for the last 7 weeks ... so the audio equipment has been getting a work-out. Currently in rotation:

Robert Plant, "Dreamland"
Nanci Griffith, "Winter Marquee"
Various, "This is Americana"
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, "Ella & Louis Again"
George Harrison, "Brainwashed"
Elvis Presley "From Elvis in Memphis"
Doves, "Lost Souls"
Stairsailor, "Love Is Here'
Bob Dylan, "Live 1975"
Otis Spann, "Good Morning Mr. Blues"

In random order:

1. Glenn Gould (piano): The complete goldberg variations 1955 & 1981; for those who like to listen to performer interpretations...

2. Erich Kunzel/Cincinnatti Pops/King's Singers perform the BEATLES - Fun, Fun, Fun recording - try the octopus garden

3. Windborne - the Dallas Brass playing Jazz. Yumm if you are a brass junkie like me.

4. I am not a Barabara Streisand fan, but "Classical Barbara" is a favorite of mine. I have had the LP since 1982, recently bought the CD. Warning: you need a REALLY good CDP in order to enjoy it. Quite wonderful, and not typical Streisand by any stretch of the imagination.

5. Getz/Gilberto - one of the desert island discs. Not new, but it has sent me on a quest to find the world's greatest recording of "the girl from ipanema".

6. Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - try the Tahiti Trot (tea for two), or better yet, the Piano Concerto no 1 in C-minor for piano trumpet and strings. Wierd name for a Jazz piece, nonetheless, jazz it is.

7. Bela Fleck: Perpetual Motion. He plays a banjo, he can't read music, nonetheless this is all CLASSICAL music Bach to Paganini played with accompanying and contrapuntal violin, cello, piano, guitar, mandolin, marimba. This is a Grammy Winner, and well deserved.

8. Essential Guitar: 33 guitar masterpieces. Compilation. Can't say enough good about these 2 disks.

9. Have been listening to Respighi alot lately - pines/fountains of rome. Good disk for assessing system performance on instruments that are naturally on the bright side. What should bright sound like?

10. And finally, guess I need some pop-rock in here. How about Surfer Girl, by the beach boys. Have been walking down rockandroll/folk memory lane recently. Given the present, the past is the best place to listen carefree.

I have a staging area next to my turntable and every Saturday I replace the past weeks vinyl into my library. Todays chore is to put back about 80 albums. These are my favorites from this past weeks listening:

Neil Young - "Sleeps With Angels"
Joni Mitchell - "Miles Of Isles"
Donald Fagan - "Nightfly"
Count Basie - "Basie Jam"
Fleetwood Mac - "Fleetwood Mac In Chicago"
Bonnie Raitt - "Road Tested"
Leon Russell - "Will O' The Wisp"
Beatles - "Revolver"
Wings - "London Town"
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - "Car Over The Lake Album"

Great thread!

How coincidental! I was just going through my coffee table pile-up of CDs to shift some downstairs to my shelves to make room for some newer ones. On my player a lot recently:
Tift Merrit, Bramble Rose
Allison Moorer, Miss Fortune
Mary Gauthier, Filth and Fire
Bob Dylan Live 1975
Kindred Spirits, Tribute to Johnny Cash by all kinds of great people
Johnny Cash, American IV, The Man Comes Around
Guy Clark, Cold Dog Soup
Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly
Rodney Crowell, The Houston Kid
Neil Young, Are You Passionate
Guy Clark, The Dark
Tom Waits, Alice
Tom Waits, Blood Money
Neko Case, Black Listed
The Flatlanders, Now Again
Springsteen, The Rising
Linda Thompson, Fashionably Late
Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses
Beth Orton, Daybreaker
Beck, Sea Change
Greg Brown, Dream Cafe, and Over and Under
Aimee Mann, Lost in Space
Peter Bruntnell, Ends of the Earth
The Be Good Tanyas, Blue Horse
Josh Ritter, Golden Age of Radio
Going Driftless, Tribute to the songs of Greg Brown
Steve Earle, Jerusalem
HEM, Rabbit Songs
These are all in the category of Alt.Country or Singer/Songwriters and most are from 2002 or 2001.

Sc53, is that what they call Y'allternative?