Sure, Kent. I ordered the collection used from Amazon sellers, a little pricey as you said but only a few dollars more than buying the 3 CDs I don't have (and know I must have) individually.

Conversation here about an hour ago:

Me [holding out Pink Moon CD]: Have you ever heard this guy Nick Drake? He died back in 1972 but I only really discovered his music last week.

son Steve: No, what kind of music is it?

Me: It's just him and his guitar on this album, but he's amazing!

Steve: Okay, I'll listen to it now.

[short interlude after which the song Pink Moon is heard from Steve's room]

Steve [emerging from room]: Yeah this guy is f***ing great*, one of his songs is in Garden State!


I'm watching a DVD with a couple of BBC specials about his life and career someone was kind enough to send me now.


* his mother and I didn't raise him to talk like this, btw

Susan Tedeschi- Hope and Desire
Derek Trucks Band- Songlines

Mason Jennings- Boneclouds (local Twin City musician, national release)
Tim Easton- Ammunition (Tift Merritt appears on one cut as does Lucinda Williams)

Now Kent you know I can't resist a new Tim Easton album, especially with those two guests on it!

One of my PattyPals® is a huge Mason Jennings fan, but for some reason I wasn't all that thrilled with the compilation she sent me.

Miranda Lee Richards arrived here a few days ago btw (not Miranda Lee herself, sadly, but her album). She has a lovely voice, but I'd have to say most of her album is pretty unimpressive.

Nick Drake's Fruit Tree collection arrived yesterday. Since I've spent most of the past two days sick in bed, I've had some time to listen to it. I would definitely recommend Time of No Reply to anyone who already has his three official releases. It has a number of excellent and unique songs on it, and even the not-so-great ones feature Nick's sensational guitar playing. The tracks are mostly just voice and guitar, which is fine by me. However, the more recent release Made to Love Magic has some of the same tracks plus a couple of other unreleased songs and a cool acoustic version of River Man, and can be downloaded from iTunes for only $8. Unfortunately the latter release also features orchestral arrangements recorded in 2003 and dubbed onto Time of No Reply and I Was Made to Love Magic. Drake obviously never heard these arrangements, and I'm not sure he would have approved of them (I prefer the acoustic versions myself).

For anyone considering springing for the out-of-print Fruit Tree boxed set: The booklet is very nice, but be advised these are NOT the remastered versions of the albums. The remastered Pink Moon I bought initially sounds vastly better than the original transfer in this set, so I'll most likely be downloading the remastered versions of his first two albums from iTunes - the CDs are pretty pricey at $19 each from Amazon.

It's a joy finally getting to know this guy's work, he really was a musical genius.

A Blue Note/Verve type outing:

Donald Byrd-Slow Drag(RVG remaster)
Blue Mitchell-The Thing To Do(RVG remaster)
Jimmy Smith-Midnight Special
Duke Ellington-Soul Call

My name is Jim and I am a CD addict.




Allright CHK. The ball is in your court

Ane Brun- A Temporary Dive
James Yorkston and The Athletes- Just Beyond The River

and off to Chi-town and vicinity on Saturday- look out record stores, I'm on my way

kent

Happy hunting Kent.

Mike Birbiglia - Two Drink Mike (comedy - 2 dorky thumbs up)

Glen Phillips - Mr. Lemons (i've had it two days and I love it)

my first impression of this is that it is truly an amazing record. this may actually bump "fox confessor" out of my cd player for a day or two...


&


i'm really looking forward to giving these two a listen tonight...

I've been hearing good things about all three of those. Happy listening!

Hey Keith, try out Half.com:
http://product.half.ebay.com/Pink-Moon-Rem...nfoQQprZ3090307

and:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=4887519187

Tres Chicas - Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl

The Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way

Cher

well I'm back from Chi-town
and the damage was done and the damage was fun
2 stores in Rockford and 5 in Chicago- even bringing a bag of CDs to the OtR/Hem concert, because of a record store a block away from the venue. And I found a ton of goodies-
Denise James- Promises
Jason Nesmith- Potrait (yes he is Michael Nesmith's son)
Spokane- Leisure and Other Songs
Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts- Beneathe the Country Underdog (she is backing vocals for Neko Case on the tour)
Listing Ship- Time to Dream
Sugarplum Fairies-Country International Records
Lewis and Clarke- Bright Light EP
Rachel Cantu- Run All Night
Lovespirals- Free and Easy
The Machine in the Garden-One Winter's Night
Iodine- Maximum Joy- (Low like)
Codeine- Barely Real (also Low like)
Jon Rauhouse- Steel Guitar Rodeo (he's the pedal steel guy on Neko Case's tour)
so that was it- 7 stores 13 CD's- a bunch lopped off my 'list', and most were used except 2, (and some of these will make their way onto my mixes)
and then the wonderful concert to top it all off.
what a weekend

Virgin on Michigan & Grand is one of my personal favs, but I dig serveral others within walking distance of the House of Blues as well. Virgin's import section always hurts me... Another cool one is Rock Records on Washington.

