Beginning CD Library

Subject: Beginning CD Library
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:06 PM

Since this is the first day of a new year what would you consider to be the "must have" CD's in starting a personal collection. It would help to catagorize them, Traditional folk, Blues, Jazz, or what ever.

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:10 PM

365 days left in the year. Any chance that we'll get a dumber question in those days?

Banjoman CO, it depends! Get two CDs (any two), decide what order they should go in, and decide that you are a librarian.

For f**ks sake

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:11 PM

All of them published so far... then get all the rest as they come out

That'd be a good start...

:-)

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 06:19 PM

The MUST HAVE CDs are the ones of the great performers who are no longer with us.

Hidden English - for Joseph Taylor singing Brig Fair
The complete Voice of the People set
Veteran's Fred Jordan CD when it is out.

If the performer is alive then see them live.

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: Ed.
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 06:28 PM

You should have something by Bach and something by The Beatles.

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:12 PM

The suggestions from Peter from Essex are excellent (and the Fred Jordan Veteran double CD is out, see here.. But they would represent a massive outlay for Banjoman who just might not (I'm only going by his handle) be totally into English traditional song.

If, however, he is then I would also recommend the Child Ballads on CD-rom and Song Links, A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and their Australian Variants for starters.

After that, it really depends on how much dosh he has available. A shortlist of just a few released in the past year or so would include Wood & Cutting, Spiers & Boden, Dr Faustus, Kerr & Fagan, Demon Barbers, Witches of Elswick, Jim Moray, Mary Humphreys & Anahata, & Magpie Lane.

This, of course, leaves aside obvious must-haves like the entire Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Peter Bellamy, Pete Coe, Tony Rose etc etc back catalogue... I'm going to stop here becuse the more I mention, the more I'm going to offend by omission. And I've not even started on dance music yet...

And maybe not even on the genre Banjoman prefers. I think he needs to decide on that first unless funds are unlimited and tastes eclectic...

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:25 PM

That's really not all that odd a question. Until a few years ago, almost my entire music collection was in sheet music. Even now I don't have many CDs.

I would suggest the Mudcat CD collection. here

Then, depending on which ones you like, search Mudcat discussions for that type of music. I tend to like instrumentals and have picked up a few good suggestions here.

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: Mudlark
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:34 PM

Banjoman...in all those categories, they are much too broad in my estimation. For instance, classical: I'm partial to Baroque and here you cant go wrong with Vivaldi, and not just The 4 Seasons, but things like his mandolin concertos. Julian Bream for classical guitar, and not the orchestral pieces--too much orchestra and not enough guitar.

Jazz...again, era/style important here. For me it's 50's west coast stuff, solo to quartet. Classic Mulligan/Baker sets, Paul Desmond with anybody, Barney Kessel for guitar and Laurindo Almeida for both jazz and classical. He did some great stuff w/Bud Shank.

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:36 PM

Banjoman, your question IS rather a tall order, given that even 'must haves' depend very much on taste and personal interest. Still, that's no reason to be rude to you! I apologise for our (nameless, as usual) Guest and hope you won't be put off the Mudcat.
Maybe you could give us an idea of the direction of your interests etc. Personally, because that's the direction my interest takes I'd recommend anything from Scotland, Ireland, England or the American continent that is not country and Western or pop and contains intelligent lyrics written in English and done to a tasteful and preferably unobtrusive backing (or none at all) - e.g. Jeannie Robertson, Brian McNeill, Andy Irvine, Tommy Sands, Phil Tanner, Norma Waterson, Tom Paxton or Gordon Bok, to name but a very few. And if you're into Banjo as a backing instrument you might try Iain MacKintosh, The Dubliners, or Pete Seeger, the greatest of them all.

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: GUEST,Ritchie not really a guest
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 06:52 PM

Susanne (skw) I thought the response from the 'guest' was ok ...
:) I liked it...banjoman's been here before ... he knows the score. And to reply to his question ..the must haves are anything I havent got as for filing see t'other thread.

regards ritchie

Subject: RE: Beginning CD Library
From: Burke
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 07:05 PM

This has come up before, but most of the search terms like "best" or "cd" are used so frequently that it's hard to find the old threads. Here are some I've found.

what should be in my collection?
Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums
100 Top Folk/Blue Albums of the Century