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[CRAZY-HORSE]

^ I agree.

Moondance always comes close to the top of my fave album list.

Astral Weeks is the critics' favourite, but whilst it's very good, it won't be for everyone.

I like pretty much everything I've heard that he's done, but if I had to recommend three, they'd be Beautiful Vision, Inarticulate Speech of The Heart, and No Guru, no Method, no Teacher.

None of these except perhaps the last are as Jazzy as Moondance, but I think you'll like them.

thank you Tiggi

[bjgeiger]

The Legends EP: Volume I thru Volume IV

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The Legends EP: Volume I
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Released: Dec 2007
Honky Tonk [with Buddy Flett] [Live]
Tina Marie [with Bryan Lee] [Live]
Prison Blues [with Cootie Stark & Neal "Big Daddy" Pattman] [Live]
I'm Leavin' You [Live]
The Legends EP: Volume II
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Released: Jan 2008
Potato Patch [with Jerry "Boogie" McCain] [Live]
Born In Louisiana [with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown] [Live]
Chapel Hill Boogie [with John Dee Holeman] [Live]
Cleveland Mississippi [with Buddy Flett] [Live]
The Legends EP: Volume III
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Released: Feb 2008
Tears Come Rollin' Down [with Henry Townsend] [Live]
Knoxville Rag [with Etta Baker] [Live]
Big Daddy Boogie [with Neal "Big Daddy" Pattman] [Live]
U-Haul [with Cootie Stark] [Live]
Dollar Got The Blues [with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown] [Live]
The Legends EP: Volume IV (EP)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Released: Mar 2008
Red Rooster [with Henry Gray and Howlin' Wolf Band] [Live]
Sittin' On Top Of The World [with Hubert Sumlin and Howlin' Wolf Band] [Live]
Spoonful [with George "Wild Child" Butler and Howlin' Wolf Band] [Live]
Grindin' Man [with Pinetop Perkins and Muddy Waters Band] [Live]
Shotgun Blues [Live]
Shepherd delves into the laid back feel and understated approach to blues music he started to mess with on his last album, 10 Days Out. This series of EPs featuring Shepherd jamming with various delta blues survivors leaves little to be desired for even the most finicky of purists. Excellent performances from Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Henry Townsend, Etta Baker, harpist Big Daddy Pattman and the hilarious Cootie Stark.

[Tiggi]

Garden i-Pod listening this PM.

3-disc set of Ella singing Duke from 1957. Only the Gershwins figure so prominently in her Songbook series.

3 hours of Swing, Bop, & Blues with liberal sprinklings of her signature Scat (Why do we use the same word for free-form Jazz vocals as we do for animal crap ?!) singing.

This sort of thing goes very well with relaxing in the sun...


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.

[bjgeiger]

Mississippi Number One
by Eden Brent
2008
Listen to the whole album at http://edenbrent.bandcamp.com/album/miss...number-one


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1. Mississippi Flatland Blues 03:14
2. He'll Do The Same Thing To You 03:58
3. Darkness On The Delta 03:20
4. Love Me 'Til Dawn 03:25
5. Fried Chicken 03:55
6. Mississippi Number One 03:56
7. The Man I Love 04:10
8. Careless Love 03:46
9. Meet You Anywhere 03:24
10. Why Don't You Do Right 04:14
11. Afraid To Let Go 03:41
12. Close The Door 02:35
13. All Over Me 03:34
14. Trouble In Mind 05:52
15. Until I Die 04:21


Ain't Got No Troubles
by Eden Brent
2010
Listen to the whole album at http://edenbrent.bandcamp.com/album/aint...o-troubles


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1. Someone To Love 03:15
2. Ain't Got No Troubles 05:08
3. Blues All Over 04:35
4. Later Than You Think 03:33
5. Right To Be Wrong 02:45
6. Leave Me Alone 03:50
7. Let's Boogie-Woogie 04:31
8. My Man 03:08
9. Beyond My Broken Dreams 04:10
10. If I Can't 03:23
11. In Love With Your Wallet 03:20
12. Goodnight Moon 03:43

