Monday, February 20, 2017

New Releases

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.




Looking North

Another from the recent Shifting Paradigm Records discoveries. 'Looking North' by Bryan Nichols. Released in 2016. Solo jazz piano a...