Listening to new albums by a couple old favorites: "In Between" by The Feelies and "Notes of Blue" by Son Volt. It's always a heightened period of discovery when one of my favorites releases a set of new music. As in the pre-internet days, I try to keep the new sounds a mystery going into the first listen. It feels more like a highly anticipated big occasion that way. A feeling that I had begun to miss in recent years with postings of early songs releases and album samples that are so common these days.
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
Monday, February 20, 2017
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Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues: Live at the Scholar Coffeehouse. On the Oblivion Recording Company label. From 1969. Found today at my old rec...
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'Floating' by Warren Bernhardt. From 1979, on vinyl. I read yesterday, that Warren Bernhardt had passed away a few days ago at 82 ye...
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Peter Gabriel - i/o. It's on order but won't arrive for a few more days. I'm considering taking the day off from work. I used to...
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