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Post by bobw61 on Aug 22, 2018 7:26:49 GMT
My personal favourite is Miles from the Lightning by Jeffrey Foucault great playing and lyrics
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Post by bobw61 on Aug 22, 2018 7:34:12 GMT
Here’s a few of my faves: Kelly Joe Phelps - Shine Eyed Mr Zen Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane Townes Van Zandt - Live At No Quarter Jack Rose - Kensington Blues Jeff Lang - Hall Seas Over Nick Drake - Pink Moon Some great choices
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Welshruss
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Post by Welshruss on Aug 22, 2018 8:29:42 GMT
My personal favourite is Miles from the Lightning by Jeffrey Foucault great playing and lyrics Great choice though Horse Latitudes is my favourite from Jeffrey Foucault.
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Post by colins on Aug 22, 2018 22:46:48 GMT
How did I miss this thread?
The two outstanding and most influential albums for me were 'Martin Carthy' by guess who! and Bert Jansch 'Rosemary Lane'. Plus of course Robert Johnson 'The complete recordings'.
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Post by Amit on Aug 23, 2018 20:56:27 GMT
I'd pick Paul Curreri - Songs for Devon Sproule. For me, it's the perfect album.
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Post by bobw61 on Aug 26, 2018 8:32:57 GMT
My personal favourite is Miles from the Lightning by Jeffrey Foucault great playing and lyrics Great choice though Horse Latitudes is my favourite from Jeffrey Foucault. Nice one
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Post by NikGnashers on Sept 28, 2018 12:21:36 GMT
The albums I have played the most, are definitely these two :
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane Bert Jansch - L. A. Turnaround
Call me predictable, and I do love many other artists, I just think those two as complete albums are both magnificent.
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 10, 2018 18:17:33 GMT
However did I miss this thread? Sadly a lot of the Youtube vids no longer show on the older posts. For me the most influential album of my teenage years (apart from Sweet Baby James that davewhite has already nabbed) is Bookends, by Simon and Garfunkel. And, for me, this is the standout track One of the most atmospheric tracks ever released. Every time I hear it I am transported to the Greyhound cruising through that landscape.
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 10, 2018 18:19:39 GMT
There are so many. But any of Gillian Welch’s albums would be up there for me.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 11, 2018 9:40:32 GMT
I am very grateful to Cams for suggesting I listen to (and played me his interpretation of 3 tracks from) The Ghost Of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen. I can't honestly say it HAS been an influence, only having been listening to it for just over a week. But I am completely convinced that it WILL become an influence. I have never really been a Bruce Springsteen aficionado, and I only had Born In The USA and The Seeger Sessions in my collection, but I have now added The Ghost Of Tom Joad and Nebraska. Wonderful dark storytelling and spare lyrics and arrangements. Absolutely incredible stuff. I love it. Here is Bruce singing of one of the songs Cams played to me. I prefer Cams' version, but I don't have a recording of that.
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Post by Cams on Oct 11, 2018 19:20:45 GMT
I am very grateful to Cams for suggesting I listen to (and played me his interpretation of 3 tracks from) The Ghost Of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen. Glad to hear you enjoyed it Paul. I've been listening to Joni a lot since HB9 too. The 'Love Actually' album is so good. I've listened to Nebraska a few times but it never grabbed me in quite the same what that Ghost of Tom Joad did. If you haven't read Grapes of Wrath by the way, I highly recommend that you do. It's my favourite book, though I hadn't read it when I first started playing Tom Joad. You'll imagine my joy on coming across Tom Joad in the early pages of the novel. I don't think there could have been a better songwriter to pay homage to that novel than Springsteen. One of my everlasting memories is of playing that song for John Thomas in his home on one of his banner Gibsons from the WWII years. To play that on an old Gibson and in America was, well, a moment!
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Post by cottonopolis on Oct 11, 2018 20:42:41 GMT
Together at Last-Jeff Tweedy. The front man of Wilco, released an acoustic album which consisted of various songs from the bands catalogue. And another shout for Gillian Welch. The Harrow & The Harvest, is as good as it gets.
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 12, 2018 9:22:14 GMT
The Harrow and the Harvest is certainly fat good. Indeed, I’m off to listen to it now!
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Post by cottonopolis on Oct 12, 2018 12:34:56 GMT
The Harrow and the Harvest is certainly fat good. Indeed, I’m off to listen to it now! Dave Rawlings accompaniment to Gillian`s songs, is also wonderful. Never overbearing, just perfect.
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Post by dangad on Oct 18, 2018 8:59:13 GMT
Find it impossible to talk about "All time" but certainly some things on heavy rotation this month...
Muriel Anderson - Heartstrings John Renbourne - A Maid in Bedlam Soig Siberil - Entre Ardoise et Granit Eric Tingstad - On The Links
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