Lance

[This message was edited by Lance A. Akridge on MONDAY 19 March 2001 at 00:59.]

John

I am a big fan of Patricia Barber, BB King etc...
I am the only music lover that I know and therefore need help from my forum friends to broaden my narrow music library.

Lance

Here are three of my favourite folk-pop recordings from the past years (good recordings, good vocals):

McKinley: Big Top Shop Talk (one of the best albums I own)
Patty Larkin: Regrooving the Dream
Jonatha Brooke: 10-Cent Wings

Thomas

Without your suggestions I would have to guess what new music to buy. I am excited to have new artists to investigate! Thank you very much.

Lance

In the R'n'B vein there's AudioQuest's recording of Terry Evans - Putting it Down.

One I particularly like for it's ferocious swing is a recent disc called 'Roy Haynes Trio'. The recorded quality makes me wonder why I still like LPs

Peter

Thanks, I am on my way to the music shop. Please keep the great music edeas comming.

Lance

A couple suggestions--

Diana Krall (surprised no one suggested her yet)
Lyle Lovett (ditto; try Joshua Judges Ruth, Road to Ensenada, Step Inside This House)
Ben Harper (Will to Live, Burn to Shine)
Keb Mo (The Door)
Lou Reed (New York; Magic and Loss)
Greg Brown (The Poet Game)
John Hiatt (Perfectly Good Guitar)

Cheers and good hunting !

Bob

Ride the Light !

Eric Bibb's newer stuff is pretty good, but do what you can to get his older stuff on Opus 3 vinyl, such as "River Road", "Golden Apples of the Sun" and "E. Bibb and Friends". They're out of print but Opus 3 still has them in stock, along with Turnipseed Records and May Audio Marketing.

Doug MacLeod has gotten some bad press here due to Audioquest Records' weenieism on recording techniques, but his albums are very good. "Come to Find" and "You can't Take my Blues" are good examples.

Finally, I'd like to recommend Robert Lucas' "Usin' Man Blues". He's another Audioquest artist where the production weenieism didn't get in the way of the music. "Built for Comfort" is pretty good also.

Cheers

Keith.

Thanks, I'll find and purchase your suggestions.

Lance

Patricia Barber...oh you've got those.

Angel - Spirit (Fabulous folksy songs and better recorded than her first album thankfully)

Dido - No Angel (I really like this.)

David Gray - White Ladder (I really like this and I don't usually go for male vocals.)

Carol Kidd - Nice Work (her best album in my view, and beautifully recorded too)

Billie Holliday - Songs for Distingue Lovers

Eva Cassidy - Time after Time

Regards,
Frank.

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I could use some help discovering well recorded music with great vocals. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

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I will add John Lee Hooker's 'The real folk blues' to the list - the Alto Analogue 180 gram repress of this album is stunning. This is a excellent recording of JLH fronting a really tight blues combo at pretty much his peak around 1966. Top quality stuff, none of the sanitised blandness that characterises so much current blues.

I second Frank's recommendation of Billy Holiday's 'Songs for Distingue Lovers', and would add 'Lady sings the blues' (vintage recording, but stunning music with total conviction), and 'Lady in satin' which is also excellent. Both these are available on vinyl from Classic Records, which judging by the quality of my copy of 'Songs for Distingue Lovers' are definitely worth the asking price.

Tony.

Couldn't recommend which one because each album means a different thing to each phase of mi life'
I have grown up with this guy ever since I first saw him on the OGWT wearing that hat full of fishing flies (like the old colonel from Mash?)

Mad but Good.

P.

Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity
The Roches - Keep on Doing

If you want male singers go for some good ones. Other Island label acts of the same period include;
Nick Drake; anything is o.k.
John Martin; around Solid Air is a good place to start.