Sometimes you walk into the little "Friends" shop inside the local public library and they have something cool available to take home at minimal cost. I've found previously owned books, music, postage stamps, art prints and magazines there. Even came across baseball cards on one occasion.
This recording is from 1995. The Kronos Quartet are two violins, a viola and a cello and always choosing interesting pieces of music to perform. No orchestra or voices needed here.
I don't know if this is best called, Modern Classical, Contemporary Classical or Chamber Music. Philip Glass is a modern composer.
Following completion of The Kronos Quartet recording, the compact disc player transitioned to this previously loaded disc from one of my favorite bands, Son Volt. "Notes of Blue" from last year.
Americana or Alternative Country-Rock.
I would have never thought of playing these two recordings back-to-back but for this place and time, it works!!
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 ....
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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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