What Are You Listening To? March 2020

[axolotl]

...but, in the meantime....

5ive Style ~ Miniature Portraits (1999)


Art Rock, Post Rock, Funk, Dub

 

[Ojai Sam]

Harry & Jeanie West - Southern Mountain Folk Songs, Vol. II (1950?)

Vinyl Rip Of The Day.

 

[axolotl]

^ is that hardcore or hardcorn?

 

[Ojai Sam]

^ is that hardcore or hardcorn?

Actually it’s hardpore cornography.

 

[axolotl]

Actually it’s hardpore cornography.

That's my jam!

Is that your mash-up?

 

[axolotl]

Jimmie Rodgers ~ Train Whistle Blues (1998, 1958)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Before:

10000 Russos - Kompromat (2019)



Now:

Wishbone Ash - Coat Of Arms (2020)

 

[axolotl]

The Gloaming ~ 2 (2016)



Chamber Folk, Irish Folk Music

 

[axolotl]

Doveman ~ Footloose (2008)



Slowcore

From the only RYM review:

It is exactly what it looks like: 100% undiluted cheese given some reasonable dimensions through somber minor key treatments.

The title track earns the *** 1/2 easily, all on its own. It's nearly kind of brilliant. You WANT to laugh, you THINK you should laugh, buuuuut... it's just too affecting and good somehow.

Elsewhere we get accordions on the (deftly handled) "Let's Hear It For The Boy", and a lot of marblemouthed vocals all around, which are actually a plus when you're dealing w/ lyrics as hackneyed and bad as these.

It runs out of steam on Side B, but then, so did the original.

So? A bad joke, delivered w/ a straight face, and well.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Patty Duke - Don't Just Stand There (1965)

"Patty's first album ever!" The title song is very respectable teen angst pop ala Lesley Gore. The rest, unfortunately, doesn't rise to that level. Her quavering cover of "Downtown" may have inspired Mrs. Miller.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Patty Duke - Don't Just Stand There (1965)

"Patty's first album ever!" The title song is very respectable teen angst pop ala Lesley Gore. The rest, unfortunately, doesn't rise to that level. Her quavering cover of "Downtown" may have inspired Mrs. Miller.

She just looks like a little girl. Is she 9 or 19? could be asked.

 

[Ojai Sam]

She just looks like a little girl. Is she 9 or 19? could be asked.

Patty was 19 when this album came out. Her eponymous TV series had already been a hit for 2 years. Wiki notes:

Duke's own series, The Patty Duke Show, created by Sidney Sheldon especially for her, began airing in September 1963. At that time, it was not known that Duke had bipolar disorder, but Sheldon did notice that she had two distinct sides to her personality and thus developed the concept of identical cousins with contrasting personalities.

 

[Nickyboy]

Mrs. Miller.

A musical phenom, if ever there was one!

 

[axolotl]

A musical phenom, if ever there was one!

If she couldn't hit the note, it couldn't be hit.

 

[axolotl]

Nathan Salsburg ~ Hard for to Win and Can't Be Won (2013)



American Primitivism, Contemporary Folk

This, again.

 

[axolotl]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ~ Murder Ballads (1996)

 

[axolotl]

David Grisman Quintet ~ Dawgnation (2002)



Chamber Folk, Progressive Bluegrass

With a cover like this, I had to listen to it.

 

[Ojai Sam]

If she couldn't hit the note, it couldn't be hit.

When she hit a note, it stayed hit.
Fortunately she missed most of them.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

10000 Russos - Fuzz Club Session (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Planet You - Techxture (2020)