So, what music are you listening to now?

[finnbow]

Listening to Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" while reading 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

[bobabode]

Performance (soundtrack)
Fox, Jagger

[Not Insane]

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

I see that as a benchmark release by her. Afterward in an interview she discussed, IIRC, something along the lines of it being "after she grew up". Love that album.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Some blues...
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark - Robert Cray Band

I think his albums are some of the most well produced albums out there. With a good hi-fi, the band is in the room, and the lead vocals are right there, about three feet in front of me! Love that album too.

Sheesh. If you look hard enough, you and I just may have something in common.

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

Sheesh. If you look hard enough, you and I just may have something in common.

Once you factor out partisan politics, designed by it very nature to be divisive, I think you'll find far more commonalities that differences among us all here

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

I think his albums are some of the most well produced albums out there. With a good hi-fi, the band is in the room, and the lead vocals are right there, about three feet in front of me! Love that album too.

Sheesh. If you look hard enough, you and I just may have something in common.

I have a number of his albums, but now find them a bit too smooth and overproduced for my taste in blues. I played them fairly frequently when I bought them, but now go back to the grittier, dirtier Chicago-style blues when I need a blues fix.

[Oerets]

Still his voice and guitar will draw me back….

Wife will alway stop….listen….enjoy when he is doing his stuff.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by init4fun

Once you factor out partisan politics, designed by it very nature to be divisive, I think you'll find far more commonalities that differences among us all here

Well said.

When I moved to Kentucky from Seattle back in 2011, I started posting about politics in facebook (I rarely go there now). Anyway, every single one of my seattle musician friends unfriended me and over half did so with a profanity and ad-hominem laced attack on me personally. It was an eye opener.

My son who lives in capitol hill in Seattle has a same sex wife/husband. His significant other is an alcoholic and one of those leftists that just rams the most absurd hate laced posts, bereft of facts, about Trump and anything to the right. You know the type. You see them on left and right wing sites. But anyway, my wife and I just ignore those rants and, frankly, don't even post political - or even cultural - stuff on sites where we are not anonymous.

It only destroys friendships.

And what's funny is that I would be happy to meet anyone here for coffee at starbucks and try to find common ground outside of what we talk about here. I even did that with Norman Maslov on one of my trips to seattle. We had a great time and even touched on politics, but face to face. For the record, he and I are on completely opposite sides, politically. But it didn't matter.

BTW, here's who I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/@mazzysmusic

If anyone ever finds themself in Kentucky I think it would be fun to meet up for coffee somewhere. It's a drive for me, but I love the "highlands" area of Louisville. It's sort of a cross between the Freemont, Capitol Hill and Wallingford parts of Seattle. Except it's nice and flat - very bicycle friendly. And it has several record stores, and ElectricLadyLand is always fun to visit. Records and headshop that would fit in perfectly in Capitol hill. But no, I've not touched the evil weed since 1977.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I have a number of his albums, but now find them a bit too smooth and overproduced for my taste in blues. I played them fairly frequently when I bought them, but now go back to the grittier, dirtier Chicago-style blues when I need a blues fix.

I can see that. I do find that the older I get the less I can stand of any particular type of music for an extended period. Heck, I even found that I like the Lenka type stuff, but found that about three songs in a row are enough. Same with bluegrass.

In fact, oddly, I'm finding that more and more I'm migrating to jazz. And I don't mean the sax stuff, though even that I can handle (and enjoy) in small quantities.