06-24-2024, 01:08 PM
Many thanks BC and everyone chiming in with new (new to me - when recorded doesn't matter) music to discover.
Spotify and Tidal use some form of self-reinforcing AI to craft playlists and it is clear that I've been on a power blues kick. Here is what my Spotify overlords are making me work out to currently:
Gary Clark Jr.
Robin Trower
Nathaniel Ratcliff and the Night Sweats
Sturgill Simpson
Marcus King
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Black Pumas
KALEO
Charles Bradley
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Will Taylor and Strings Attached
JD McPherson
Cam Cole (Ted Lasso fame)
The Bones of J.R. Jones
Ron Gallo
ABB (I think they show up on every AI playlist made for me no matter the genre, I wonder why)
Alabama Shakes
On YouTube, I've been hooked by the Playing for Change site. They say they are tying to 'inspire and connect the world through music.' If that is too political, forgive me. Globally remote recordings that put a new twist on the classic and obscure with genres all over the musical map. Check out When the Levee Breaks.
Prepare to spend hours in here.
On the new music front, I've been collecting vinyl again. I was in Redwood Records (Santa Cruz) and saw an album cover with a Karmann Ghia parked in front of what looks like my son's best friend's house in the Sunset. Sure enough, the 2023 release was recorded in a house in the Sunset, so I bought it strictly off the album cover, like I was ten again. It won't go down as an all time classic for me, but it's starting to grow.
Buying a book by its cover
My pandemic thing was to get back into two-channel audio using cathode tubes. I should be receiving an iron coupled preamp in the next few weeks to give my collection a workout. The guy who built it is burning it in now and making sure it's going to work for a lifetime. He thinks it might be too resolving. Like you can hear artists using their spit valves depending on how well the recording was made.
Spotify and Tidal use some form of self-reinforcing AI to craft playlists and it is clear that I've been on a power blues kick. Here is what my Spotify overlords are making me work out to currently:
Gary Clark Jr.
Robin Trower
Nathaniel Ratcliff and the Night Sweats
Sturgill Simpson
Marcus King
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Black Pumas
KALEO
Charles Bradley
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Will Taylor and Strings Attached
JD McPherson
Cam Cole (Ted Lasso fame)
The Bones of J.R. Jones
Ron Gallo
ABB (I think they show up on every AI playlist made for me no matter the genre, I wonder why)
Alabama Shakes
On YouTube, I've been hooked by the Playing for Change site. They say they are tying to 'inspire and connect the world through music.' If that is too political, forgive me. Globally remote recordings that put a new twist on the classic and obscure with genres all over the musical map. Check out When the Levee Breaks.
Prepare to spend hours in here.
On the new music front, I've been collecting vinyl again. I was in Redwood Records (Santa Cruz) and saw an album cover with a Karmann Ghia parked in front of what looks like my son's best friend's house in the Sunset. Sure enough, the 2023 release was recorded in a house in the Sunset, so I bought it strictly off the album cover, like I was ten again. It won't go down as an all time classic for me, but it's starting to grow.
Buying a book by its cover
My pandemic thing was to get back into two-channel audio using cathode tubes. I should be receiving an iron coupled preamp in the next few weeks to give my collection a workout. The guy who built it is burning it in now and making sure it's going to work for a lifetime. He thinks it might be too resolving. Like you can hear artists using their spit valves depending on how well the recording was made.