The 6 CDs in my car at the moment...
...are all new, past couple of weeks. Which is remarkable, because I haven't been buying many lately. Not because I download everything, but because there just hasn't been anything of note released, much, and it's much harder for someone with my specialist tastes to find out about new stuff. CD Now used to have the most straightforward system, but since being purchyased by Amazon the whole system has fallen apart. And there just isn't anybody I trust when it comes to reviews and stuff, because there isn't anybody out there, far as I can tell, who goes for quite the same mixture of stuff as I do.
Not to sound superior, but most people are either into that which I consider worthy-but-dull (all that alt.country stuff) or they like commercial male vocal things. It's a sad fact that, bar a briefly fashionable period 1992-95, women in country music get short shrift from radio stations, on-line reviewers, and their own record companies.
Anyway. I have the following on multi-disc shuffle play at the moment:
The Allman Bros compo I'm quite pleased with. It was only 7 quid, but includes all the tracks I would have included, as previously noted.
The Gretchen Peters record probably qualifies as worthy-but-dull, or will soon (like MCC). She's a songwriter, and gets her stuff done by major artists like Suzy Bogguss (well, she was major once), Patty Loveless, and Lee Ann Womack. Some of the stuff is unfamiliar, but there are tracks I already own by other people. It's always interesting to hear her own, low-key take on things, though being low key they don't have quite the impact of the more commercial versions. She is a good songwriter, though, with a tendency towards story telling.
This is also true of Carolyn Dawn Johnson, another songwriter with a new record out. Again, she's written hits for others, but benefits herself from being fairly attractive, blonde, and able to sing her own songs quite well. Her song, "Georgia" on her first record was an instant classic.
This one features more of the same; good songs, commercially produced, with some nice musicianship (all the usual suspects are here, and Dan Huff produces). I suspect the presence of a Variax where the sleeve says, "Sitar," but I may be wrong. I'd say that the strength of CDJ is that I'll still be playing this in a year's time, but ask me in a year's time.
Not to sound superior, but most people are either into that which I consider worthy-but-dull (all that alt.country stuff) or they like commercial male vocal things. It's a sad fact that, bar a briefly fashionable period 1992-95, women in country music get short shrift from radio stations, on-line reviewers, and their own record companies.
Anyway. I have the following on multi-disc shuffle play at the moment:
- Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Dress Rehearsal
- Brad Paisley - Part II
- Gretchen Peters - Gretchen Peters
- Allison Moorer - The Duel
- Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here and Gone
- Allman Brothers - Classic (Universal Masters Collection)
The Allman Bros compo I'm quite pleased with. It was only 7 quid, but includes all the tracks I would have included, as previously noted.
The Gretchen Peters record probably qualifies as worthy-but-dull, or will soon (like MCC). She's a songwriter, and gets her stuff done by major artists like Suzy Bogguss (well, she was major once), Patty Loveless, and Lee Ann Womack. Some of the stuff is unfamiliar, but there are tracks I already own by other people. It's always interesting to hear her own, low-key take on things, though being low key they don't have quite the impact of the more commercial versions. She is a good songwriter, though, with a tendency towards story telling.
This is also true of Carolyn Dawn Johnson, another songwriter with a new record out. Again, she's written hits for others, but benefits herself from being fairly attractive, blonde, and able to sing her own songs quite well. Her song, "Georgia" on her first record was an instant classic.
This one features more of the same; good songs, commercially produced, with some nice musicianship (all the usual suspects are here, and Dan Huff produces). I suspect the presence of a Variax where the sleeve says, "Sitar," but I may be wrong. I'd say that the strength of CDJ is that I'll still be playing this in a year's time, but ask me in a year's time.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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