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Added to iPod

June 9, 2008 | Filed Under Music | No Comments

Nothing earth-shattering – just raiding the larder at home for music I forgot.

Frank Sinatra – “Live at the Sands (w/Count Basie)” One of the best live albums and a perfect document of the man and his times.
Fairport Convention – “Meet On The Ledge” This is a two disc ‘best of’ collection from the years of Ian Matthews, Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, with some later tracks and found items.
The Beatles – “The White Album”
Jazz At The Philharmonic – “The First Concert”
Lamb – “Fear of Fours”
Throwing Muses – Self-titled first album. The Boston roots are showing again…
The Herbaliser – “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
Various Artists – “Live At The Roxy (Jan-Apr 77)” I think they had just given the name ‘punk’ to the loud and strange looking bands that played this London club. The Adverts, X-Ray Specs, Wire and others are captured here in their infancy. But what makes this a great CD is the noise. You get all the sounds of a drunken night of rebellious music in a small club. Glasses break, fights break out, people yell over the band – it’s more like a documentary. Punk music in its natural habitat.
Rancid – “Indestructible”
Joni Mitchell – “Ladies Of The Canyon”
Yo Lo Tengo – “Painful”
G Love & Special Sauce – “Yeah, It’s That Easy”
John Lee Hooker – “The 1965 London Sessions” The album was one of the many brilliant jazz/blues records that lived on the greatest jukebox in NYC. Once upon a time, real people lived in New York and you could often sit and have a beer with them in the afternoons at Rudy’s on 9th Avenue off 43rd. A pitcher was five bucks, the dogs were free and the music was sublime. This world is killing off my favorite dive bars….