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 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 read that on this date in 1998 – The charter class was inducted into the National Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame. The artist included: Grandpa Jones, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Ike Everly, Kennedy Jones, Arnold Shultz, Lightnin’ Chance, Mose Rager and Laverda Rager. So I surfed over to the National Thumb [...]
OK so like a true junkie who can’t get enough of the drug, I went searching for new New Age music at lunchtime today! Somehow, and I forget how, I ended up at Echoes.org, I used to listen to Echoes with John Deliberto on WXPN a lot and now most times I forget that it [...]
So the day before yesterday, I was listening to straight acoustic guitar, some with a folk leanings. But yesterday I changed it up slightly, and move to Nuevo Flamenco and the guitar stylings of Armik! I saw earlier in the day, that Armik had released a new album titled Reflections and having enjoyed some of [...]
So this morning I started ny musical day with Pandora and had it set to play some classical music, but the second song that came on was an acoustic guitar piece from Michael Mucklow, which took me into the world of acoustic guitar. Some of my favorite acoustic guitarists include: Alex DeGrassi, Brooks Williams, and [...]
A little New Age to take us into the night…….in honor of Newt, Jesse Cook’s “Closer to Madness”
So last night after writing about Bill Morrissey’s album Songs of Mississippi John Hurt . I decided to listen to the real thing and listened to Mississippi John Hurt Liveon my shopping trip to Target. I love John Hurt’s songs and there’s some good ones on this album including: “Ain’t Nobody’s Business”, “Avalon, My Home [...]
So yesterday I explored the Folk DJ Chart from the top down. I listened to the top two albums Geof Bartley’s album Put the Big Stone Down which occupied the top spot and Abigail Washburn’s City of Refuge at number two. I skipped the two albums tied for third Jonathan Byrd’s Cackalack and The Honeydew [...]
Today has been a very eclectic musical day. It started with a need to listen to some music without words since I was listening while writing. So I started with some acoustic guitar. The other night I downloaded one of my favorite acoustic guitarists and folksinger Brooks Williams new album Baby O!. When reading his [...]