[CRAZY-HORSE]

IMELDA MAY "mayhem" 2010, cd. #7 UK.

i bought this album a couple of months ago thanks to seeing her perform on "later...with jools" but just got around to listening to it.

this is Imelda's third album release, she is a 36 year old from the emerald isle.
the album is primarily a jazz album with bits of rockabilly thrown in either as individual tracks or infused within the jazz tracks.
IMO Imelda is to modern jazz what Amy Winehouse was to 'soul' music with her superb debut album.
theres an interesting jazz/rockabilly version of Soft Cell's classic eighties hit "tainted love" on here along with a new version of her 2005 debut single "johhny got a boom boom"....never heard the original recording of this but this one is brilliant.
the album starts off at a frantic pace then slows down in the middle only to liven up towards the end again. along with that "johnny" track the two best ones are two of the slow moody pieces, "too sad to cry" and "all for you" which really let her jazzy vocals come to the foreground to show off her fantastic ability.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: psycho
best track: all for you

tracks:

1. pulling the rug **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzf0_EDTxXg audio
2. psycho **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-_gSOFJ2lM live
3. mayhem **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rik8lOmh9Ag live
4. kentish town waltz **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEYZx7Wc7E live
5. all for you ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4bSReiy6U audio
6. eternity **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DnfslI-sSw audio
7. inside out **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Ut9_PS_DA live
8. proud and humble **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2j2qrrYhU live
9. sneaky freak **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-gycxTroQ live
10.bury my troubles**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHehHLidlcA audio
11.too sad to cry ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3bgTCibxo audio
12.im alive ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnjigMXoYug audio
13.let me out ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpNqqXOzG0Q audio
14.tainted love **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOgSdc8OAI live
15.johnny got a boom boom ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9p0NUNlSk live

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rating: 2.3

[bjgeiger]

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Medicine
Tab Benoit
Swamp Blues 2011
01 5:47 Medicine
02 3:45 Sunrise
03 5:30 A Whole Lotta Soul
04 3:10 Come And Get It
05 5:32 Broke And Lonely
06 4:33 Long Lonely Bayou
07 4:01 In It To Win It
08 4:16 Can't You See
09 4:01 Nothing Takes The Place Of You
10 5:01 Next To Me
11 4:36 Mudboat Melissa

Favorite track: Next To Me Least favorite track: None

Great album

[Tiggi]

Some months ago I named Robert Johnson as the most influential "Modern" musician for popularising the Blues. I was taken to task for not considering CP. This is a fair point, and I have virtually none of his music, so bought this 3CD set.

It's really Patton, and not Johnson that popularised the Delta Blues, and Johnson was a few years later.

This collection is unusual in that it intersperses Patton songs with those from other Blues artists to illustrate the development of the form in the early years of recorded Blues. If you think plagiarism is a new phenomenon, think again. They were all pinching ideas for all they were worth.

Considering some of these recordings are over 80 years old, they don't sound too bad.

Excellent introduction.


AllMusic 4/5 stars.

[Music Head]

^^
very interesting
not even familiar with the guys work
thanks

[CRAZY-HORSE]

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT "sans fusils,ni souliers,a paris" 2009,cd.

got this promo cd from my cd shop man yesterday(and i didnt buy anything,he did try to con me into getting the new Foo Fighters album but i dont like the half dozen tracks ive heard so far!).
not the sort of thing i'd buy because i have this thing with whole albums sung in foreign tongues(individual songs are ok though),
this is MW's tribute album to Edith Piaf, the whole thing is sung in French and is really surprisingly pleasant, i ended up listening to it twice back to back.
as im not familliar enough with Martha's nor Piaf's back catalogue im not sure if this is good or bad by their standards, however, as a one off album i was impressed....well worth a listen.

[Tiggi]

1999 album from veteran UK Bluesman.

I guess some would say that JM isn't really relevant these days, but even if he's cruising you still get someone whose passion for his music has never diminished.

A decent set of contemporary Blues toons.


AllMusic 2+/5 stars.