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20 Jul 03 - 09:35 AM (#986967) Subject: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: GUEST,New York City I usually buy or trade for 2 or 3 new CD's every week. Here's my list of 10 favorite new CD's from the first half of this year. They are in alphabetical order by band name or artist's last name. Rev. Gary Davis- If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings Greenbriar Boys- Big Apple Bluegrass Jack Hardy- Bandolier Priscilla Herdman- The Road Home Klezmatics- Rise Up! Sheyt Oyf! Rod MacDonald- Recognition Tom Russell- Modern Art Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer- Rejoicing Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- Relax Your Mind Wenzel- Ticky Tock The Rev. Gary Davis and Greenbriar Boys CD's are archival recordings. The rest are brand new. |
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20 Jul 03 - 11:48 AM (#987006) Subject: RE: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: Candyman(inactive) I agree that the Tom Russell and Reverend Gary Davis CDs are excellent. I haven't heard most of the others. Who are Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer and Wenzel? |
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20 Jul 03 - 12:08 PM (#987016) Subject: RE: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: Mudlark Being on a restricted financial diet I don't buy many CD's but have been very happy with my Mudcat compilations and JustaPicker's CD, plus Bob and Janita Baker's Xmas album. |
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20 Jul 03 - 01:48 PM (#987077) Subject: RE: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: GUEST,New York City Deaborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer are a husband and wife duo from Brooklyn. He plays guitar and mandolin and she plays violin. They specialize in traditional Yiddish songs. Both are also members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Wenzel is a cabaret singer from Germany who was given access to unpublished lyrics in the Woody Guthrie Archives. His CD is quite wonderful. I like it much better than the Billy Bragg & Wilco settings of Woody Guthrie's unpublished lyrics. |
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20 Jul 03 - 09:04 PM (#987219) Subject: RE: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: Midchuck "Bandolier" is a classic IMO. I've learned the title song and sung it until all those near and dear to me are throughly sick of it, but I'm not. I still haven't got the new Tom Russell, and usually I grab everything new he puts out, immediately. But his CDs don't get into the local stores, and I keep forgetting to order it. If only he'd play in the northeast more than once or twice a year, I'd get to buy it at a gig. Last I saw him live was in Castleford, Yorkshire, UK, where I almost couldn't find him 'cause no one spoke English. What's on the Greebriar Boys' CD? I probably have a lot of it on old vinyl. Peter. |
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20 Jul 03 - 10:49 PM (#987241) Subject: RE: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: GUEST,New York City The Greenbriar Boys -- Big Apple Bluegrass Love Bug Darby Ram Methodist Pie Mississippi Sawyer Danville Girl Coot From Tennessee The Great Assembly Take A Whiff On Me Cabin In Gloryland Honky Tonk Girl Gotta Travel On Way Down In The Country Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Rambling Round Stay All Night Shine On Me Roll On John |
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21 Jul 03 - 09:34 AM (#987444) Subject: RE: Favorite CD's: January-June 2003 From: Roger the Skiffler Well, I've been very good lately, not buying my usual quota of CDs so I've got enough money for petrol to go see my old dad more often but these, mostly bought the first few months of 2003 have had most plays: Ben Andrews: Gallows Pole Whitely Brothers: Bluesology Guy Wolff: Back Porch Blues Michael Kaye: Justapicker & Friends Sonny Black: Blues of a kind Skip James: Blues from the Delta RtS |