Whats on your turntable tonight?

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!

A friend of mine gave me a bunch of LPs on the condition that I transfer them to my music server and burn him some CDs. So it may come as a surprise to those of you who know my classical tastes, but the first few evenings of this undertaking have consisted of listening to a box of the entire Beatles catalog (Japanese pressings of the English albums). Got through Beatles for Sale last night, starting with Help tonight. What I find to be a lot of fun is reading the liner notes for the first two albums and wondering if in his wildest dreams the writer would have predicted what the Beatles would have become.

Not all of the albums I'm recording are of this quality, of course. For example, I also recorded the multicolored vinyl of the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra's Thus Spake Kazoosthra, truly a high water mark of the US recording industry.

Cold weather has driven me down into my listening room this evening. Last three LPs: Coltrane Interstellar Space, Jaco Pastorius eponymous, Casino Royale original Colgems stereo pressing...