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What is your favorite album this week?

Doesn't have to be a great revelation. Doesn't have to change the year in music. Could be old. Could be new. Just has to do it for this week. So what is doing it for you this week?

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Permalink Reply by Rein van den Berg on August 26, 2009 at 2:44am

My favourite record of this week is a debut album of an upcoming female artist from Texas (of all places!) Record hasn't been released yet, but is expected to come at the end of summer. Artist name is Amanda Pearcy and her album is called Waitin' for Sunday. Tim Lorsch and a bunch of the finest help to make her music sound fantastic. If you think that Texas is dry, have a taste of her music, and you will notice that the well hasn't dried yet.

regards,
http://www.myspace.com/bergrl

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Permalink Reply by Edd Hurt on August 26, 2009 at 2:19pm

Lots of great stuff here. I got quite addicted to Holsapple and Stamey's Be Here Now this summer and thought they were superb live. Someone mentioned Sweet and Hoffs doing those '70s tunes by Big Star, Todd Rundgren and others. Being familiar with all those originals, I have to say I found it a bit shrill and Hoffs' voice hard to take. (My significant other cringes at the very suggestion that Susanna Hoffs is singing.) Plus why listen to them doing "Couldn't I Just Tell You" or, for goodness' sake (who thought this up to begin with?), "Maggie May."

But lately I've been listening to one of the most fantastic records I think I've ever heard: Eduardo Mateo's Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame, recorded back in 1972. Mateo was a guitarist and singer, influenced some by bossa nova, from Uruguay. Dead for many years now. Anyway, it's idiosyncratic yet very simple--a man and a guitar and some percussion--and the song structures seem simple, but everything is inflected just a bit...differently. Imagine Joao Gilberto crossed with British/American folk-rock and you're halfway there. Ed Pettersen turned me onto this and I have to thank him every time I see him.

And been grooving to one of Swamp Dogg's less crazed efforts: Rat On. More or less a conventional soul record but a good 'un.

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Permalink Reply by Harvest Kings on August 27, 2009 at 10:20am

Lucero - Tennessee

Lucero is my new favorite band! Can't wait to see them hit Columbus.

John
http://www.myspace.com/harvestkings

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Permalink Reply by Greg Copp on August 28, 2009 at 1:02pm

Shrunken Heads - Ian Hunter

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Permalink Reply by Mike Thompson on August 28, 2009 at 1:09pm

Great record!

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Permalink Reply by Elvis Fontenot on August 29, 2009 at 4:03pm

This week....album was not an album, but Pete Molinari's "Today, Tomorrow and Forever" - an extended EP.

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Permalink Reply by Gar on August 29, 2009 at 4:33pm

I have been enjoying some older stuff and some newer stuff recently,

The Who - Who's Next
Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price - Last Of The Breed
Sarah Borges - Diamonds in The Dark
The Knitters - Modern Sounds Of The Knitters

Has anyone heard the new Fogerty coming out next week....I am curious about that one.