Album Feature

John Hiatt's newest offering, The Open Road, to be released on March 2, will be our Album Feature on March 3. This is John Hiatt's 19th album.

In April of 1968, Stephen Stills "peeled off a few hundreds" to the engineer at a Judy Collins session in NYC so that he could make a tape of his new songs. That tape was lost to the wind for nearly 40 years. It was recorded a number of months before the first CSN album. "Somehow it's found its way back, and these songs now feel like great friends when they were really young." ~ Stephen Stills ~ The name of the album is Just Roll Tape. It was released in 2007 and it's our Album Feature for February 24

The Album Feature for February 17 is 21st Century Schizoid Band Official Bootleg Volume One.The band was formed by original and past members of King Crimson, Ian McDonald, Michael Giles and Mel Collins, with additional musicians, Jakko Jakszyk and Peter Giles.

It was recorded live in a London studio in August of 2002. Tracks include familiar King Crimson tunes: I Talk To The Wind, In The Court of The Crimson King, and, of course, 21st Century Schizoid Man and more. These are very interesting arrangements with no "cosmetic touch ups" !

Dave Mason is on tour and performing in our area soon. He'll be sharing the bill with Leon Russell at The Egg in Albany on Saturday March 6th.

For more information visit www.theegg.org There are still tickets available. This is a terrific concert venue......not a bad seat in the house!

 

Dave's latest album is called 26 Letters ~ Twelve Notes, and you can listen on Wednesday evening, Feb. 10 at 8PM. www.dave-mason.com

Our friend and colleague, Elwood, chose this week's Album Feature. At 8 pm on February 3rd, we'll be listening to Chris Smither's most recent release, Time Stands Still.

The Album Feature for January 27 is Levitate, the latest release from Bruce Hornsby and his latest band, The Noisemakers. One of the tunes is co-written by Bruce and The Grateful Dead's lyricist, Robert Hunter. Eric Clapton also plays on this record.

Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles, and, formerly of Poco, has a new solo album out. It's called Expando. And it'll be our Album Feature for January 20th. All songs were written by Timothy. But he is accompanied by a few stellar musicians that we all know and love. They include: Keb Mo, Benmont Tench, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Graham Nash, Garth Hudson, Jim Keltner, Gary Burton, Dwight Yoakam and Kid Rock.

We play more local musicians than anyone else. On January 13th we're featuring one of the best......and a favorite of ours, Jimmy Branca. The title of the album is Jim Branca - Live. Live where? ( You might ask.) Live at Nectar's in beautiful downtown Burlington! It was recorded on February 3, 2004. Enjoy. This is a really terrific album. www.jimbranca.com

January 6th would have been birthday number 64 for Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, who died in 2006. As a tribute, we are featuring the band's debut album, Piper At The Gates of Dawn. Syd wrote all but one of the tunes on this 1967 release.

Jeff Lynne of ELO and The Traveling Wilburys celebrates birthday number 62 on December 30. Our Album Feature will be The Electric Light Orchestra's 1977 release, Out of the Blue. Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and Tom Petty. He has co-written songs with Petty and also with George Harrison whose 1987 album Cloud Nine was co-produced by Lynne and Harrison. His compositions include "Evil Woman", "Telephone Line", "Livin' Thing", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Sweet Talkin' Woman".

The Album Feature for the Eve of Christmas Eve, December 23, is Christmas In The Heart......the very first and ONLY Bob Dylan Holiday Album.

This week's Album Feature is the recent (Dec. 8) release from Neil Young called Dreamin' Man Live '92

The album is a complete live performance of Young's album Harvest Moon drawn from various solo acoustic shows he performed in 1992 before the actual release of the Harvest studio recording, which makes this performance even more unique. Dreamin' Man Live '92 revisits Harvest Moon 17 years after its release by pulling together a series of intimate solo acoustic performances Young did at the time. The album was produced by Young and John Hanlon and recorded and mixed by Tim Mulligan. Tune in on Wednesday December 16 at 8 pm.

Joan Armatrading was born on December 9, 1950, so in celebration of her birthday, our Album Feature for this week will be Show Some Emotion (1977).

Artists featured on this album include Georgie Fame, who became known in the U.S. during the British Invasion, and saxophonist extraordinaire, Mel Collins, who has played with Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits, The Alan Parsons Project, and was also a member of Prog rock groups, King Crimson and Camel.

The Album Feature for December 2 is Waiting For the Sun (1968) from The Doors.......their third album. Interestingly enough, the song Waiting For the Sun does not appear on this album. It's on Morrison Hotel, which was released in 1970. We chose a Doors album because two of the band members have birthdays in early December. Drummer John Densmore on Dec. 1 (1944) and James Douglas Morrison Dec. 8 (1943). Jim passed away in 1971 at age 27. Two members of The Doors have written memoirs : Riders on the Storm by John Densmore and Light My Fire - My Life With the Doors by Ray Manzarek. I've read them both. The Manzarek book is better......a really interesting and fun read! Diane

The Album Feature for November 25 is from our friend, Pat Guadagno and his band, Tired Horses. It's called "That's a Bob Dylan Song". And it was recorded LIVE on May 19, 2009 at The Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. It's a double album.........31 songs in all......every one of them written by Mr. Dylan. Pat and his band are very talented musicians with interesting interpretations of the tunes we all know and love.

