In 1965 two young film students at the University of California in Los Angeles. In the summer after their graduation, the pianist talked the poet into forming a band and The Doors were formed. The pianist was Ray Manzarek and the vocalist was Jim Morrison. Ray and Jim quickly added drummer John Densmore and guitarist [...]
So over the last few days I have been listening to the album Mosaic from the guitar duo of Dan Young and Lawson Rollins. The album is a fantastic collection of their own compositions, which come from different styles including: salsa music, Latin jazz, blues, samba, bossa nova, flamenco, and classical styles. Resulting in a [...]
So over the last couple of days I’ve listened to two instrumental albums from very different genres. First, I listened to the new album Walk Along John from the impeccable Canadian mandolin player John Reischman, then today, I listened to the guitar work of Joe Satriani, from his latest release Unstoppable Momentum both were really good [...]
So I put the iPod on random shuffle on the way to and from work at Target today and here’s the six songs that I heard! 1. “I Won’t Do That” – Joe Louis Walker – Hellfire – Hellfire was one of my favorite blues albums from last year just an all around good album! [...]
Yesterday, on my way back from South Brunswick, NJ I took a little side trip to Princeton and spent a little more of my gift certificates from Christmas!! I found six albums. I won’t say how much I paid for all six, other than it was less than the price of one CD! Here they [...]
So I continued my exploration of the Echoes Top 25 Albums for April 2013 and stopped at Number 6 William Tyler’s album Impossible Truth Tyler is an accomplished young Nashville guitarist and this is a great, distinctive and original sounding album!! Today the music was just basically background music while I was working, but I [...]
So this morning I was scouting out new New Age music at the Echoes website. I looked at the Top 25 albums for April and decided to give the album at Number 2 a listen, Stories From Elsewhere by Rhian Sheehan, It was a good choice! The album was labeled as Electronica/Dance at Mog, but I [...]
A while back when I was listening to Jesse Cook and exploring flamenco guitarist, i listened to the music of Johannes Linstead. I have heard Johannes’ music before and enjoyed it but for some reasons none of his albums appear in my library and he is not one of the guitarist that I listen to [...]
So yesterday I was thinking about being ordinary. The first song wanted to listen to “Ordinary Town” from Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. So I scrolled down through the list of songs on the iPod until I got to it. Along the way, I must have passed thirty songs that had the word One in [...]
So this morning let’s look back at the albums that I listened to and wrote about last week. Also I’ll list some of the ones that I listened to and haven’t written about, some of which I won’t write about! See I really only try to write about the albums and music that I like! [...]
