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This is a list, in no particular order, of the music that I am currently listening to.
| Love and Fear Tom Russell |
Hightone Records | A recent (2006) Tom Russell collection, with the feeling of getting older running through it. Beautiful trouble is my favorite track. |
| World without tears lucinda Williams |
UMG Recordings |
A great country rock compilation from 2003. Lucinda is one of those raw alt.country singers who you will either love or hate. |
| Copperhead Road Steve Earle |
Geffen Records |
A twenty year old collection that still sounds fresh and modern. |
| revolution Starts Now Steve Earle |
Artemis Records |
A 2004 collection that has some interesting material like the truck driver dreaming of home whilst convoying in Iraq. One of the strangest tracks is a love song to Condaleeza Rice. Strange that is until you twig that, as usual, he is extracting the urine out of the Bush administration. |
| The Man From God Knows Where Tom Russell |
Kirkelig Kulturverksted |
Only buy this if, like me, you are already a Tom Russell fan. It is a rambling history of his family, from their origins in Ireland and Norway through their life in America. Basically a single song, but with different tunes for each collection of verses. |
| Backwoods Barbie Dolly Parton |
Dolly records |
O.K. sneer if you want, but Dolly still has the best voice in modern music. She is at her self parody best on the title track. |
| Wounded heart of America Various artists |
Hightone records | A great collection of Tom Russell songs performed by people as diverse as Johnny Cash and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The songs are vintage Russell, ballads about people living on the fault lines and in the fractures of society. It finishes on a couple of songs sung by Tom himself. A scathing comment on Nashville in "The death of Jimmy Martin" and a rousing question to the middle class of "whose gonna build your wall?" to seal off Mexico, if all the illegals are sent home. |
| Day after tomorrow Joan Baez |
Proper Records Ltd | I have been a fan of Joan since the 1960's and my all time favorite album is "Any day now", a collection of Bob Dylan songs from 1968 which are transformed into something very special when Joan sings them. This 2008 collection is produced by Stave Earle and therefore takes Joan's sound in a somewhat new direction. Still the same beautiful voice though and the same clever guitar playing. |
| West Lucinda Williams |
UMG Recordings Inc | I am slowly buying up all of Lucinda's back catalogue and this is another gem. Driving rhythms, intelligent words and that soulful gravelly voice. It's country music Jim, but not as you know it. Now if I could just get her next to the Rolling Stones..... |
| Mescalito Ryan Bingham |
UMG Recordings Inc | A young Texan troubadour. He will never be an international star, but well worth a liston to. |
Last updated 4 January 2009