5 Records from Parents/Family Members That Changed Your Life-Listening

This is an offshoot of the Top 5 Favorites/Most Important/etc., and probably means more to the younger generation of Americana listeners who had so many of their parent's classic rock records to work their way through.

My dad had a fairly good collection of vinyl but stopped buying a lot of music when CDs came into vogue. With a broken record player, me and my brother were stuck exploring only a small slice of what he collected. My top 5 from that is...

1. Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind [Everybody's first Dylan record hits them hardest, I think. Unless it was like Street Legal or some crap like that]

2. The Rolling Stones -Exile on Main Street (one of the few records he bought twice)

3. The Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East

4. Eric Clapton - From the Cradle and/or Blind Faith - S/T

5. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse [you can pretend you don't like this record if you want to, but I still love it]

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Permalink Reply by tom white on April 1, 2009 at 5:58am
I was the oldest, so my music came from a friends older brother who turned me onto the first Buffalo Springfield CD "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH" while I was in high school. Then I joined the Columbia Music club and found the BYRDS
Permalink Reply by kelly on April 1, 2009 at 9:58pm
i have 9 older siblings so i have a lot to remember. plus my mom was a huge john denver fan. she would tell us to be quiet whenever he was palying on the radio!!!!!!!!

1. jacson browne - running on empty
2. eagles - hotel california
3.john denver's greatest hits (mom's favorite)
4.eric clapton- time pieces
5.bruce springsteen-darkness on the edge of town
Permalink Reply by T Hanssen on April 21, 2009 at 7:51pm
My parents grew up before Rock, for the most part. They were not big music people but they had their favorites. Every long car trip vacation consisted of homemade "best of" eight tracks of a small canon of artists:

1. Marty Robbins
2. Johnny Cash
3. Burl Ives
4. Neil Diamond
5. John Denver

Occasionally some Elvis or Johnny Mathis might slip in there, but that was about the extent of the variety.
Permalink Reply by Bobbo on April 22, 2009 at 12:25am
I got my mom's 8-tracks. Slim Whitman doesn't sound right to me unless there's a vacuum going at the same time...

My favorites were:

1) Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich

2) The First of the Irish Rovers

3) Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce

4) Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan

5) Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits (which version? no idea!)
Permalink Reply by Stina on June 15, 2010 at 4:29pm
My deep love of Neil Diamond's "His Twelve Greatest Hits" and U2's "The Joshua Tree" comes from my father while Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet", "Cross Roads", and "New Jersey" comes from my mother. Rod Stewert, The Righteous Brothers, Del Shannon and Dion, The Everly Brothers... etc. There was a lot of music around my house growing up which is funny because my parents very rarely listen to music anymore. I can count on one hands maybe two the number of times they listen to music throughout the year. Sad. Also - stole Mellencamp's "American Fool" from my mother as well. LOL. Poor woman. Later got permission for all the heisted CDs to remain mine! :P
Permalink Reply by Roscoe on June 16, 2010 at 6:29pm
my brothers bob dylan collection and my dads hank sr. cd and merle haggard box set plus all my moms 60's rock and a marty robbins cd and some buck owens vinyl
Permalink Reply by KW on June 17, 2010 at 6:40am
I shared a room with a brother 8 years my senior, so I got to hear a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise. The two albums that probably had the most lasting impact were the original "Jesus Christ Superstar" (the one with Ian Gillan, which my friends and I call "the brown album") and The Who's "Tommy."
Permalink Reply by Jack Williams on June 17, 2010 at 6:44pm
This one's tough as I was the oldest of five and was the one with the big record collection. My parents weren't big music collectors. The two artists I remember most is Johnny Cash and the Clancy Brothers (Mom is from the Old Sod). Didn't get into Johnny Cash until about 25 years later through the Rick Rubin albums and the Clancy Brothers that we had consisted of a lot of novelty stuff. Well, I'll see what I can do.

1. Howlin' Wolf - The Real Folk Blues

Turned my brother onto the blues . Blues rock, really. Then, he got deeper into the real thing, as it were. This was the first Howlin' Wolf I ever heard and that voice was like nothing I'd previously experienced. The word is feral. Got the Chess box set and then the Wolf's and Muddy's box sets shortly after.

2. Freddy King - Hideaway - The Best of Freddie King
3. Albert King - The Best of Albert King

From my brother as well. Probably my two favorite blues guitarists now.

4. John Gorka - Jack's Crows

From my sister Brigid. Great songs, some deep, some funny. Rich voice. "I'm from New Jersey" should be the state song. Became a big fan.

"I know what exit and where I'm bound. Tolls on the Parkway they will slow you dow-ow-own." So true.

5. Born to Run - Bruce Springteen

My two sisters and I went 50/25/25 on a Columbia House record membership. One of Brigid's selections was Born to Run. I took over all of the albums when they couldn't come live up to their financial obligations. Kind of liked Born to Run and got a little more into that Bruce fella.

Oh, I have to add one more:

6. Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company.

My sister Margaret loved Janis. I got the greatest hits a little earlier, which of course was good. This one though, just took me to the moon.

OK, that's the best I can do.

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