Kendra Smith and Hope Sandoval are channeling midnight bliss through Opal, Clay Allison, Dream Syndicate, the Rainy Day compilation, Mazzy Star, the Warm Inventions. Add to that some Rain Parade, Hendrix and VU's 1969 Sessions cd from the box, a pair of Cowboy Junkies songs earlier, and call it a day...
two major Vocalion albums. Indeed, it would be better to say "4" great albums, because Dutton / Vocalion gets used to us well: very often (always ???) They put at our disposal 2 albums on a single CD. Most often these CDs come out in SACD-Hybrid, sound very good, and don't cost much. A lot of quality for a small price. Pure Prairie League, with their "Two Lane Highway" and "If the shoe fits" show how great this band was. Country Rock, Blues, so much joy in playing than in being listened to. Too bad they didn't do more success than they deserved. I have no other, of them (not yet ...) but this SACD sounds good and it is a pleasure to listen to it. And what about the great Chet Atkins? "Superpickers" and "Picks the best" sound cheerful, it is folk / country but with strong jazz influences and a typical Nashville Sounding guitar, light, beautiful, from over 50 years ago. These great albums are worth rediscovering
I always liked PPL, but the redbook cd's sound god-awful, very thin sounding, no bottom end and no life to it. I'm sure Vocalion gave them their due audio-wise, will have to maybe check that out.
While patiently waiting for Mrs Jowcol to get ready so we can take the shuttle bus back into Glastonbury Festival During yesterday’s visit we saw Rufus Wainwright - not to my taste, but great sound Wolf Alice - started OK, but then it all blurred into one Robert Plant & Alison Krause - excellent Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - excellent St. Vincent - much better than what I’ve heard on record - put on a great show Jesus & Mary Chain - very good Disappointingly, Old Person Syndrome (fatigue and susceptibility to cold) drove us home before Primal Scream played
The first album of original Who material, after the sensational smash, Who’s Next, was The Who By Numbers in 1975. Not surprising, some felt it was a letdown, at the time. NOT me! lol. Nowadays, it’s regularly ignored. Crime! Here’s the final cut of the original album, the fabulous, In A Hand or Face.
To be honest, I liked it better at the time than Who's Next, and knew others who felt the same. And the general consensus of Who fans has always seemed to be that By Numbers is the last truly great Who record. I've never heard of it being ignored.
I know I'm behind but Jack Douglas actually bailed during the project as he was involved in a lawsuit against Yoko Ono and unpaid royalties. The finished product was done by mixer Tony Platt much to both Jack and the band's disappointment. There are a couple of songs that are the original Douglas mixes that have appeared on the Epic archive Volume 3 release.
Band On The Run, Paul McCartney and Wings. "Jet" is a lot better musically than lyrically. I know this is Sir Paul, but where's the drive that brought "Yesterday" out of "Scrambled Eggs"?
Thank you for learning me! I will check that release out! Yea, upon further investigation Mr. Platt (who ended up producing the just-as-awful-sounding "The Doctor") is the guy to blame. I would've loved to be a fly on the wall at these sessions. How the hell do you hear either album and go "wow, that sounds good!".
Just check out those Douglas mixes - THEY SOUND FREAKING GREAT!!!!!!!!! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!?!??!
The label was really pushing Cheap Trick hard at the time and were even pushing for outside songwriters.
Partially agree, perhapsI I should have inserted: “by comparison “ Still, today, I still here more about Tommy, Quadrophenia, Who Sell Out, Who’s Next, and a couple of Pete’s solo albums. Maybe our votes will boost it’s rep - WHO knows?! lol.
Ron McClure, Dream Team Don't let the bored expression on this man's face fool you. This is a creative set of wonderful post-bop originals played by a fantastic group of musicians. If you have a streaming service like Spotify or Apple Music, give it a shot. You won't be let down.
Following a post a few days ago - for which many thanks During yesterday’s jaunt to Glastonbury we caught Tom Robinson Band - The Jowcols were very pleasantly surprised Dr John Cooper Clark - wonderful Jane Weaver - much improved on when we saw her in February Ralph McTell - standing in for Richard Thompson (who we’d hoped to see). Unremarkable to these ears Paul McCartney - The most convenient stopover on our route back to the shuttle bus. Saw the first 30 minutes live and the last 90 from the comfort of my armchair. Rarely rose much above mediocre IMO, though must admire his stamina and the drummer was great Back to stewarding duties this aft, so unfortunately will miss both Terry Reid and Herbie Hancock
