I’d down loaded Vinnie Kilduff’s ‘The Boys from the Blue Hills’
a couple of days ago and had a good listen ths weekend and enjoyed it thoroghly.
So I was wondering what you’ve been indulging in musically?
Old or new, ITM, Jazz, Classical whatever 
maybe even some Country and Western 
I’ve been alternating between Phil Hardy’s “Revisited” album, Nancy Rumbel’s “Ocarina Music,” and Pamela Thorby’s amazing “Ammonite”. All three are excellent, for any aerophone buff.
Ubizmo
“Touch Me if You Dare” by Ronan Browne & Peter O’Loughlin.
“Comb Your Hair and Curl it” by Catherine McEvoy, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh.
“The Great Rocksteady Swindle” by The Slackers
Amorroma “Carduelis”
Brian Finnegan “Ravishing Genuis of Bones”
Matheu Watson “Matheu Watson”
Den “Just around the window”
“Snap” to Brigitte on Brian Finnegan (in the car, on Friday, trying to play along to it in my head. Difficult. But easier than ACTUALLY playing along to it.)
Then my newly purchased LAU album arrived, their first, “Lightweights & Gentlemen”, and kept me busy for the entire weekend. Including some mad dancing in the kitchen. It is just the best music EVER, rivalled only by the other LAU CD, “Arc Light”. No flute or whistle, but probably the sexiest accordion-playing on earth.
I borrowed a boatload of 80’s music from the library this past couple of weeks. This weekend I listened to the Queen triple CD collection. I’ve been playing the CD’s at work, the lady who sits next to me has a strong, lovely voice and has no self-control when it comes to Tears for Fears, Cyndi Lauper, well anything 80’s, anything at all really, and a few of the other cube dwellers can not control themselves during some of the compilation CD’s. Me either.
I picked up some extra job assignments that should have required a relocation to the most gawd-awful, you can hear a pin drop, shhhh, you’re making too much noise, work-site. I said that I’d accept the assignments if I could remain where I am. They interdepartmental mail me the work and we’ve had to re-adjust processes for this to happen. I am not working there, I’ll tell you that.
Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds - “Can you Deal with It”
Frank Zappa - “Kreega Bondola”
(You had to ask…)
I just got four of Stevie Wonder’s classic five albums from the 70’s (Music of my Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life; I already had Innervisions). Put the six discs in the CD changer and listened all weekend. It doesn’t get much better.
Listening to the Lonely Stranded Band today, second time through already! Just fantastic.
WOW, you’re braver than I.
I spent Labour Day Weekend at Pleasanton (San Francisco East Bay area) at a Scottish festival (its 145th annual) listening to Pipe Bands. I’m a huge fan of Pipe Band music and when I’m not playing in a band I’ll still attend the festivals to listen.
Over last weekend it was my usual diet of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Pete Fountain, Albert Nicholas, etc in the car… I spent nearly 16 hours on the road Saturday driving from gig to gig, literally playing from dawn to twilight at various places.
I love Pete Fountain. I have a bunch of his solo stuff and his stuff with Dukes of Dixieland on vinyl and it’s among my favorite to listen to in that format.
On Labor day I was listening to The Rogues with Doug McRae on bagpipes and then a group called Wine and Alchemy. The latter was a Greek, Gypsy, eastern European group which was a nice change in music for me.
Ron