Whats on your turntable tonight?

I started at the very beginning of this thread to review all the entries made over past couple of years and came across some excellent selections. One entry was Rushton's recommendation of IL Cornetto. This generated great interest at the time, only to find out that slipknot had probably purchased the last copy at Elusive disc. Well here is some good news. Just for the heck of it I went to Elusive disc online site and purchased a copy today. They currently have it in stock. Hope you acquire a copy if you came up empty handed many months ago.

Another entry was 2 albums by Doc Watson. Home Again & Southbound. Since my interest is largely jazz, classical and some rock my knowledge of folk music is extremely limited. I would appreciate any input on these two records musically & sonically, as I am sure copies will not last indefinitely.

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You won't regret either of your two purchases. With respect to "Il Cornetto", the sonics and performance are wonderful. keep in mind that the music is very delicate, but very revealing of inner detail - a great test for your systems abilities to resolve all that is there. A great listen for fans of early music performed on original instruments.

"Home Again" is another performance and sonics blockbuster, showcasing Doc Watson's mix of folk and front porch bluegrass style. His picking on "Matty Groves" is beautiful. His sense of humor is really evident in his take on "Froggy Went A-Courtin'"

It's great to hear "Il Cornetto" is still available. I recommend it to anyone reading this thread who enjoys early music, without reservation.

Congratulations on finding a copy of Il Cornetto!

The Doc Watson records are great sonically. I use Home Again regularly as a demo record for people new to my system. Musically, Doc Watson is one of the great figures of traditional American acoustic folk guitar and banjo music. He is an excellent guitarist (both flatpicking and fingerpicking style) with excellent interpretations of the traditional music he plays on these two albums. His albums are a good first exposure to this kind of music.
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As usual, Slipknot1 and I are in perfect agreement, down to the cuts on Home Again.

Cheers!

Thanks very much for the recommendations. Time to pull out the checkbook again!