I have been acquiring tons of new (and old) music lately. As usual my listening habits are quite catholic, but I’ve been dipping into New Orleans R&B consistently, the usual mix of “Americana/alt.country,” and lot’s of “alternative” as well as older blues and rock.
Here’s a list of albums that are in the super heavy rotation:
Ray Davies—Other People’s Lives
Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet—The Complete Mercury Recordings [Box set]
Alejandro Escovedo—The Boxing Mirror
Destroyer—Destroyer’s Rubies
Neil Young—Living With War
Subdudes—Behind the Levee
The Meters—The Very Best of The Meters
The Flaming Lips—At War With The Mystics [Check out the insane video for The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song]
Donald Fagen—Morph The Cat
Bill Withers—Best of Bill Withers: Lean on Me
Neko Case—Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Ricky Nelson—Greatest Hits
Robert Pollard—From a Compound Eye [Listen to the album streamed, free, over the internet by clicking here
Boozoo Bayou—Dust My Broom
Johnny Adams—The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album
Various Artists—Crescent City Soul (4 cds)
Los Super Seven—Heard It On the X
Los Lobos—Acoustic en Vivo
Some of the newest stuff I’ve picked up:
Teddy Thompson—Separate Ways
Chris Whitley—Reiter In
Garage A Trois—Outre Mer (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Alejandro Escovedo—the internet only Room of Songs
Bruce Springsteen—We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Pearl Jam—Pearl Jam
The Flaming Lips—The Fearless Freaks: 20 Years of Weird, 1986-2006
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones—The Hidden Land
Rosanne Cash—Black Cadillac
Various Artists—Searching for Soul
A few days in Bodega Bay yeilded lots of new, old music thanks to PMM (still making my way through all this and loving it all!):
The Who—Thirty Years of Maximum R&B [Box set]
Stevie Ray Vaughan—SRV [Box set]
Marvin Gaye—The Master, 1961-1984 [Box set]
The Wood Brothers—Ways Not to Lose
Various Artists—Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era [Box set]
George Harrison—George Harrison
Hall & Oates—Abandoned Luncheonette
T. Rex—20th Century Boy
Various Artists—Enjoy Every Sandwich (Warren Zevon tribute)
Robert Earl Keen—What I Really Mean
Neil Young—Greatest Hits, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
And from RG a massive 8 cd collection with an emphasis on fast, loud and out of control rock and roll):
Various Artists—Gibson’s Greatest Rock n Roll
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Good list, add to it with- The Best of Bowie – a 2 cd set. I’d forgotten how many of the songs I loved were Bowie. Latest is he’s starting a Sundance type Festival for music in NY’s Meatpacking called the Highline Festival. I’ll post more as I find out about it.
Barbara
I’d add to what is an impressive list:
Ethan Daniel Davidson, “Free The Etran Daniel Davisdson Five” (thanks to EWR for turning me on to this one)
Shooter Jennings “Put the O back in Country”