A taste of the obscure, vintage rock gold contained on the Time Machine box set: Clear Blue Sky - "My Heaven"
I love this '60s inspired track from the UK indie comp (it's also on Rhino's Children of Nuggets box): The Dentists - "Strawberries are Growing in My Garden (and It's Wintertime)" It boggles the mind that it came out in 1985.
I love this early demo by The La's (also on the UK indie comp): "Open Your Heart" There She Goes indeed...
I adore her(Linda Ronstadt's) voice but I wouldn't have listened much if I didn't like the music I think. I'm sure her looks helps a lot too
Patsy Cline - The Decca studio master 1960-63. Amazing talent. I like her music just fine but I could do without some of the strings etc
Oh, easy on the eye too, of course. Now this is a voice I completely adore, but also a musician I admire. Sandy was incredible. And, to be fair, she also looked good.
From the Purple Rain deluxe edition. Many songs here are in my opinion far more interesting than most of those Prince included on Sign O' The Times. Purple Rain could have been a hell of a double LP.
And I was inspired yesterday after reading the thread about beautiful voices. I think that I will stay with Sandy/Joni/Linda/Patsy etc for the next days.
For years, Sandy was for me "the lady who sings beautifully on "The Battle of Evermore"". One day I bought the No More Sad Refrains compilation, and it didn't take long until I had added her solo albums, the ones by Fotheringay and a couple of Fairport Convention's titles in my collection.
Yes, I've known of the name and her singing on Battle of Evermore for over 20 years, but it's only in the last 10 years or so that I started listening to Fairport Convention etc.
Speakin of beautiful voices, this is one of my favorites of all time. This live EP includes two exquisite a cappella performances.
Indeed it is ! It is wonderful to have a well-mastered mono edition on CD along with all the other goodies in this box. I've been on an expansive Spirit binge lately ~ it's the time of year for memory associations for me with this music. My second band played gigs under the name Space Chile, a Jimi-fication of the Spirit title. I've been a Spirithead since the mid-70s when my buddy dropped the needle on 'Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus'. Randy Wolfe was such a brave and beautiful creative talent. Ola mau loa. I just finished listening to 'Spirit of '84', disc two of the BGO label two-cd package with 'Future Games' (upc 5017261206572) which I am about to play now.
^^^^^ like your pick of the Beatles Let It Be, more than likely my most played lp w/ Abby Road hanging right up there in rare air,,, /; { many kudos @wavetheflag. NP: I'm going back to a program that has been saved, and I'm picking through a treasure trove of americana again. I am one week out from the Sweetheart of the Rodeo show with Jolly Roger (the Big Byrd) or whatever, Chris Hillman and Marty Stewart and the Superlatives. I'm getting incredibly stoked, and hope my son is too. Byrds Untitled/Unissued--Hungry Planet followed by Just a Season has been blowing my doors off for the last week, plus much more. Neil Young and the HORSE--American Stars and Bars country tunes. I've been reading Bob Dylan in America which is an incredibly dense, complex read that goes places most 'Bobbooks' have not. From it, I have gathered some knowledge which will prove useful when I listen to the Dylan that I have; which is substantial (just can't listen to all of it) as I have to be selective. There is a slight tie-in with Dylan and Doc Watson which I thought was so cool, because I like to couple their records occasionally. Anyway I have some Doc and Merle following From A Buick 6 and Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues. Ozark Mountain Daredevils--The Colorado Song, exquisite beauty, and Road to Glory, a powerful inspirational tune. Some more Byrds from Farther Along and Gram Parsons from Sleepless Nights (so glad that was released), and Dylan and the Band's Going to Acupulco from the Basement Tapes, a striking song about the traveling camaraderie of fellowship with close friends. I swear if McGuinn breaks out Well Come Back Home, a deep cut that is so deep they would need a hunting party, at the show I will certainly and most undoubtedly lose it. This being the last show of the year there may be specialties to the setlist. The wall mural is one of many conjured up visions that floats my mind when I listen to this stuff... art of the heart that is somewhere lost in the lost wonder of this country America.
