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Guided By Voices - Strut Of Kings (2024)
What Are You Listening To? July 2024
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It’s good. And yes, Robert Pollard should put out records more frequently, instead of waiting every three months.
Ojai Sam
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Dugg Collins - Sounds Like Texas (2011)
I bought this one with no idea what it was, based solely on the Startex label's reputation for deep dish Texas music. Turns out that Dugg was a legendary platter spinner in Amarillo and elsewhere, becoming a member of the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame in 1996. Taking a quick look at the credits for Sounds Like Texas, I spotted three very familiar names: Bobby Flores on fiddle and guitar, Justin Trevino doubling as harmony vocalist and engineer
and Jim Loessberg playing steel and producing.
The results are as great as you would expect from this cast of legendary characters. Dugg turns his flawless tenor loose on 14 slices of pure Panhandle perfection. If you're going to take on classic material from the likes of Bob Wills, Floyd Tillman, Willie Nelson, Roger Miller and Bill Anderson, you better add something special or it's just another batch of ho hum covers. Collins channels Ray Price, Tommy Duncan and Johnny Bush (who adds harmony vocals) but is very much his own man.
Sadly, Dugg passed away in 2011 at age 67, a year to the day after Joyce, his beloved wife of 43 years. He left behind a small recorded legacy including this superb final outing.
abc7amarillo.com
I bought this one with no idea what it was, based solely on the Startex label's reputation for deep dish Texas music. Turns out that Dugg was a legendary platter spinner in Amarillo and elsewhere, becoming a member of the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame in 1996. Taking a quick look at the credits for Sounds Like Texas, I spotted three very familiar names: Bobby Flores on fiddle and guitar, Justin Trevino doubling as harmony vocalist and engineer
and Jim Loessberg playing steel and producing. The results are as great as you would expect from this cast of legendary characters. Dugg turns his flawless tenor loose on 14 slices of pure Panhandle perfection. If you're going to take on classic material from the likes of Bob Wills, Floyd Tillman, Willie Nelson, Roger Miller and Bill Anderson, you better add something special or it's just another batch of ho hum covers. Collins channels Ray Price, Tommy Duncan and Johnny Bush (who adds harmony vocals) but is very much his own man.
Sadly, Dugg passed away in 2011 at age 67, a year to the day after Joyce, his beloved wife of 43 years. He left behind a small recorded legacy including this superb final outing.
Legendary Amarillo broadcaster 'Dugg' Collins passes away
Country Music DJ Hall of Famer and Amarillo broadcaster "Dugg" Collins has passed away at the age of 67, on Tuesday, January 11th.
abc7amarillo.com
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The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968)
"The album that killed psychedelic rock."
"The album that killed psychedelic rock."
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Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (2008)
Ojai Sam
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Nathan Davis - Suite For Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1977)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
One of our best friends is a club DJ of many years. He and his wonderful wife came up to Ojai for dinner last night and he came bearing gifts: an armload of LP's. I picked this one at random, and found myself suddenly immersed in a beautiful spoken work tribute to Dr. King. According the liner notes, Nathan Davis is a both a musician and an educator: 180 compositions and album credits with Elvin Jones, Clark Terry and Richard Davis among many others, along with a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and graduate study at the Sorbonne,
The AMG review says it all:
Nathan Davis celebrates the life and impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. with music as profound and far-reaching as its subject, veering from bold electric jazz-funk to meditative interludes complete with poetic spoken word narration read by University of Pittsburgh professor Donald M. Henderson. With its large-scale supporting cast (including vocalist Brenda Joyce), vibrant horn arrangements, and unusual instrumentation, this is Davis' most ambitious and cinematic LP, operating on a canvas as vast as its creator's imagination.
