eMusic August Downloads By Amanda on August 26, 2008 9:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
A selection of songs is up on 8tracks. Full list over the fold.
Country, folk, blues etc
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways See here.
When You're Down and Out -- Carrie Smith
This Carrie Smith and the gospel one below have rapidly become two of my favoruties. 'When You're Down and Out" has a bit more stripped back blues but both back her amazing voice with a rollicking band and on Gospel Time, great gospel back up singers.
Yuma -- Justin Townes Earle
EP of recordings which pre-date The Hard Life but are in the same vein, and the same quality.
Calling Me Home: Songs of Love and Loss: Alice Gerrard
More great mountain music.
French Cajun Music -- Shirley Bergeron
Traditional acoustic Cajun music from the 1950s and 1960s, except for one rock and roll song in English which was apparently a cash-in attempt. I am aort-of planning a quick side-trip to Cajun country next year, don't know if I should spend my one night in Eunice or Lafayette or somewhere else.
Picture in a Frame -- Kimmie Rhodes and Willie Nelson
I've never been that impressed with Kimmie Rhodes actually but this is a reallly lovely, low key album. One of Willie's best, I actually reckon.
Glide -- Jerry Douglas
Modern Hymns -- Darrell Scott
Gospel and soul and funk etc
Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
Part of my old time gospel kick for this month. More mainstream R&B than some of the others, right where the secular and the sacred meet.
Nudge it Up a Notch -- Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere
Eddie Loves You -- Eddie Floyd
After Hours - Bernard Purdie
Gospel Time -- Carrie Smith
A Man Needs a Woman -- James Carr
Dragnet for Jesus -- Wynona Carr
Another new gospel diva, and with a sly sense of humour. The title song is a hard boiled detective parody, complete with dramatic music, sound effects and world weary voice over: "The story you are about to hear is true. Thisis Sister Wynona Carr and I was called out on a case ..." Being damned to hell never sounded so cool. Check her out: "Carr's contralto vocals have a sensual, husky quality quite unusual (or even inappropriate) for gospel singers in her day, which made her eventual switch to R&B and rock & roll seem a logical choice in retrospect. The same goes for her idiosyncratic use of metaphors and themes in her gospel songs: Baseball ("The Ball Game"), boxing ("15 Rounds For Jesus") and a popular TV show ("Dragnet For Jesus"). "
Rekooperation - Al Kooper
Mixture of blues, soul, rock styles from 1994. All instrumental, pretty nifty.
Jazz etc
Cuban Dance Party - Bebo Valdes
All is Yes -- The Blessing
A jazz fusion-y type record that is maybe a bit loose in parts for my taste but it hangs together enough to be pretty compelling. Some Portishead people involved, if that means anything to y'all.
Ooh-Shooby-Do! - Barbara Morrison with Johnny Otis and his Band
Duke Ellington and his Band feat. Paul Gonsalves
This is a really wonderful album. Gonsalves adds a bebop-y wuality to it which I did not associate with Duke Ellington, which may just be my ignorance and unfamiliarity with his later stuff. But anyway it seems the perfect balance of the two approaches.
Freedom Suite -- Sonny Rollins
After Hours -- Willis Jackson
Jazz on the Latin Side Vols 1 and 2 -- Jose Rizo's Latin Side Allstars
Three Classic Albums -- Frank Sinatra I don't know what byzantine riughts arrangement means this ends up on eMu, but these are the originals of three great Capitol-Nelson Riddle album. I cherry picked, since I already have a lot of it.
"World" etc
Safarini in Transit: Music of African Immigrants - Various
... I Really Do Love You -- Nani Bregvadze
Classical etc
The Collection - Maria Callas
By Tony T
on August 27, 2008 10:23 AM
How about a track for Don Helms, who died recently.
By Amanda
on August 27, 2008 10:33 AM
Yairs, I half had a post about it that never got finished. Will do.