What are you listening to right now ?

[garym]

which Bloomfield albums ?

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, East-West (1966) (to me this album is a masterpiece, particularly the last song on side 2, the instrumental "East-West")
Electric Flag, A Long Time Comin' (1968)
Super Session with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills (1968)
The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (1968)

[radish112]

garym,

I'm a Butterfield fan too. I'm guessing you know about the new Butterfield documentary "Horn From the Heart." If you haven't read a review here's one that appeared in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/movies/horn-from-the-heart-review-paul-butterfield.html

[garym]

garym,

I'm a Butterfield fan too. I'm guessing you know about the new Butterfield documentary "Horn From the Heart." If you haven't read a review here's one that appeared in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/m...tterfield.html

can't wait to see it. There's a nice Bloomfield documentary too, but I've only ever seen it on youtube. It's in 10 parts unfortunately, but it was all there when I watched it. Here's part 1.

https://youtu.be/YJa8KIF1A24

[Grumpy Bob]

I've been playing a couple of David Sylvian solo albums via Spotify. I was never (and I'm still not) a big fan of Japan, but I recently bought his two collaborations with Holger Czukay, Plight & Premonition and Flux & Mutability, which I rather like. Secrets of the Beehive and Manafon are both growing on me...



Robert

[Kid Audio]

For the Bloomfield fans here's another one worth seeking out. "From His Head to His Heart to His Hands" 3cd's and 1 dvd.

[dasmueller]

gary I have those 4 both vinyl and CDs all very nice.

[garym]

gary I have those 4 both vinyl and CDs all very nice.

yep, classic stuff.

[RonM]

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, East-West (1966) (to me this album is a masterpiece, particularly the last song on side 2, the instrumental "East-West")
Electric Flag, A Long Time Comin' (1968)
Super Session with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills (1968)
The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (1968)

Live Adventures fuelled many a trip, back in the day, and I don't mean road trips. Loved the Norman Rockwell cover, too.

Elements of it are still in regular rotation here, through my "Alternate Takes" playlists. I like to take two versions of the same song (not always including the original) in order to hear different interpretations and get a nice fix on excellent songwriting. In this case, I'm using 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy), and The Weight, by Simon and Garfunkel and The Band originally. I think I also use a third version of 59th Street, and a non-Band version of The Weight in the playlists.

R.

[garym]

Live Adventures fuelled many a trip, back in the day, and I don't mean road trips. Loved the Norman Rockwell cover, too.

Elements of it are still in regular rotation here, through my "Alternate Takes" playlists. I like to take two versions of the same song (not always including the original) in order to hear different interpretations and get a nice fix on excellent songwriting. In this case, I'm using 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy), and The Weight, by Simon and Garfunkel and The Band originally. I think I also use a third version of 59th Street, and a non-Band version of The Weight in the playlists.

R.

I like the alternative takes playlists idea.

[RonM]

Not sure if there are any choral music fans hanging out here, but I've been enjoying Roomful of Teeth, since the excellent article about them in a recent New Yorker (Feb 11, I think). Kind of avant-classical, sometimes pretty weird, sometimes using words as percussive effects, very occasionally actual lyrics, but mostly not. Render is the most recent under their name, but Partita is more recent still but presented under the name of Caroline Shaw, the composer. Some parts of it were previously released on Roomful of Teeth recordings.

Very nicely done, best enjoyed on good equipment as lossless as possible, rewarding on headphones. Enveloping me (or is that bombarding?) as I write over lunch.

R.

[RonM]

And Roomful just segued into something completely different, Kevin Welch's excellent recording from last year, Dust Devil.

I've followed him for years, and think he's both an excellent songwriter and fine singer, who has had a career mostly considered in "Country". Clearly rootsy, and he has had a lot of his songs recorded by others, mainly country types, but his interests and songs don't really fully fit that genre. On this one he has done most of the production, and it's a kind of combo of roots, rock, folk and jazz. Some excellent sax parts and piano, and a few tasty electric guitar solos. Also a wide range of really nicely written songs. Daughter and son are involved, the former on harmony vocals, the latter helping produce and playing some instruments. Former musical partner Fats Kaplin (from the trio Kane Welch Kaplin, and part of Jack White's touring band) provides a good chunk of the instrumentation.

Very fine. It should, but won't, make Welch rich.

R.

[RonM]

I like the alternative takes playlists idea.

I'm not as diligent as I could be keeping them up to date, most haven't been renewed for two or three years.

It has been a bit of challenge to do them. I've tried different approaches but keep going back to my archaic version of Winamp; I sort my entire library by song title, and then scroll through to find the same tracks in adjacent positions, although sometimes different albums have slightly different track titles. I select what I want and then generate a playlist, which I copy into the SB library path. I organize them alphabetically, so I have all the songs starting with A in Playlist-A, and so on. Mostly one playlist per letter, but in some cases two or more. Important to sort the playlist by title and to not play it on random.

If I want to put the actual playlist tracks onto removable media to play in the car or wherever, I use a utility whose name I forget and is on my other computer, which basically takes the playlist information and copies the tracks to a target location. I usually use MP3Tag to give track numbers to each set, so they play in proper sequence.

R.

[Wombat]

R.i.p.

[Grumpy Bob]

Sleaford Mods - Eaton Alive

[mark wollschlager]

Talk Talk - After The Flood - from Laughing Stock.
RIP Mark Hollis