What Are You Listening To?

[Starsky]

Babasonicos - Anoche


One of the best albums of past twenty years…

[kosmo vinyl]

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale

it's national vinyl day and the band said show us your vinyl and of course i had to post a picture of my signed copy of this one.. i had put in the sleeve a flyer with scribbled notes about the show... i was able to decipher that this was when TTWS was on tour with Michael Penn in 1989 and i was trying to capture the Penn's setlist... the hit was "No Myth" and DJ Bonebreak was in Penn's touring band at the time...

[Starsky]

Louis Prima and the Witnesses (Keely Smith)


The two cd ultra-lounge compilation that was released in the mid 90s I believe to cash in on Brian Setzers’s cover of Jump jive and wail when you had that brief lounge music revival


Tacky cover cartoon of Louis and Keely apparently grilling at a bbq notwithstanding (what is lounge about that?) this compilation smokes from first to last over two and a half hours!




Some of my favorite music and I think an under recognized bit of rock and roll…always sort of marginalized to the Sinatra/Nat King Cole section of the record store with which it often has nothing in common other than time period…more than vocal jazz this is r&b and rock and roll married with New Orleans music and jazz…a beautiful melting pot..at times ecstatic joyous music…oh and Prima was a jiver…almost a pre-rapper making up hilarious improv lines and introducing them in the middle of classic songs..listen to him turn Just one of those things inside out and upside down!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z22cDkABFsM


Of course Prima - largely forgotten-is the man who perfected the Vegas lounge act which wasn’t just about music but also comedy…

Prima deserves a good biography

[challenged]

Archers of Loaf
to see whether I want to go to the december 17 (friday) ottobar show.

[kosmo vinyl]

ocean colour scene - moseley shoals

friday end of the work week jams...

[Starsky]

Cd 2 of Andres Calamaro’s Honestidad Brutal

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWVo2tank-zyo3B98QdcQpDdGyJYSH8vk

My favorite album for almost 25 years -all 37 or 38 songs- alternating repeatedly with its 5 cd follow up El Salmon which has been my favorite since 2017… a 101 song absolutely crazy masterpiece

I get burnt out on stuff though so I am thankful for having misplaced cd for a year

Recently in Spain for RSD a few weeks ago they put out a record with half of these songs recorded in demo form in my neighborhood in Buenos Aires: Palermo. I picked up three copies and you know international shipping ain’t cheap.

I can’t believe he is turning 60 on the 22nd… Meeting Andres and getting to chat a bit about ten years ago after his show at Irving Plaza was a treat…I will always remember talking about how the Nobel Academy and Bob Dylan - a mutual touchstone who he has opened for many times- would he win? we both knew he would get it eventually and a few years later he did..People always criticize social media but a few weeks after meeting I was explaining how baseball worked over twitter to him back in Argentina watching..

The years are going too fast now…way way too fast… and this damn covid feels like it’s both slowing and accelerating things


“El tiempo pasa..nos vamos poniendo menos..”
A.C.

[Bagley]

Mountain Goats- Dark in Here

Their jazziest to date

i.e. Lizard Suit

[grateful]

Mountain Goats- Dark in Here

Their jazziest to date

i.e. Lizard Suit

So hoping they have Lizard Suits at the merch table

[Starsky]

A personal favorite


Most will know her for being the female voice on Schoolhouse Rocks


Blossom Dearie is buried a couple of miles from here in Falls Church

[Starsky]

Another personal favorite

[Starsky]

Tom Waits- Nighthawks at the diner

Imgbb seems down so pic will follow


I think if I could have  only one early Waits album this would be the pick of the litter

[kosmo vinyl]

prompted by a friend's tweet it's T.Rex and Adam Ant day

[Starsky]

[Starsky]

This has to be one of the last covers David Stone Martin did for Verve record label owner Norman Granz….1959

[Starsky]

The most important band of the 1970s had trouble selling records in the US so the originals of this invariably ended up in the cutout bin and feature a cut corner….

They still get little credit in these parts….