what are you listening to over here?

[wheland]

Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream

This is another mighty fine album from Bonnie. Her voice is still great and her slide guitar work is still among the best out there. She has done her magic in picking songs from other people that become her own.

She is currently selling tickets for a tour and I am going to see her at least once and I'd recommend the show unheard to anybody else who has been a fan of Bonnie in the past. I am definitely looking forward to some cookin' live versions of a number of these songs- including "Right Down The Line " the Gerry Rafferty tune she does on this cd.

Dennis

[Patm]

Bruce Springsteen – “Wrecking Ball”
Been listening to this for over a week, and keep hoping it gets better. It has not.
I really liked his preceding “Working On a Dream”. Musically, I thought it among his best with the only flaw being the lyrics on a few songs.
However “Wrecking Ball” has me wondering what’s going on. I like the music, production and the “Seeger Sessions” type musicians, but lyrically, it's worse.

Also wondering why this was released with three songs previously available on live albums. That’s the first time I can recall this happening (other than “18 Tracks” which still appears like a money grab.)

In a career as spectacular as Springsteen’s, he’s definitely entitled to an uneven album. I’m just surprised how uneven this one is.

[wheland]

Nanci Griffith - Intersection

M. Ward- A Wasteland Companion

The McCuen Sessions- For All The Good

V/A - This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark

World Party - Arkeology

Dennis

[Muckeetruckee]

Bubble Puppy, Lemon Pipers, Cowsills, David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy, ANYTHING BUT Bruce Springstone

[woogie]

Heart of the night.Poco at their best.

[woogie]

Joe Walsh - So What, on cassette. So glad I kept all (well most of) my cassettes from way back when.

[kroney]

Starting to get back to listening to music as we settle into a routine......

I don't see much symmetry here but

Bromberg- "Use Me"

Prine's- "Singing Mailman"

Poco's- "Blue & Gray

SHF Band- '74- Academy, NY ( Tks Mike)

[wheland]

Starting to get back to listening to music as we settle into a routine......

I don't see much symmetry here but

Bromberg- "Use Me"

Prine's- "Singing Mailman"

Poco's- "Blue & Gray

SHF Band- '74- Academy, NY ( Tks Mike)

I love that 2 cd set by John Prine. It's great to hear him before he was "known" outside of Chicago.

The rest of the cds are pretty good as well (although I'm just guessing on the SHF live cd)

Dennis

[kroney]

Starting to get back to listening to music as we settle into a routine......

I don't see much symmetry here but

Bromberg- "Use Me"

Prine's- "Singing Mailman"

Poco's- "Blue & Gray

SHF Band- '74- Academy, NY ( Tks Mike)

I love that 2 cd set by John Prine. It's great to hear him before he was "known" outside of Chicago.

The rest of the cds are pretty good as well (although I'm just guessing on the SHF live cd)

Dennis

Agree with you on that 2nd cd Dennis....and check your email.

Kev

[TonyNYC]

Thursday night I saw Dr and this New Orleans show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
and felt it was uneven. After a way to long introduction about the theater's 50 year history and the importance of supporting the arts. He and his band were on stage all night and five or six different acts joined them. I liked the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, loved the two jazz guys Nicholas Peyton and Donald Harrison and Irma Thomas limping on stage with a cane was great for her two songs. Man, can she still sing. Didn't go for Ivan Neville or this other organ player who both got into funk grooves that went on forever and bored me. Dr John took the spotlight only 3 or 4 times and none of his stuff knocked me out.

Thanks to Mike I got to hear, relive the SHF Band's show at the Academy of Music in NYC and it's funny how the memory works. I was there and seemed to remember that Let's Dance was the closer and they came out for Trouble In Paradise. Don't remember the Burritos cover or a blue grass number at all. While I never think Hillman is better than pretty good and liked Souther's cuts on here a lot, Richie's Believe Me and Fallin' In Love were the highlights (even Flight Of the Dove sounded better than I remembered) and better than any of his own solo versions of these songs I've seen through the years. And the Poco songs were much much better when done with Poco. I was impressed with the SHF harmonies and they had a lot of good songs for such a short lived band, but they were another one of those bands that couldn't touch Poco live especially in the Furay years.

Today I played:

Nanci Griffith's new one and like it a lot on two listens. I haven't played her at all recently. I think she got a little too cute and precious and her little girl voice was getting on my nerves. But these songs sound real good

Justin Townes Earle's Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now and I'm still loving it.

The Best of the Texas Tornadoes

Bruce Springsteen/The Promise