:5.0 on the Sam-O-Meter.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
One of our best friends is a club DJ of many years. He and his wonderful wife came up to Ojai for dinner last night and he came bearing gifts: an armload of LP's. I picked this one at random, and found myself suddenly immersed in a beautiful spoken work tribute to Dr. King. According the liner notes, Nathan Davis is a both a musician and an educator: 180 compositions and album credits with Elvin Jones, Clark Terry and Richard Davis among many others, along with a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and graduate study at the Sorbonne,
The AMG review says it all:
Nathan Davis celebrates the life and impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. with music as profound and far-reaching as its subject, veering from bold electric jazz-funk to meditative interludes complete with poetic spoken word narration read by University of Pittsburgh professor Donald M. Henderson. With its large-scale supporting cast (including vocalist Brenda Joyce), vibrant horn arrangements, and unusual instrumentation, this is Davis' most ambitious and cinematic LP, operating on a canvas as vast as its creator's imagination.
:5.0 on the Sam-O-Meter.
Ojai Sam
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Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin State Opera Orchestra (Max von Schillings, cond.) - von Schillings: Das Hexenlied, Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (rec. 1929, 1933, Jube 2014)
In the continuum of German musical history, Max von Schillings (1868-1933) was a protege of Richard Strauss and a mentor to Wilhelm Furtwangler. "Das Hexenlied" ("the Witch's Song") is a spoken word melodrama von Schillings based on a 1902 poem. His reading of Beethoven's Third is full of old school vigor.
Max died six months after Hitler assumed power. Wiki alleges that he was an anti-semitic opponent of the Weimar Republic. However, they cite no authority other than the German Wikipedia article and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. My copy of the New Grove says nothing like that.
In the continuum of German musical history, Max von Schillings (1868-1933) was a protege of Richard Strauss and a mentor to Wilhelm Furtwangler. "Das Hexenlied" ("the Witch's Song") is a spoken word melodrama von Schillings based on a 1902 poem. His reading of Beethoven's Third is full of old school vigor.
Max died six months after Hitler assumed power. Wiki alleges that he was an anti-semitic opponent of the Weimar Republic. However, they cite no authority other than the German Wikipedia article and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. My copy of the New Grove says nothing like that.
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The Re-Stoned - Orange Session (2022)
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The Hill Billies - Trail of the Lonesome Pine (rec. 1934-1939, rel. 2002)
Lost in the Vault
Over the past few months I've been sorting out my music vault. Today I ran across a couple of boxes of CD's that somehow got buried when we moved here in the early 2000's. So I've decided to make them into an unintentional time capsule, spinning one occasionally at random.
Here's the first one. The Hill Billies were a British group that emulated the Western-style harmonies of The Sons of the Pioneers. This disc was released by The British Academy of Country Music, which is still in business. Rawther!
Lost in the Vault Over the past few months I've been sorting out my music vault. Today I ran across a couple of boxes of CD's that somehow got buried when we moved here in the early 2000's. So I've decided to make them into an unintentional time capsule, spinning one occasionally at random.
Here's the first one. The Hill Billies were a British group that emulated the Western-style harmonies of The Sons of the Pioneers. This disc was released by The British Academy of Country Music, which is still in business. Rawther!
Ojai Sam
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Troy Olsen - Living In Your World (2001)
Lost In The Vault
I have no recollection of buying this one, but I'm glad I did. It was produced for a tiny record label by former Blaster James Intveld, who employed two of Dwight Yoakam's sidemen along with steel wizard Jay Dee Mayness. To be sure, there is a hint of Dwight here, but Troy has the vocal chops to hold his own with the upbeat twang from that town south of Bakersfield. A few years later, Troy would sign with EMI Nashville but sank without a trace after one EP.
on the Sam-O-Meter. The only album I can recall seeing with liner credits for boots, hats, jeans and tailoring.
Dwight. Troy does look a lot like him, doesn't he?
Lost In The Vault I have no recollection of buying this one, but I'm glad I did. It was produced for a tiny record label by former Blaster James Intveld, who employed two of Dwight Yoakam's sidemen along with steel wizard Jay Dee Mayness. To be sure, there is a hint of Dwight here, but Troy has the vocal chops to hold his own with the upbeat twang from that town south of Bakersfield. A few years later, Troy would sign with EMI Nashville but sank without a trace after one EP.
on the Sam-O-Meter. The only album I can recall seeing with liner credits for boots, hats, jeans and tailoring.Dwight. Troy does look a lot like him, doesn't he?
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Russian Circles - Guidance (2016)
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The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (1984)
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Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)
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