Album of the day

[BudreauReye]

 

[BudreauReye]

some covers are better than others ...





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOOo-R6kg8

 

[BudreauReye]

If I were not happily married, I would conk that guy on the head and take that woman for my own self.  I guess me and Prez Carter done lusted in our own hearts!  Just amazing music!

 

[Aaron Carrara]

Listened to this album tonight for the first time in a long time.  Van has a lot of good albums but the mix of genres on Hymns to the Silence is incredible.  Amazing album.

 

[BudreauReye]

Only one more ...

 

[BudreauReye]

Aaron Carerra,  "Hymns to the Silence" is a much under appreciated album.  Lot of spirituality going on there.  Being a lot Scotts Irish, myself, I gotta say that I love it.  Here is one of my favorite Irish bands, Clannad, with a guest appearance by Bono ...

 

[BudreauReye]

And this ...





And then there is this ... and we think football is tough ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tiKM4fxY1U

 

[Duke C #11]

Charley Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Theloneous Monk  and Buddy Rich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EFAX3DOgnQ&list=PL74A53EC745DD9633

 

[Duke C #11]

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnT5YAdpWJA

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUP_P8ds0iU

 

[Duke C #11]

 

[Aaron Carrara]

Duke C - you have great musical taste (and varied too).  The Saxophone Colossus album is one of my top 5 jazz albums of all time (St. Thomas kills it) along with John Coltrane's Blue Train, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus' Ah Um and any early Charlie Parker albums.

Coltrane's Blue Train is by far the best.

 

[Aaron Carrara]

And then I can flip on a switch!

The best modern band around today IMO is The National.

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1szgbHU6ZA

 

[BudreauReye]

And then I can flip on a switch!

The best modern band around today IMO is The National.

Not quibbling with your assessment of The National.  I like them.  It is just that every time I decide anybody is the best of anything, the next day, I think, except, maybe, for ...   Such assertions, for me at least, are confounding conundrums!  

I really like their lead singer.  It is not often that a band relies on someone with such a low timbre to his voice and, sometimes such a deadpan delivery.  It really helps with the minor key that most of their songs seem to have.  I also like their lyrics, well written with enough story line to hold together, yet enough ambiguity to surprise you and pull you back in when you lose the lyrics for the music.

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAb4zL6fT9E

 

[BudreauReye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAb4zL6fT9E

Good one!

 

[Duke C #11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Agp9mUG-M

 

[Duke C #11]