Ringing out the year about to expire, with a little Mule Variations by Tom Waits.
My introduction to Tom Waits may have been in 1977. My college roommate would play his Nighthawks At The Diner album. (Whenever he wasn't playing Todd Rundgren records). We had favorite lines of lyrics and spoken words from the record that we would go around quoting in our daily conversations whenever appropriate. We most likely stretched the meaning of "appropriate" a tiny bit back then.
Here I am now, almost forty years later, still enjoying his music.
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 ....
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Saturday Vinyl Finds
It would be kinda funny, if it wasn't sad in my eyes but for the records that I'm interested in, the used bookstore is turning out t...
-
Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites. An antique shop find on vinyl. Jazz pieces recorded in 1959 and the early 1970's. Three separate ...
-
New vinyl titled, 'Terrain' from Portico Quartet. Discovered this group about a year ago while searching for new directions in jazz....
-
A compilation from 2001 and Oxford American magazine. I think they would put out an annual collection of Southern music. I found two or thr...

No comments:
Post a Comment