Thrill of Discovery

For me, most recently, it was Dr. Feelgood. A buddy gave me a bunch of old DVD's and one was a show of their's, late 80's. Knocked me out, and I jumped in....documentary, a couple CD sets, and now a biography of Lee Brilleaux is on the way.

 

People Have the Power is on Dream of Life - one of the best sounding CD's out there, imo. There is a cool book of all her lyrics out there, also worth having. As are ALL her books, to be fair.

 

If you're not into avant garde (Stockhausen, Cage, Brown etc,) classical - then don't.

 

I kind of envy someone who's hearing Patti for the first time, she was seismic for me back in '75.
Get a good comp of her poetry then Just Kids, M Train, Devotion, Year Of The Monkey. Her writing is hypnotic.

 

I bought three of those books as well, except for "Devotion". Just started reading "Just Kids". But thanks for the recommendations!

 

A concert highlight of my life was seeing her and band (first time) on that Dylan tour, mid(?) 90's. Gone Again is a fantastic record, IMO.

 

I have and like I want to see the bright lights, but it's a real downer

 

I "discovered" recently Tusk by Fleetwood Mac

 

Agreed, Gone Again is an amazing comeback.

 

I’ve been inspired a lot lately by genre samplers/label samplers to broaden my horizon. Found that you get a great bargain from the UK NOW releases. 5CDs of whatever music you like for an affordable price.

 

Pretty much everything I've listened to for the past 7 or 8 years is nowhere near "new", but "new to me". This year, I've enjoyed getting into the band Triumph, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, a Japanese heavy metal band called 44Magnum, and Y&T.

 

Recently I took a liking to classical music. Never cared much about it before. It began with really liking the sound of the violin, so I got into a few violin concertos (the first SACDs with Heifetz by Living Stereo). I don't like piano concertos at all, though - can't keep my concentration when I listening to them. But I think I will delve into "ordinary" symphonies now.

 

Chris Stapleton is featured on 1 track on Mike Campbell (frmr. Tom Petty co-songwriter, guitarist/The Heartbreakers). Just released Friday:
The Dirty Knobs - Wreckless Abandon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fkl26kYRc4 -Pistol Packin' Mama w/Chris Stapleton
The premiere debut livestream gig from The Troubador, sans audience is up on demand through November 30th on fans.live:
FANS | Be in the Stream

Also recommend Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury as you're liking Chris Stapleton's newest release.
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Live From The Ryman
Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IjZ3dBG9C4 - Roosevelt Room, from Outer South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHzbGAAyQBU - Slowly, "

For rockabilly:
J.D. McPherson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKBmHEtpg5E - Fire Bug

& w/the holidays upon us:
J.D.'s - Socks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swukov55ZuY

 

I spent my teenage years in the 80s listening to AOR stuff (Asia, Toto, Foreigner, etc) and the next few decades I was busy catching up with what I had missed before, which left me little time following new contemporary music. Thus basically until the last decade I missed almost everything the first time around.

 

Robert Glasper.

I love his piano playing, and exploration of the space between hard bop, hip-hop and electronica. A brilliant all-rounder, as comfortable with Herbie Hancock-type stuff as with Radiohead and glitchy beats. This is 21st century jazz! Blue Note

Vijay Iyer is another one -- killer pianist and composer, pushing the boundaries of jazz, but generally with more traditional ensembles. I particularly love his trio session Break Stuff. ECM

Music is alive and well ...