What Album Have You Just Bought?

[Villajohn]

Nature.Paul Kelly.

[Villajohn]

The Beatles 'White Album' .The most i ever payed for a box set,beating my previous 'More Blood,More Tracks' by R. A. Zimmerman.Both sellers are from Wales,funny that....

[Villajohn]

The White Album.Live in Liverpool. The Analogues. If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much!

[Low D]

Townes Van Zandt - Texas Troubadour (2005, Charly Records)

An inexpensive, well-packaged, 4-CD anthology featuring pretty great remastered sound, of his entire classic Poppy/Tomato catalog: For The Sake Of The Song (1968) / Our Mother The Mountain (1969) / Townes Van Zandt (1970) / Delta Momma Blues (1971) / High, Low And In Between (1972) / The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972) / Flyin' Shoes (1978), plus some 72/3 studio outtakes & bonus live tracks, the "missing" songs from 1973's Live At The Old Quarter. In fact, pair that album with this collection and you've really got all the essential Townes right there.

(But if you're like me you'll have "At My Window", "The Nashville Sessions" and "No Deeper Blue" as well, because when you're as good as Townes was, it's all essential).

[Frances]

A buck.

[old barney greyheron]

Serena Smith..'Fiddle Me This'...The Band From County Hell's fiddle player brings out her solo album of..er..fiddle tunes.

[Villajohn]

Jaques Brel en het Nederland.2DVDS,1 CD,1 10 inch album and an impressive book.Brel died in 1978,the live performances are from the early sixties.

[Villajohn]

A Good Dog Is Lost.A Collection Of Ron Hynes Songs.Ken Tizzard.

[Low D]

Masansani Club, by Charlie Hart's Equators (2017)

"The music, broadly speaking African-leaning R n B, is full blooded, uplifting and unprocessed" is what Charlie's web page says, and that's a fair description. While most of these players have performed with more famous people, many of us here will know these guys from their time with Juice on The Loose and Alias Ron Kavana, and they hit the sweet spot with that blend of London soul & world music that should really have taken over the world. Two vocal tracks mostly miss the mark, including terrible, terrible rapping on "War is Money", but overall this primarily instrumental album is the soulful, swinging, rocking success that i was hoping it would be when I saw the list of names in the group. If you're in London, you probably owe it to yourself to see them live.

http://www.charliehart.com/subpages/equator.htm

[Frances]

Because I was just having one of those random discussions with a younger family member about the Tie… lyrics.
Then, there it was while thrift shopping.


$1 each.

[Villajohn]

Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde. Kathleen Ferrier.

[Low D]

Encore - The Specials

Roddy may be referring to them as The Spare-shells, and yes it's true they're down to just Terry, Lynval & Horace, but c'mon - you saying you wouldn't catch a gig / listen to an album with Terry, Lynval & Horace, no matter what name they were using? The fact is, this is a pretty great album, and while not at all a re-hash of their glory days (opens with a disco cover of "Blue Eyed Black Skinned Boys, fercryingoutloud!) it is much more of a Specials album than either of their 90s albums were. Apparently hit #1 on the UK charts last week, specific to physical album sales, 'cause us old folks still like our artifacts.

Here's a pretty fair review: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... quered-mix

[DzM]

Apparently hit #1 on the UK charts last week, specific to physical album sales, 'cause us old folks still like our artifacts.

"DOT, Jr. explained mp3's to a friend as "like printing off an internet article, so you can keep it around, because some people like that, I guess."" -- DOT on Metafilter

Even virtual artifacts are blasé now.

[Villajohn]

Love + Death + Redemption.The MAHONES.Bought and paid for last May,it finally arrived a few days ago......!

[Low D]

"Guy" by Steve Earle & The Dukes (2019).

Being songs of the late, great songwriter Guy Clark - a mentor and friend to Steve Earle from early in his career. Really, it's a no-brainer that this album would be great, and it is. But it's also worth mentioning that the Dukes have added a pedal steel player (Ricky Ray Jackson), joining the powerhouse duo of Chris & Eleanore Whitmore, former Ryan Adams & The Cardinals drummer Brad Pemberton, and long-serving bassist Kelley Looney, to assemble the best Dukes ever.




"Negative Capability" by Marianne Faithfull (2018)

I have to agree with reviewers in recent years who write hackneyed things along the lines of "like a fine wine she gets better with age." Her voice is tinged with living & age, to be sure, because she's old and she has lived ("weathered" is the oft-used hackneyed term). Marianne Faithful re-invented herself some years ago as a highly-dramatic interpreter of song in the chanteuse tradition. Without abandoning that approach, her delivery has continued to mellow, delivering greater subtlety & nuance in recent years. Produced by PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis & Nick Cave collaborator Warren Ellis, who have given a production overall sparser than some of her recent albums. Still, the arrangements feature full, lush sounds like the resonant tones of a grand piano and imperfectly-played strings, all with that essential under-layer of darkness over which her weathered voice (there, i said it!) floats.

Did she need to record yet another version of "As Years Go By?" Probably not. Did it turn out to be her best recording of the iconic number yet? Why yes it did.