what are you listening to?

[speakerlabfan]

Steve Kuhn - Trance
(1975, ECM)

Steve Swallow, Bass; Jack DeJohnette, Drums

 

[speakerlabfan]

Jeff Beck - Truth
(1968, Epic) -1A/-1G







crushing. great sound quality, with well defined low frequencies and a nice stage. If you have a time machine back to 1968 you can buy this and other new release records at your local JC Penney dept store for $2.97.

 

[speakerlabfan]

Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
(1974, Polydor) UK pressing; from EG box set

from a crazy Church rummage sale find [Eno 7 LP box set for 75 cents ] this morning - sounds terrific.

 

[speakerlabfan]

Off topic - the LA Clippers advance in the NBA Playoffs, getting past San Antonio in game 7.

...which means we get more chances to see owner Steve Ballmer go crazy on the sidelines..

 

[speakerlabfan]

Johnny Lewis Quartet - Shuckin' 'n Jivin'
(1972, Jaro)

self published, recorded live, nice sound quality and nice grooves from the organ guitar drums tenor sax. standard fare nightclub stuff as the 2 star AllMusic review points out but I'm digging what they are laying down, they have my attention in a club. and yeah, nice collars dudes.

 

[nobody]

A Little Louis Armstrong on 78.

 

[MarkWComer]

Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
(1974, Polydor) UK pressing; from EG box set

from a crazy Church rummage sale find [Eno 7 LP box set for 75 cents ] this morning - sounds terrific.

WHOA! I'm a big Eno fan! What a score!

 

[BubbaH]

Jeff Beck - Truth
(1968, Epic) -1A/-1G







crushing. great sound quality, with well defined low frequencies and a nice stage. If you have a time machine back to 1968 you can buy this and other new release records at your local JC Penney dept store for $2.97.

Ha! crazy you still have the shrink on that. Great frickin album. Rod Stewart was a phenom on those first 2.

 

[speakerlabfan]

Deep Purple - Machine Head
(1972, Warner Bros) Promo; -1A/-1A Artisan symbol in the deadwax

 

[speakerlabfan]

WHOA! I'm a big Eno fan! What a score!

Thanks! Nice way to start the yard sale/rummage sale season here. There was nothing else but dreck at this church sale. 2nd day of the sale. The box was in a stack with the usual crap box sets of Mantovani and Welk, and the box was taped shut with packing tape. records were 25cents - the nice church lady asked for 75cents for the box set - for that price I paid quickly and left. Opened the box in the car - and found 7 LPs in NM- shape but missing the bonus LP/EPs.

 

[speakerlabfan]

Jeff Beck - Truth

Ha! crazy you still have the shrink on that. Great frickin album. Rod Stewart was a phenom on those first 2.

Killer record. I agree - early RS is great stuff, too bad about his later stuff - at least it looked like he was having fun even if the music is not my cup of tea.

 

[speakerlabfan]

Beaver & Krause - All Good Men
(1972, Warner Bros)

includes narration (Legend Days Are Over) from Elizabeth Wilson recorded on the Nez Pierce Indian reservation, 1971. She was born in 1881 and met Chief Joseph in 1904. w/ Howard Roberts, guitar & banjo; Victor Feldman, Bud Shank, Cris Williamson

 

[speakerlabfan]

Lou Reed - The Bells
(1979, Arista) STERLING in the deadwax; mastered at Sterling by Ted Jensen and Lou Reed

 

[orange]

Oxygene V-Jean-Michel Jarre from Derek's Synth-Only Challenge cassette, on the SA-6500 II and CT-F1000.

 

[orange]

Kind of like a much darker version of Joni Mitchell, perhaps? Vicki Lawrence should have gone farther as well, she was smoking like the gun in her song.

I was flipping through records at thrift stores and found this….

I’m not a country music fan but thought it would be cool hear the title track again. I wound up playing the whole thing through 3 times and it is not country music. She does have a southern drawl and some song’s subject matter could be considered country but it’s not performed that way, at least I don’t think so. If I had to label it, I’d call it blues/jazz/folk/rock fusion.

Since I paid no attention to her during her heyday, except for hearing Ode to Billy Joe on the radio a zillion times, I did some reading online and it seems that song had had some cultural influence. There really was a Tallahatchie Bridge and it collapsed in 1972 but before that, the county it was in started fining people $100 for jumping off it – it was only a 20 foot drop. Supposedly she was asked what was thrown off the bridge in the song but has never said what it was. I always thought it was a dead baby but I have my morbid moments. Apparently a movie was made about it – I wonder if it will make it onto Netflix sometime?

I found the album surprisingly good especially since it came out in 1967. Also surprising was learning that it knocked The Beatles out of #1 place.

 

[62vauxhall]

Kind of like a much darker version of Joni Mitchell, perhaps? Vicki Lawrence should have gone farther as well, she was smoking like the gun in her song.

Been finding more bits and pieces about her online and I'm now curious enough to start looking for some of her other albums - except the duets with Glenn Campbell. She had a TV show for while on CBS but it seems the BBC was interested too.

I thought this was an interesting article and it has a link to 1968 live performance video:

http://djournal.com/news/bobbie-gen...gers-song-remains-a-mystery-46-years-later-3/




http://djournal.com/view/full_story/22780121/article-Bobbie-Gentry--Chickasaw-County-singer%E2%80%99s-song-remains-a-mystery-46-years-later?instance=popular

 

[jaetee]

Temptations - Anthology

 

[Nick Danger]

J Dilla~ Donuts(Stones Throw/ VMP).
For about the 20th time this month......

 

[Nick Danger]

Marduk~ Frontschwein(Blooddawn Productions).

 

[Nick Danger]

Mount Eerie~ Sauna(P.W. Elverun & Sun, Ltd.) 2 LP, 45 RPM.