What Are You Listening To Now? 6.0

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Elton John

This was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I used my paper route money.
The album was at the top of the New release rack at Jamesway (small precursor to the Walmart concept.) It was right before summer vacation and I played the heck out of it.
To this day it's still my favorite album.
 
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
That's a desert island disc, from the perspectives of songwriting, musicianship and production perspectives. (In the outside world, I'm a gigging musician, with a good number of honest-to-goodness recordings and tours in the knapsack.)
 
Kathleen Edwards - "Total Freedom"
Lucinda Williams - "Good Souls Better Angels"
Jayhawks - "XOXO"
The Third Mind - S/T
Jason Isbell "Reunions"
I also am digging the songs from the movie "Remedy"
 
Nine Witches Under a Walnut Tree

OAK Jerry Cutillo

Love, love, love this album
 
The soundtrack to John Carpenter's "Escape From New York"

Carpenter wrote much of the soundtrack and screenplay himself, and also directed.
 
Three songs

The three songs I mentioned in my most recent piece. I can't seem to get enough:

Linda Ronstadt's version of Jackson Browne's For A Dancer
Little Feat's original version of Lowell George's Willin'
Bruce Springsteen's original version of Across The Border

Alternate versions, too, including Jackson Browne's original, Gregg Allman's cover, and Linda Ronstadt's divine cover, respectively.

I read an interview with Linda, whose Parkinson's has robbed her (and all of us) of her transcendent singing voice. She said that by the end of her singing career, as she struggled with her condition, she was shouting rather than singing. And on her version (with Emmylou Harris) of For A Dancer, I can hear it. But her version of Across The Border from that same album is ... divine.
 
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Glenn Gould

Brahms D Minor Concerto, Leonard Bernstein conducting.

Such a tempest it raised, a lifetime ago.

But, ohhh ...
 
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