what are you listening to over here?

[RedDirtRog]

Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream

Little Feat - Rooster Rag

The V -Roys - Sooner Or Later

The Country Westernaires - Self Titled debut

Deadman - Take Up Your Mat and Walk

[woogie]

Bruce Hornsby and the Range - Greatest Radio Hits.

[woogie]

The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me.

[TonyNYC]

Last night I saw Los Lobos at The Brooklyn Bowl for $25 and what a deal...Just the usual great Los Lobos show despite the fact that they played only 4 songs I would have picked: Will The Wolf Survive, Kiko & The Lavender Moon, Don't Worry Baby and Let's Just Say Goodnight. They opened on these acoustic mishaped Mexican looking guitars with 4 cuts that absolutely cooked then the drummer and sax/keyboard guy came out while they strapped on their electric guitars and I got to hear a few they rarely play (Angels With Dirty Faces, Short Side Of Nothing, Wicked Rain, Saint Behind The Glass) that are all good. They even did their gritty swinging bluesy That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore that moved perfectly into The Allmans' One Way Out. They also covered and closed with the crowd yelling/singing Not Fade Away moving into the Dead's great cut, Bertha. There were two more killer jams-and it's funny since I never had any use for the Allman's or The Dead live-with the last encore Mas Y Mas and Roses For Maria from the last album with Steve Berlin extending himself on flute and getting all spooky, jazzy.

They are so so good. With their solid and basic blues, tex mex and rock foundation they do so many different things. Long live David Hidalgo.

Then for lunch I got to see NRBQ who were playing an hour set nearby my residence. Yes, it beat work, but I was totally unimpressed. Painless and pleasant and sort of fun music-like Chinese food that never filled me up-but nothing that stuck with me or held onto me. Lousy vocals and noticeably bad lyrics. I did like two songs that have titles something like Floaters and If You Got The Blues, Get Rhythm. They did the Kinks' great better things and it was better than the rest of their set.

Maybe I'm a snob, but when I think of great bar bands I'm thinking Southside Johnny and Los Lobos.

Undfortunately I was too old and too tired to see Neko Case for free tonight. Next time.

[woogie]

Vince Gill - When Love Finds You.Man that guy can sing.
Souvenirs, guess it's a Vince Gill evening.

[woogie]

The kind of mood I'm in Vince Gill is cheering me up and chillin me out.
Actually I think the Jack Daniels is helping a bit as well.

[wheland]

CSN - CSN 2012 2 cd / 1 DVD set recorded in CA in 4-12. Listening to the cds right now and they sound fine. A few creaks in the voices and harmonies at times- David has the fewest problems overall. Not big on music DVD's - I usually just put them on and listen to the music and not watch it.

Poco- Setlist : Live Basically cuts from the live albums released over the years along with a couple never officially released until this cd (but readily available on various boots)

I'll add this observation- the CSN recording suffers in part because of listening to some of the best live tracks recorded by Poco for official release and because the Poco tracks were recorded when everybody was a bit younger .

Dennis

[woogie]

PC - Changing Horses.

[wheland]

Squakket- Chris Squire & Steve Hackett ( saw the current lineup of Yes the other night)

Brian Wilson- In the Key Of Disney

Beach Boys- The Smile Sessions

Richard Shindell- 13 Songs You May Or May Not Have Heard Before

Lisa Hannigan- Passenger

Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain

Dennis

[woogie]

Bruce Hornsby - Greatest Radio Hits.Yep it's GOOD.