Vinyl Playlist, The Next Night

More vinyl playlist mania for a late Saturday night on my 62nd January of life ..... About fifty-five of those years listening to music. I don't recall the first seven years too clearly.

• John Prine - Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard (1975)
• Steve Goodman - The Dutchman (1973)
• Ralph McTell - Streets of London (1975)
• Peter Himmelman - Salt and Ashes (1987)
• Tim Hardin - Lady Came From Baltimore (1967)
• Tim Moore - A Fool Like You / Second Avenue (1975) ..... "If a fool like you could listen to a fool like me ....."
• Meisburg & Walters - Love's A Easy Song (1977)
• Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes ..... Sandy Denny's voice!!

Vinyl Playlist

No theme. No specific genre. Hoping around. Going wherever I'm led. This playlist will be populated primarily (if not totally) by songs, pre-1990, which is when I gave up the good fight and made the soul draining leap and transition from vinyl records to compact discs. It was probably twenty years later before returning to my vinyl roots.

• Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street & Waiting For the Day (1978) ….. When I bought the album it was for the song, Baker Street which was a big radio hit back then and which I listened to exclusively. It wasn't until years later when I discovered how great the rest of the album is.
• China Crisis - You Did Cut Me (1985) ….. Heard this on the radio and learned of some connection to one or both central members of Steely Dan, which for the life of me I now can not recall.
• John Hiatt - Learning How to Love You (1987) ….. Discovering a great songwriter!! Destroying my previous erroneous preconception that John Hiatt was a punk rocker.  
• John Hiatt - Drive South & Slow Turning (1988) ….. What was this? A musician releasing records in back-to-back years? Until then it seemed like all my favorites had three or four years between releases. His performance of Slow Turning on Saturday Nite Live was a great moment!! I've always loved his line: "Now I'm in my car, I got the radio on, and I'm yelling at the kids in the back seat 'Cause they're bangin' like Charlie Watts."

John Hiatt on David Letterman's program playing Slow turning. And that guy in the background playing slide guitar would years later become a favorite ….. Sonny Landreth!!!

• Jackson Browne - Walking Slow (1974) ….. Freshman year and I'm "Walking Slow down the avenue" in front of my dorm (Sacket Hall) at Oregon State University and the guy on my floor across the hall and down a few doors from me, who I had seen around but hadn't formally met yet, had his speakers in his window playing Walking Slow with the volume turned way up. I raced upstairs, overcame my shyness, knocked on his door introduced myself and was invited in. A fellow JB fan!!
• Noel Pointer - Night Song (1977) ….. Jazz violinist. Initially heard late one night on a Portland's, KINK radio program called "Lights Out." Pretty sure that I had to travel to Portland to find the record. 
• Van Morrison - Wavelength & Kingdom Hall (1978) …… An Oregon evening. Radio in the garage. Raining outside. Soaking wet and shooting hoops in the driveway while Wavelength is playing. My first Van on vinyl purchase. Had some catching up to do.
• Leo Kottke - Vaseline Machine Gun (1969) ….. Saw him in concert in Corvallis. It sounded like there were two or three guitarists on stage. He was all alone!!!
• Phil Ochs - Outside Of a Small Circle of Friends (1967) ….. Awake late at night while mom, dad and siblings slept. Listening to a transistor radio. I didn't grasp at the time what the lyrics were saying. 

Here Is What Is

I love when music arrives in my mailbox!! I'm generally in highly anticipatory mode just moments after ordering. Then when it's delivered, I get all giddy with happiness.

Daniel Lanois - "Here Is What Is"

I've always enjoyed his ideas and contributions to other people's records. Specifically as producer on U2's recordings. But he also makes his own music!!!

I especially love the guitar work on the song, "Duo Glide."

Safe As Milk

A recent (three days ago) vinyl find. A reissue of the original from 1967 yet new sounds to my ears. Psychedelic and Blues Rock. Captain Beefheart was Don Van Vliet.

It boggles my mind to think these sounds were made over half a century ago.

Ry Cooder was a guitar player for Captain Beefheart. But this sounds nothing like modern day Ry Cooder. Nor 1970's Ry Cooder.

I wouldn't say the music sounds "Safe As Milk."

I've developed a liking in the past two or three years for 1960's Psychedelic Rock and I think of these records from that era as being treasured and valuable historical documents. It would be wrong to let any sounds fade away.

OPB Music Playlist

Late night, because I'm dead freaking tired but don't want to go to bed yet and would rather listen to the radio playlist as spun by DJ Doug .....

• The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song *****
• David Byrne - Good and Evil
• Eels - Prizefighter
• Pond - Elegant Design
• George Harrison - Any Road ..... I've been hopelessly in love for the longest time with the sound of a slide guitar and George's playing has an especially beautiful tone.
• Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
• U.S. Girls - Velvet 4 Sale
• Ty Segall - Diversion
• My Morning Jacket - All the Best
• Death Songs - Let This Body Go ..... I generally avoid anything with the word, "death" in the title.
• TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
• Spindrift - The Legend of God's Gun ..... Has a little bit of a 1960's Surf Rock meets Garage Rock with narration sound. I'm thinking this would be a cool addition to the vinyl collection.
• Aesop Rock and TOBACCO - Corn Maze ..... Hip Hop
• Here We Go Magic - Hard To Be Close
• Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman ..... Heard this song dozens of times over the years but never knew its name. 
• Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23

Once I start listening I often have issues of separation and abandonment with turning off the music for concepts like getting sleep. The inner voices keep resolving: "Just one more." 

• Wye Oak - Symmetry
• Clinic - The Second Line

I fell asleep sitting at my desk with the lights turned down low and missed a few songs. Back now to the mystic fuzzy world of the barely awake aging dude of the late night!!

• Richard Swift - Lady Luck
• Daniel Lanois - Where Will I Be? ***** ..... (A sudden visit to Amazon to order the album.)
• Paul Simon - I Know What I Know
• Floating Action - Dying Punch ..... Reminding of David Lindley and Wally Ingram recordings.
• Desaparecidos - City on the Hill
• Yeasayer - I Remember