Originally posted at Facebook
These are the ones I was just about always happy to find popping up on the iPod. That's all.
Asterisks are for ones I think you may not know yet … and should. The rest are so excellent and well-known … they're just … like … obvious.Alphabetical by the music maker (but if I had to name My Own Personal Very Best Album of the Year, it would have to be Lord Bring Me Down by The Consolers ... what sorry excuse for a culture would not/could not steer me to them before now?)
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An Italian Songbook - Cecilia Bartoli
Sea Change - Beck
For Emma, Forever - Bon Iver
Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah - James Booker
The List - Rosanne Cash
Lord Bring Me Down - The Consolers*
My Life - Iris Dement
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
Since We Met - Bill Evans Trio
Shake That Thing - Stefan Grossman*
Two Short Stories - Jayber Crow*
Bach Sonatas & Partitas - Gidon Kremer
Oh My God Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem
The Good Feeling - Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele*
Shakuhachi; Japanese Flute - Kohachiro Miyata*
The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats
The Voice of the Poet - Frank O'Hara
Brighten the Corners - Pavement
Little Grey Sheep - Danny Schmidt*
The Eternal - Sonic Youth
Going Up: The Very Best of the 13th Floor Elevators - 13th Floor Elevators
Wilco (the album) - Wilco
Live at Massey Hall 1971 - Neil Young
you still do letters or emails or you all twittered and facebooked up? it's seductive all the easy shorts bursts conveniently limiting the characters we can use, the ones we can admit of, can be ...
Posted by: ms | 15 January 2010 at 03:57 PM
yeah it is seductive ... but it contributes to our/my busyness & frazzledness ... YES, I still do email ... but can't claim much energy for regular old wonderful snail mail ... stamp? envelope? mailbox? ... truly exotic stuff
Posted by: brtom | 15 January 2010 at 04:02 PM
Hey , do you have the Frank O'hara Voice of the Poet cd? Or even the whole thing on mp3
I know I'm just a random stranger, but if you could send it to me I'll be your best friend!
Posted by: Myf | 16 January 2010 at 04:41 PM
sorry ... can't help you
Posted by: brtom | 17 January 2010 at 09:55 AM