Lately the only stuff I've been compelled to buy has been from the import section. I have a hard time even looking at it anymore, it makes me so frustrated that none of that stuff gets released here.

I just had a conversation yesterday on imports vs. US labels with a music store manager here in the 'Ville. Blue Note is really dropping the ball on re releasing/remastering a lot of old albums/stock. The Japanese have often remastered old Blue Note albums twice by the time Blue Note in the US releases the album remastered. I just hate paying $25-30 bucks per CD for a Japanese album when I could potentially get it for $11.99 here in the States. Not to mention I"m getting pretty pissed off at EMI, who bought Blue Note a couple of years ago and is part of the Sony family. Every new Blue Note CD has some crap about "We thank you for buying this record. Please do not upload this or copy this disc... blah blah blah". I bought the dang album already, quit insulting me. It almost makes me WANT to revert to my old pirate ways. Arrrrrgh mateys.

I never even made it to the import section in Virgin....the damage would've been devastating then...whew.
kent

Mojave 3- Puzzles Like You

Their 1st new one in almost 3 years

Hem's "Eveningland", autographed by the 6 of 'em.

Paul Simon: Surprise

traded in 3 new CD's that I were mailed to me from sponsoring a radio station. I can't even recall the name of one of them, but the other 2 were James Hunter and Flaming Lips and I didn't like those 3.

Have heard the first few songs of the Surprise CD and I like it.

Zero 7- 'Garden'
with a little Sia and Jose Gonzalez on it-

I had to choose between this one, the new Camera Obscura, and the new Juana Molina.
Maybe tomorrow

oh, dude, go spend some saturday CD money on that Camera Obscura and let me know what you think (so I know whether to spend MY saturday CD money on it as well)!

Jon Auer - Songs From The Year Of Our Demise

Well this weekend I was going for the Guiness Book of World Records, and came close.
All told I got 22 CD's on Saturday. Of course your'e thinking, this guy is crazy, well yes I am.
Anyway of the 22, 17 were .95 cents apiece, they were in a new bin that was just put out, and most were '06 releases of a bunch of nobodies I've never heard. I just went by the promo sticker on the front that talked about the artist and who they compared to. If any mention of Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Iron and Wine, etc showed up I put it in the basket. So I figured, for 95 cents each, I've got to find a few that would make it worth it, all for a little more than the price of 1 CD. Amongst the finds were Starflyer 59 and the Czars, and I did find at least 8 CD's in the bins that I had previosly purchased for well over that less than a buck price. Grrrrrrr.
I also got the 2 new ones by Camera Obscura (Lets Get out of This Country) and the Handsome Family.
The rest were used by Vic Chesnutt, a single by Grant McLennan, and Por Vida (Alejandro Escovedo).
So thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

Brook- The Camera Obscura is stellar, well worth buying. If you like Belle and Sebastian at all, this one is a must.

Ok CD addict Yojimbo, now's the time to tell us about your weekend of music.
BTW when is the time CD Addicts Anonymous meets again? See you there.

kent

ed. b/c spelling

Hmm lemme see if I can remember all of them.
Dizzy Gillespie-Sittin' In(24bit Verve remaster)
Wayne Shorter-The All Seeing Eye(24bit RVG remaster)
Sonic Youth-Sonic Youth
Zoot Sims and Bob Brookmeyer-Morning Fun
Dolo Coker-California Hard

And from this guy who was selling off 1200+ LP's and CD's to pay for his wedding(He was "paring" down from 10,000+ LP's):
Cowboy Junkies-200 More Miles(And no I didn't have it before)
Count Basie-Chairman of the Board
Count Basie and Duke Ellington-The First Time! The Count Meets the Duke!
Duke Ellington-Brown, Black and Beige
Gerry Mulligan-Live in Paris at the Salle Pleyel
Jimmy Smith-Hoochie Coochie Man
Charlie Parker-The Genius of Charlie Parker Vol 2

I think that's it, though I keep feeling like I"m missing one.
Then again, I always feel like I"m missing CD's, hehehe.

When/where do you want to get together Kent? It has to be someplace cheap. I"m reduced to eating tuna and Ramen this week due to the above purchases.

My name is Jim, and I am a CD addict
CDaholics Anonymous™

i like it

Cheesehead Kent™ proud member of CDaholics Anonymous™

and sadly, because i love this woman, her voice and her previous work, it does nothing for me.

