Thursday, December 12, 2013

Desert Island Discs

You know .... In case you are ever stranded on a deserted island with little hope of rescue. Just some discs I would hope to have along, assuming that I also had my turntable or iPod. Any one of these potentially being my favorite album on any given day .....

  • Peter Gabriel- So
  • U2 - The Joshua Tree .... For years, I listened only to the side with the hits. It's just been recently that I've been discovering the other half of the album.
  • Son Volt - Okemah and The Melody Of Riot
  • Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert .... For late evening listening. In the dark. Solo and improvisational Jazz piano. 
  • Jackson Browne - For Everyman
  • Cat Stevens - Tea For the Tillerman .... Songwriting masterpiece!! More than any other record this sounds like it could belong to any decade since its arrival. I don't think of it as a 70's album.
  • Neil Young - After the Goldrush .... The discovery of entire albums instead of Top-40, AM-Radio of the late 1960's.
  • John Hiatt - Slow Turning
  • Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge Of Town
  • Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
...... and a few more .....
  • James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon ..... There was a month of two period in the summer of 1974 where I listened almost exclusively to this while living with my Aunt and Uncle in Depoe Bay, working a summer job. Maybe because it was the only record that I also had an 8-track tape of. I could probably recite all the lyrics today.
  • Pierce Pettis - Chase the Buffalo
  • Peter Himmelman - From Strength to Strength
  • Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
  • Jolene - In the Gloaming
  • John Coltrane - Giant Steps

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