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 ....
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Seven Last Words
I recently discovered this great independent record label, based in Minneapolis, Shifting Paradigm Records, and from what I can tell, releas...
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The Kenny Drew Trio - 'If You Could See Me Now' From 1976 on vinyl. Piano jazz. Browsing the bins today and came across this. The gu...
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New vinyl titled, 'Terrain' from Portico Quartet. Discovered this group about a year ago while searching for new directions in jazz....
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I had no idea. A total surprise to discover a new Little Feat album. Released this year on their Hot Tomato record label. I've been a h...

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