You know, this is the first Allison Moorer album I've listened to/bought, and it didn't rattle my cage at all. Maybe with some more listens.
kent

Sara Hickman- Motherlode

A new 2-CD set from her, whom I first heard on Jeanne's April 2006 Monthly Mix.
Thanks, Jeanne

Plus she has help on the CDs from Kelly Willis, Shawn Colvin, Jimmy LaFave, and Ruthie Foster, and includes covers of Mothers Little Helper (the Stones), and Mad World (Tears for Fears) among others.
Just getting to listening to it right now.

Apparently there are themes to each CD- as allmusic.com writes-
.

I'll let you know about it
kent

this is a damn fine, if not near brilliant record. the playing is just amazing, virtually perfect. from the first song, the alt-country rockish julie miller penned "the river's gonna run," (featuring buddy miller and emmylou harris), it just grabs you and does't let go. "the river's gonna run", the more traditional "river take me" and the truly amazing literal, hippy-trippy cover of "white bird" alone are worth the price of the cd (but the rest is very good too).

highly recommend this one.

I went into Best Buy today to see if they actually carried this one, and, as usual the guy goes- huh? who?
I will have it in my hands tomorrow.
Bill, that White Bird- is that the It's A Beautiful Day's song? Gawwd I love that song!
kent

yup. and it's amazing.

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I went into Best Buy today to see if they actually carried this one, and, as usual the guy goes- huh? who?
I will have it in my hands tomorrow.
Bill, that White Bird- is that the It's A Beautiful Day's song? Gawwd I love that song!
kent
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You should have messed with his mind and said "Hey, where is the new Tony Yayo album?" Try it next time and see the look on his face. Hehe.

Christophe Godin's Metal Kartoon
The Morglbl Trio - Bienvenue a Morglbl Land
The Morglbl Trio - The Morglbl Trio!!
Gno

Bought them all together.

I did get the new Sam Bush-Laps in Seven today.
White Bird is soooooo wonderful, as are the others.

What more fitting place to put my milestone 400th post than in this thread here.
kent

has anyone heard t-bone burnett's new one? i loved the last two.
just wondering,
d.

I haven't heard it yet, but I just placed an order for it no more than 10 minutes ago.

Yesterdays gets-

Kris Delmhorst- Strange Conversation

Tim O'Reagan- self titled
He's the drummer from the Jayhawks and this album is a very pleasant surprise.

kent

WOO HOO!!!
Permafrost just arrived at my door!
when I open this in a few months (or years) I'll let you know how it is...

I rarely find myself buying CD's (any guesses why?) but today The String Cheese Incident's "A String Cheese Incident" arrived:) I've gotten into hooping (Posty don't hoop), so it had to happen eventually.
~m

It's been a few years since I've heard it but I remember there being some good stuff on that disc.

I wish I could go back and see them in '97 or '98...the last time I saw them was 2002 and it was extremely underwhelming...I don't think they adapted to the bigger venues as well as Phish did in the mid-90's, but that's just me.

I spent a lot of time July 1-3 downtown at the annual Cityfolk festival, and purchased the following cds:

Aurelio Martinez -- Garifuna Soul (Guitar music from Belize)
Les Yeux Noirs -- Balamouk (French Gypsy Klezmer)
Inca Son -- Ascope, Tierra Del Amanecer (Traditional Peruvian music)

I'm currently uploading a web page with my pictures from the weekend, so you can see some of what I saw.

(Pictures are now up here: http://www.jeannesphotos.com/cityfolk2006/ -- Sunset & fireworks are on the second page.)

a couple of new ones I just got

Martha Berner- This Side of Yesterday
The Bittersweets- The Life You Always Wanted

How fun is that?? I can't tell what is on both sides of Van Morrison!
My latest CD purchase is American V- Johnny Cash. Lovin' it...

on the left of van is allison moorer's new "getting somewhere," (which sadly, hasn't "gotten anywhere" with me) not sure what's on the right side...

The one to the right of Van Morrison-
that looks like Kris Delmhorst's new Cd- Strange Conversation
have you heard her before Keith?,
I just got that a week or 2 ago, first listen ok, second listen sounding better.
She's a Massachusetts singer I believe.

you made quite a run on the CD store there Keith
kent

Due to instant-first-listen-love:

- Donavon Frankenreiter Move by Yourself

Due to can't-stop-listening-to-snippets-guilty-pleasure-purchasing:

- The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers

Due to "I love my eff-ing comedy while driving..":

- Daniel Tosh True Stories I Made Up

Those are indeed the new albums from Allison Moorer and Kris Delmhorst (both of whom I'm seeing next week).