Category: Roots Music Safari
A Six Pack Playlist of New Blues – (Dec 3-9 2017)
Tommy Castro’s Stompin’ Ground Kicks off a Playlist of New Blues
So last week after I made the John Gorka playlist I visited the Roots Music Report’’s Blues Chart. I scanned down the list. There were new releases from a few artists I know and like and several new artists. I decided to make a playlist to see which albums I would like to explore in more detail, I.e. listen to the full album. Here are the albums and artists, the playlist and my thoughts on the albums.
Late Summer and Fall 2017 Playlist – Americana and Blues
A Six Pack Playlist of Americana/Folk and Blues and More
I may never be able to catch up writing about the various albums I have been listening to over the last three to four months. So I have decided to make a few playlists that will group the tracks roughly by genre. Here;’s what’s on the first one….
Another Great Toe-Tapping Album from Trout Steak Revival
Trout Steak Revival – Spirit to the Sea
Yesterday I posted that two albums have stood out in my music rotation over the last few weeks. The first one was Hard Times the latest release from jazz saxophonist Vincent Herring. The second one is Spirit to the Sea from the Colorado Indie-Americana string band Trout Steak Revival. I first encountered the music of Trout Steak Revival back in 2012 , when I listened to their album Flight. After listening to that album I knew that this was a band that was going places. And they did!
Meditation Music from Miles Davis’ Classic Bitches Brew?
An Afternoon Meditation with Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew
Over the last few weeks I have been doing a 20-30 minute afternoon meditation which has several times just turned into a power nap. Today unlike yesterday, I used a musical soundtrack. Now, the album Bitches Brew is not exactly your typical meditation music, it is however, an album that I used to sit and listen to on a weekend night when I was in college. Yes , on a quiet weekend night, the lights would go off in my dorm room and “Miles Runs Down the Voodoo” from side 2 of Bitches Brew would be spinning on my turntable.
From New Age Piano to Blues – How Many Genres Does Your Music Listening Cross?
Thoughts About My Music Listening
Ok so this morning as I was writing my morning post I listened to Ann Sweeten’s 2016 release Where Butterflies Dance. It is a beautiful piano based album. I guess that album finished before I was done writing because when I went back to Spotify after finishing writing my post a different piano artist’s music was playing!
Let’s go Up in the Old Hotel with Tom Russell
Let’s Go into the Afternoon with To Russell’s Up in the Old Hotel
Tom Russell’s latest release Folk Hotel has been in my music rotation for a week or so now. And I like the album more and more each time I listen to it. There are few songwriters whose songs send me to Wikipedia to look up references as do Tom’s. As A matter of fact, I was sent scurrying on the first song “Up in the Old Hotel”. The first thing that I went to find out about was who was Joseph Mitchell, whose ghost wanders the halls of Tom’s Folk Hotel. Here’s what I found……
Ugh! Humidity Slows Me Down! The Bucking Mules Pick Me Up!
Yesterday’s Run: Humidity Slows Me Down While The Bucking Mules Pick Me Up!
Yesterday’s run was both good and bad. The good was the great picking from The Bucking Mules while the bad was the high humidity! When the start of the run I knew the humidity was bad. It had rained the night rained Tuesday night and weather.com listed the humidity at 90 plus percent. Anyway I decided that I wouldn’t worry about running a shaded route because it was cloudy. I picked the old Creek out and back 4-mile course.
Avalon Ballroom: Quicksilver August 1967 leads to “Duncan & Brady”
Quicksilver Messenger Service Plays the Avalon Ballroom August 17 – 20, 1967 leads to “Duncan and Brady”
Back when I started this blog way back in 2010 my yearly wall calendar r was Rock Roots: Avalon Ballroom Posters 1966-1967. The calendar has twelve classic posters advertising concerts at the Avalon Ballroom during those years. For each month it also lists how was playing at the Ballroom on the various days of the month For me it was a great calendar and I still like looking at it, which is what I did yesterday (August 19) when we came home from vacation.