The Album Feature for November 18 is Robin Trower's latest, What Lies Beneath. www.robintrower.com

The Album Feature for November 11 is a really unusual one. It's The Graeme Edge Band featuring Adrian Gurvitz, Kick Off Your Muddy Boots. Graeme Edge, of course, is the longtime drummer for The Moody Blues. This is a very interesting album. Released in 1975, it just recently became available in CD format.

The Album Feature for November 4 is the new one from John Mayall, Tough. www.johnmayall.com

The Album Feature for October 21 is Somewhere in Africa (1984) from Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Manfred Mann (Manfred Sepse Lubowitz) was born on October 21, 1940 in Johnannesburg, South Africa. He took his name from jazz drummer, Shelly Manne. We first heard about him and his original group (he is the keyboard player) in 1964, as a British Invasion band.

www.manfredmann.co.uk

The Album Feature for October 14 is In Search of the Lost Chord from The Moody Blues (1968)

Justin Hayward celebrates his 63rd birthday today. He was born in 1946. Many of the most well known Moody Blues songs were written by Justin. Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White Satin, Your Wildest Dreams, and so many more.

www.justinhayward.com www.moodyblues.co.uk

The Album Feature for October 7 is the new one from John Fogerty and The Blue Ridge Rangers, Rides Again.

www.johnfogerty.com

The Album Feature for September 30 is Bad Dog from Montpelier band, The Heckhounds. Kind of a Bluesy-(sort of) Country sound.

www.myspace.com/theheckhounds

In honor of Bruce Springsteen's 60th birthday today, we will feature his album, Born in the USA, released in October of 1984. Bruce arrived on this planet September 23, 1949. www.brucespringsteen.net

The Album Feature for September 16 is the brand new one from Mark Knopfler, Get Lucky. We love Mark! www.markknopfler.com

The Album Feature for September 9 is Joy from Phish.......the brand new studio recording. www.phish.com

The Album Feature for September 2 is Hot Rats from Frank Zappa (1969). This is mostly an instrumental album which features artists such as Shuggie Otis, Jean Luc Ponty, Sugar Cane Harris, and Captain Beefheart (who performs the only vocal).

www.zappa.com

The Album Feature for August 26 is Bluesman Robben Ford's brand new live album, Soul On Ten. Most of the album was recorded at The Independent in San Francisco. The last two tracks on the CD were recorded live at Stagg Street Studio in Van Nuys, California. WWW.ROBBENFORD.COM

The Album Feature for August 19 is This Time, the brand new one from Robert Cray. This is his first studio album in 5 years. 

Robert Cray has been away from the studio for awhile but the song remains the same. Cray makes elegant sophisticated blues with strong vocals and understated guitar lines. Strong song writing makes this another solid piece of work in Cray's long career. There isn't any guitar hero antics here. Just well played intelligent music performed by an underrated and often overlooked musician. www.robertcray.com

The Album Feature for August 12 is Lost In The Cosmic Void, from the original Pi Corp tapes from 1973 - 1976

If you enjoy Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Vanilla Fudge and "Space Music" in general, tune in at 8 pm Eastern Daylight Time.....Planet Earth

Back when it was quad and ‘The Kid’ was king, two divergent musicians from Cleveland joined forces in their quest to combine electronic rock, free-form jazz, and take music to a whole new level. The time was right; technology was fueling music and both were bursting at the seams.

Abruptly abandoning the thriving local music scene, they began to plan their electro-musical assault in the basement of a great little music store.........

"The Earthmen" diligently began to build the machine and started creating music that was considered weird, far-out and, “you call that music?” At two o’clock in the morning, you could drive down Euclid Avenue and hear strange sounds and rhythms echoing through the deserted city blocks. The rumors were true; the journey had begun. With tools primitive by today’s standards, the Earthmen ventured into uncharted musical realms; believing that music should flow from within you… spontaneously and uninhibited. It could never be written, it just had to happen. — Wow!As time passed, our intrepid Earthmen harnessed unusual sounds and intricate rhythms; molding and developing the aural craziness into an innovative and unique musical art form. Soon, other friendly Earthmen, each revolving in their own unique orbits of talent and creativity, joined to help and the colony began to grow… the sound became as big as infinity. Pi Corp was born!

The small band of Pi-oneers relentlessly explored and challenged the boundaries of the sonic universe; constantly battling turbulent brain waves, clogged screens, and broken Echo-Plex tape. But by the grace of the Gods of Rock, our cosmic minstrels were able to record their explorations; logging every spontaneous and uncharted mission in ancient analog code.