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Adrian Belew - Side One

The Bears - Car Caught Fire

Shelby Lynne - Identity Crises, Suit Yourself (Saw her last Friday, stood 15 feet from her, with this show she is now officially my favorite female vocalist)

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Secret Machine - Now Here is Nowhere (Got tickets for KofL and SM on Thursday at 1st Ave)

Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm (Got tickets for Aimee at the Zoo on Sunday - now officially my 2nd favorite female vocalist)

Lots of good shows in town! I'm hoping Adrian passes through soon.

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Welllll NOW I'm listening to Waltham (!). Great heads-up there-thanks! Another reason this place rocks.

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Bill Monroe, classic bluegrass

Monroe's killer. Are you familiar with Framk Wakefield?

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He has Monroe's syncopated sense of rhythm plus monster chops. I used to have an LP of him; saw him live about 20 yrs ago and was blown away. Gotta find some of his CDs.

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Yesterday listened to Billy Idol's Greatest Hits. Always liked him, but this shows how powerful and consistent he is, as well as a good songwriter, collaborator, & co-producer.

I picked up a 3-CD set, the Classic Rhythm & Blues Collection, vol. 2. Vol 1 was mostly Motown, so I didn't bother with it.

But the volume 2 set is great -- Fats Domino, Ray Charles, James Brown, Hank Garland, Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jackie Wilson -- plus all those great doo-wop groups doing Duke of Earl, In the Still of the Night, The Great Pretender, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, etc., etc.

I started listening to pop & rock top 40 in 1962 (my brother's grand gesture of defiance of our incredibly strait-laced parents), and in that period between Elvis and the Beach Boys and Beatles, this was the stuff that was dominating the airwaves. I get a bigger wave of nostalgia off this type of music than anything else.

I've also been listening to a couple of Mapleshade label CDs that Senor Peso dropped off at the house last week. I am absolutely loving Austin Backalley Blue by Sweetman and His Southside Groove Kings,

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As its liner notes say:

"This is butt-shakin’, tassel-twirlin’ Texas strip joint blues. Sweetman’s raw, in-your-face tenor sax leads a down-and-dirty Austin R&B band (including veterans of the Fabulous Thunderbirds). All-instrumental and startlingly vivid, the kickass electric guitars, trumpet, sax, electric bass, and drums will get your backfield in motion. You’ll hear every detail: the spit in Sweetman’s mouthpiece, the dirt under the guitarist’s fingernails, and the delicate sound of cotton panties as they fall to the floor. "

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They Might Be Giants -- Here Come the ABCs

Over and over again. It taught my 21 month old a third of the alphabet in two weeks :D Better than flash cards, cool tunes for a kids' cd, and a subtle dig at Dubya all in one package.

MarkB

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"Turn To Stone" -James Gang.

Just had to hear that one.

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Welllll NOW I'm listening to Waltham (!). Great heads-up there-thanks! Another reason this place rocks.

The whole album is good Steve. Just returning the favor for your suggestion of The Shazam. :D

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Hank Williams Live at the Grand Ole Opry

Doc Watson, David Grisman - Doc and Dawg

Big Block Dodge - Manifold Destiny

Frank Zappa - Make a Jazz Noise Here

The Essential Magic Sam

Brent Mason - Wired

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AAhh Mudshark! We always seem to be on the same wavelength. Listening to Brent Masons - Wired at this very moment!

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Good stuff, eh??? The boy can play for sure!!!! Wired goes on the road with me, and it'll be headed for Phoenix in the mornin'!

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Let's see...

Disc 1: "Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds-A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub", by Teenage Fanclub (saw them last week with my son)

Disc 2: "Radioactive" - AM Radio

Disc 3: New Foo

Disc 4: "Come and Get It" - V/A Tribute to Badfinger

Disc 5: "Electric" - The Cult

Disc 6: "Mixed Bag" - Junior Brown

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earlier i forgot to mention;

JOHN SCOFIELD - THATS WHAT I SAY (the music of ray charles) -

its cool to hear sco play I-IV-V's and simple r&b organ trio stuff. i could do w/o the guest vocalists (warren haynes, dr john, mavis staples, arron neville, & HFC whippin' boy john mayer!), but thats just me.

JOHN SCOFIELD - EN ROUTE - this is what some folks call "post-bop", its jazzier and less accessible than his recent funky edgy neo jazz stuff (a go go, bump, uberjam, up all night). its more like most of his 80's stuff, minus the crappy chorus tone. its good, but not my fave stuff from him.

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Doobie Brothers: The Captain and Me. Pre Michael Mc Whats His Name, The Guy They Did Not Really Need. Skip over the 2 hits on this one, and you're left with a versatile album. Lots of cool acoustic guitar, some nice mid tempo cuts, and a few on the sane side of heavy metal (for the time), if you can believe that.

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Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

And You Will Know Us by The Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

Hot Hot Heat - Elevator

Kaki King - Legs to Make us Longer

Kaki King - Everybody Loves You

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I have been listening to samples off the net of Alice Cooper's new one called Dirty Diamonds which won't be released until next week. Wow. Lot of chunky guitar on this one. Will be picking it up when it hits the stores.

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New Son Volt

Sarah Lee Guthrie-explorations--this disc is awesome...

Blake Babies-Innocence and Experience...

Guest Buck Dharma
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Joe Bonamassa "A New Day Yesterday Live"

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