Sooner and Later

Jazz from the ECM Records label. A piano trio with the 'out-to-sea' (my term) double bass sound that I love.

Contemporary Jazz sounds with ECM signature explorations of the edges.

Flashback Playlist

An imagined playlist that I might have been listening to on this day in 1974. Maybe a potential mix-tape made for a girl I met that summer. My 'reasons to believe.' I was a three or four year veteran of record collecting by then. The year of being eighteen years old. Graduating from high school. Old friends suddenly going off in different directions. My first summer job, first time being away from home and living with my aunt and uncle on the Oregon Coast ..... Going off to college .... Falling in love and having my heart broken. Quite a bit of sudden transition in a period of a few months for a unsuspecting and unprepared teenager. A crash course introduction to advanced life lessons!! Bittersweet days, now somewhat scary to reflect upon. I wouldn't accept money to do it all again. Music was needed to help a shy and geeky kid get through it all.

• Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile With Those Memphis Blues Again .... I loved how Dylan would write songs with what seemed like an infinite number of verses and words.
• Cat Stevens - Father and Son
• Jackson Browne - Rock Me On the Water .... I've always thought of this as a gospel song. Probably because of the imagery it sends out. 
• Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
• James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon .... I played this almost every damn night that summer. It must have been saying something to me!!
• The Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
• Poco - A Good Feeling to Know
• Pink Floyd - Us and Them
• Arlo Guthrie - Shackles and Chains .... About as 'Country' as I ever got. 
• Carole King - Come Down Easy
• Country Joe McDonald - Drugstore Truck Drving Man .... From the Woodstock soundtrack. For some reason I've always associated it with Ronald Reagan. Maybe there's something in the introduction to the song?
• The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
• Gordon Lightfoot - Circle of Steel .... I've always felt this as a winter song. Chills and lonely. It just has that 'feel' to it in my mind. 

The Sadies - Northern Passages

The Sadies are a "Indie Rock" band from Canada. Their tenth record but I'm just now discovering their sounds. My current album of the year for 2017.

It feels like there's something from a forgotten past life lurking somewhere in the background on several of these songs. Then followed by a more traditional rocker.

I hadn't listened since my initial experience when it came out in February. The disc has been loaded on my cd player since then and suddenly started playing today .... with each song I was asking myself, "What the hell is this?" I had to eject the disc to learn the answer. Sometimes the sudden spontaneous accidental second listen, six months after the first, is the one that reveals the most. You have no expectations and the sounds just strike you more clearly.