What are you listening to? 2021

Getting a lot of play this year.

Cover connections:

Deliberate maybe? I know Curtis wrote the songs GK&TPs did for the film Claudine.

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perfect sunday vibes.
and yeah, dad helped quite a bit in the making of it.

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Another welcome find from my LP collection. Love these old CBC records.

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Used to listen to this all the time but haven't in a while. Still sounds amazing.

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Kent label Etta James compilation of various lesser known recordings from throughout the 60s and 70s.
Awesome full barrel voice and some great grooves behind it.
Starts with her covering I Pity The Fool which I first heard in teh David JOnes cover and then got familiar with the Bobby Bland clasic version. I think I need to pick up some of the early 70s lps if i can. Have been looking for more stuff like All The Way Down since i got a Chess compilation some years ago. Wasn't sure what else was like that since that was the only thing on that compilation from the era I think. Now looks like there area couple of lps though I'm not sure how currently available they are.
This is pretty great though, I think I may have bought it expecting a bit more stuff contemporary to that track. But cool and Kent tend to have good selecting ability.

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Fats Domino collection from the Charly label r'n'r series which I was picking up bits of rockabilly from a few years ago. Has taken me way too long to pick up a set by fats or to be at all familiar with his work.
I think there are bits of this that are more rocking than I might have expected. pleasant groove throughout anyway.
New Orleans has a different groove than Memphis i think. Anyway can immerse myself in this.
Though I think I still have a semi stigma of thinking he is a bit MOR which I need to get over.
Fats Domino on my stereo if not my radio.

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Current Mojo cover mounted cd . Chamber pop compilation. I was wondering what the theme was since the cover was lying on the other side of the room, thought Oh You Pretty Things meant Bowie related.
Anyway, has some interesting tracks on but I'm not sure much really stood out apart from Anoni's voice.
JUst been a murky presence on my cd player when I've been trying to work out what the story is.
Probably should be some stuff that stuck with me more, it has St Vincent, JIm O'Rourke and a Maria Mckee track on but it just doesn't seem to stick in my head the way I'd hope.

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This is pretty great and I'm glad to see a label finally tackling Miles' final decade.

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Arriver Emeritus

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just a big head's up for TOPDOWN DIALECTIC listeners.

first, Vol. 3 (of the trilogy, apparently) has been announced: https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-3

in the past, the LPs sold out VERY quickly and are hard to find, so i was super happy to nab on this morning!

HOWEVER, i see that they now have repressed Vol 1 and 2, so basically they're all available again now.

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THANK YOU KARL MALONE, SERIOUSLY!!!!

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Solo improvisatory pieces on classical guitar. Another highlight of the year

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the lox

Money power respect
All I need in life

Wet Leg “Chaise Longue”

New Vivien Goldman album Next is Now

Les Filles de Illighadad “At Pioneer Works”

just got done with the first Killing Joke, now an Ascion EP or two

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this:

If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

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Cheap compilation of early Tejano music I think from teh 30s and 40s but it doesn't give dates.
These include tracks by Flaco jimenez's dad Santiago among others. Quite great.
I've been meaning to get some Tex-Mex music for decades and failing . I ordered a set of Flaco Jimenez's 60s material at teh same time and had it cancelled which was a drag. Well, hoping I get a chance to grab some more and find out what I need. Then wonder how familiar with the area i can get if I'm still listening to other stuff, but I guess that's how you gradually educate yourself. Do want to know this area.

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1968 lp by Richie Havens. I have been semi aware of this black folk artist for years but not really known his material. So this is a good introduction which I will probably expand on.
NOt sure how good the sound on this version is, it does sound a little muffled in a few places.
But I do really like the sound he arrived at including his reading sof Beatles tracks . Probably something that would become pretty cliched pretty fast soon after this but I think his versions are quite sublime.
Was originally a double lp which I don't find it a struggle to listen through. Yeah think I will be getting the lp either side of this before long if i can.

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Etta James comp;ilation from Kent label. Covers a lot of rarities from the 60s and teh 70s.
Pretty good throughout I think. Her voice is pretty fantastic.
Not set up chronologically but I'm not sure how much that shows or at least in a jarring manner.
I still want to get the full lps from the early 70s. Still looking for other material like All The Way Down which I';ve loved since getting a Chess best of a couple of decades back.

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Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape

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Early 90s compilation of 60s work by former teen heart-throb. Takes him from doo-woppy r'n'r to his bluesy folky stuff. I got it cheap and was thinking it might be angled more toward that later folky stuff. What's here is pretty good though some of the r'n'r stuff is a bit disposable.
I'm just getting into his voice which now that I notice it is quite great. I think I might need to get his more 65ish stuff in one place which I think exists as one cd . may have even had it way back. NOt sure though.
Do know that somebody invited him into their office at the record label and gave him a blues record which I think was just coming out and t had a lasting effect on his taste. Even though the reason for the gift was a recognition of some influence already there. may have been the early 60s Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues or something as significant .
Yeah want to get more of that mid 60s stuff which wasn't really circulated at the time and the later 60s stuff which was.
I found this on the cd shelves of a local 2nd hand record shop so was one of the somewhat limited choice of things there but this and the next item for 3Euro a piece wasn't bad so need to check there again regularly.

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2cd of various songs covered by and feeding into the London Blues scene of the early 60s. You get a load of these songs on the lps that came out from taht scene.
Hangs together very well I think and I do enjoy this material. I have only heard teh 2nd disc so far. It has some interesting stuff like Richard perry's Louuie Louie which i somehow don't have elsewhere as far as I can remember. the compilation of him I do have conspicuously does not have it on.
Also Odetta's Bald Headed Woman. BOb Dylan's House of the Rising Son but not an earlier blues version, so maybe that has already appeared elsewhere i the series. Buddy Holly Not Fade Away.
I'll try to remember to keep an eye out for the rest of the series.

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Early 70s lp by jazz singer. This captures her when she was in Japan in 1973 and was given studio time so had to get a pick up band taht features several of Miles Davis band fro that time. Unfortunately not Pete Cosey who might have been interesting but may just have not fit
Anyway great soul jazzy original material.
Shame this is her last album for absolutely years, as well as her first solo one since 64 9 years earlier.
I got into Abbey at the start of teh summer after having only been familiar with the Freedom Now Suite stuff and the European tv appearances related to that. She is pretty dashed great really.

have you heard her album painted lady from 1980 (I think)? I like it a lot. It has Archie Shepp on it.

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I was unfamiliar with Leslie Winer, but this new compilation is excellent. Dubby/arty, combination of spoken and sung pieces, she's cool.

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Yeah that C witch lp is pretty great. JOrdan has a go at her in Defying Gravity which i'd like to know more about. Apparently her relationship with matthew Ashman wasn't very healthy. I knew he was on the lp but nothing much more about them being a couple or anything.

I came across the lp on cd in the early 90s. Not sure how exactly but i think it was something I picked up in a sale after having seen it reviewed somewhere obscure previously. Very good.
I want to get this new compilation thing.

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Wow, no lime tangier, been a while since I've listened to the Canadian Electronic Ensemble!

was pleasantly surprised to see they had a bandcamp presence. haven't heard anything past their debut so hopefully the later releases are made available at some point.

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Thanks for the tip, no lime tangier.

On NML:
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