Today I am Listening To...

[alan]

The Strolling Bones....40 Licks
& next up will be
U2 The Best of 1980-90, 1990-2000
& then
ZZ Top  Eliminator.
 

[Flying_Monkey]

The Bratislava Hot Serenaders play Duke Ellington. Great period stuff.

[rogerzilla]

Careful With That Axe, Eugene (from Pink Floyd's Ummagumma).

[Quisling]

Sigur Ros - Med Sud Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust.

 

I've been listening to that a bit today, again, but mainly I've been listening to the track Von.  They really are a bloody remarkable band.   How can you get so many emotions within one track like they do with Festival, or Glosoli? Pure genius.

[rogerzilla]

The "Electric Blues" Internet radio channel on Winamp.  It's actually rather good.

[andrewc]

"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell.  Bought it for my Mum and liked it so much I copied it.

[annie]

"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell.  Bought it for my Mum and liked it so much I copied it.

I think Joni Mitchell is wonderful, good choice Andrew.

[Tim Hall]

Today in the car I listened to episodes 51-55 of "This Sceptred Isle".

This evening I listened to "A hot piece of grass" by Hayseed Dixie.

 

[andrewc]

Martyn Joseph live "Don't Talk About Love"

I went to see Suzanne Vega at the Liverpool Philharmonic.  This guy was playing support, got on stage late and totally blew her away.

Variously described as the Welsh Woody Guthrie or the Welsh Bruce Springsteen.

Guitar based ballads with a social conscience.

[Rhys W]

The long awaited box set by influential Welsh-language act Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr. 15 CDs for £46.99 - you do the math. 

 Martyn Joseph is Welsh? I never knew.

[andrewc]

The long awaited box set by influential Welsh-language act Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr. 15 CDs for £46.99 - you do the math. 

 Martyn Joseph is Welsh? I never knew.

Martyn Joseph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martyn Joseph (born 1960, Penarth, Wales)

[PaulF]

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset ~ The Bairns

Rather beguilling nu-folk which is slowly growing on me

[bobajobrob]

Fleetwood Mac "Rumors".

Love that album.

[nicknack]

New Polar Bear album. Called, rather unusually, 'Polar Bear'. They must really have struggled with that name.

To be followed by the Portico Quartet - Knee Deep in the North Sea.

[scott]

To be followed by the Portico Quartet - Knee Deep in the North Sea.

Sounds like it might be interesting, but for some reason the music on myspace is hanging up a lot. I'll try again later today...

[microphonie]

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset ~ The Bairns

Rather beguilling nu-folk which is slowly growing on me

Just got this from the library along with Kate Rusby's 'Awkward Annie' album. I'm not normally into folk but these aren't too bad at all. And nice to hear regional accents in full flow!

That's one benefit of a decent audio library: getting out stuff you'd never normally listen to.

Also of a nu-folk/folktronica bent are Tunng and Espers.

NP: Rob da Bank & Friends radio show from a week ago with Mogwai in session/choosing the tracks 

[LEE]

"Consolers of the Lonely" by the Raconteurs.

I think it's a superb from start to finish, it's Rock Jim but not as we know it.

[Flying_Monkey]

My wife and I are listening to Blue by Joni Mitchell. Because...

[Chris S]

...thunder 

[PaulF]

Also of a nu-folk/folktronica bent are Tunng and Espers.

...and in a similar vein The Imagined Village Project. Simon Emmerson project with collaboration from artists as diverse as Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, Tunng, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra and Transglobal Underground. Traditional Folk with a modern arrangement and slant.

Superb!!

[Tim Hall]

John Lee Hooker. The Collection.  A whole quid from Mr. Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.

[Flying_Monkey]

Also of a nu-folk/folktronica bent are Tunng and Espers.

...and in a similar vein The Imagined Village Project. Simon Emmerson project with collaboration from artists as diverse as Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, Tunng, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra and Transglobal Underground. Traditional Folk with a modern arrangement and slant.

Superb!!

I saw Imagined Village live - it was okay, but trying a bit too hard for 'relevence' and overdoing the beats sometimes - rather like the Afro-Celts (another Emmerson project). Sheila Chandra has a stunning voice though...

[Quisling]

Von by Sigur Ros - I love this video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/hme5jf2Z_ow&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/hme5jf2Z_ow&rel=1</a>

A small audience of all ages - entranced by the music.  It's a beautiful sort of extended family scene, and a lovely song.

[alan]

The Strolling Bones....40 Licks

 

And again

[Chris S]

... Pink Floyd. Lots of Pink Floyd