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[SteveO]

LEONARD COHEN - SONGS FROM THE ROAD

Leonard will be releasing his first studio album in 8 years sometime in the Spring of 2012 !!!!!

[Tiggi]

I have Songs From The Road on my list to preview. Opinion, Steve ??

[Music Head]

Leonard will be releasing his first studio album in 8 years sometime in the Spring of 2012 !!!!!

After Dear Heather, I'm afraid

[bjgeiger]

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Heavy Blues Chevy "Blues N'Jected" is an interesting and very good CD put out by a band with a serious sense of humor. The liner notes are as much fun as the CD with liner notes such as: "This music was recorded and mixed by M. Dycus in a bedroom on good old analog equipment. It was not stolen, he has receipts for everything." You know that this is a band that does not take themselves too seriously.
What you do get though is ten good blues tracks that get better the more you listen to the CD. The CD does not have a highly produced sound and sounds very live which is what the band was looking for.

All ten songs were written by the band. The style of music is pretty much rockin blues with excursions into swing, and slow blues. Great guitar work is all over this CD from the tasteful slow blues licks of "The Walk" and "Towed Away," to the Texas Blues style of "Old Enough To Know Better," the swing sound of "She Likes To Boogie Real Low." "Old Enough To Know Better" is a solid blues shuffle that harkens to Austin Texas blues without sounding like a Stevie Ray Vaughan ripoff. "The Walk," a slow blues number, has some unusual guitar licks that you do not expect from the typical slows blues. Vocally the band can sing as well as they play their instruments.

Bottom line...I would recommend this CD to anyone who likes Austin Texas blues, or just rockin blues or even someone who just likes guitar based blues. It works on all levels and works very well. It's a keeper.

Mick Dycus - Lead & Backing Vocals, Lead & Rhythm Guitars
Kendall Rezabek - Bass Guitar, backup vocals, consultant
Scott Young - Drums, backup vocals, percussion, accountant
Jeff McGuire - electric rhythm and electric lead guitar trade-offs
Robert Bone - Electric Rhythm guitar track 1

iTunes and Rhapsody both have this CD for download. I could not find any of these on You Tube so I put them where anyone interested can hear them.

https://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/...home/files

[SteveO]

Songs from the Road is a live intimate set from his European, American and Canadian appearances.

The audience really gets into his songs since it is a club like atmosphere,,,and his band is incredible !!!

Definitely worth a listen, Tiggi !

[SteveO]

MH,

That's right ! I posted Songs from the Road because that's what I was listening to at the time to go along with the thread. Sorry, confusing I know, I added the extra info of Leonard's new one ,,, and yes Dear Heather was his last studio effort and it'll be 8 years in 2012 since 2004 - Dear Heather.

[Tiggi]

Thanks for that, Steve.

I already have the Live in London set, which is superb.

Will get to this one in due course...

[Tiggi]

A compilation of 52 of his works on 2-discs, recorded between 1927 & 1942.

One of the standard setters of Jazz Piano. The compilation is a roughly-chronological collection, and features Fats in a number of musical aggregations, playing Jazz of various hues. Solo Piano, & Organ pieces sit alongside group recordings, and all of them are life-affirming pieces, with many being enjoyably humourous.

Remarkably good recordings considering their age.

Fats' father was a churchman who regarded Jazz as the devil's music. Fats proved that the devil had the best tunes...



AllMusic 4/5 stars.

[SteveO]

Fats Waller is the first musician my wife and I had in common as we talked about him on the night we met !:blah::biggrin:

[Tiggi]

On the laptop.

Classic Jazz album as vigorously exalted by Matthew, from 1963.

Faintly avant-garde '60s Jazz, that's eminently listenable.

Even via laptop speakers, it's easy to tell there's something very interesting about this music. Don't quite know what it is yet, but I'm sure I'm going to find out.

Straight onto the Buy List. Thanks Matthew...


AllMusic 5/5 stars.