What is your current playlist for listening pleasure?

[Geoff738]

CD guy here.

Lately it’s been recent Peter Wolf. Déjà Vu (yeah, Crosby), Radney Foster, thé most recent Bash and Pop (ex-Replacements), Vermillion by the Continental Drifters (a Bangle, Dream Syndicate, a db, Susan Cowsill). Up next the first two Ray Davies solo discs. Then?

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Treynor]

For me it's always music I've not heard before, whether it's old albums that I'd somehow missed by favorite groups, newly-discovered bands from decades back, or up-and-comers...it's important to me to keep the fresh-discovery quotient of my music listening rolling, so I am constantly creating playlists of that and rarely listen to tunes that are old favorites...

This is important to me, as well...discovering new artists and songs I'm not familiar with.

For this, I love Radio Paradise for streaming. Here is their website: https://radioparadise.com/home

They have for apps for almost every platform. I stream from the app on my Mac desktop, my iPhone, Apple TV, etc. Over the past several years, this has been my favorite source for new music. I listen to their main mix.

Anytime you rate a song 7 or higher, it gets added to a Favorites playlist, which you can also stream. I've discovered many hundreds of new songs this way.

Here is the app playing and open on my desktop right now. And I rated this one a 7 just now.

 

[RomanS]

Colter Wall
Sierra Ferrell
Hermanos Gutiérrez
Colton Turner
Dave Rawlings Machine
Billy Strings
Brothers Comatose
Grady Martin

 

[paulblackford]

I'm not very adventurous, anymore. My go to playlists are pretty mellow. I have one playlist that is nothing but Johnny A., and Chris Isaak's albums. They seem to go well together on shuffle. Another is my "Dream Surf" playlist, which is just slower, more psychedelic surf music from The Mermen, La Luz, Slack Tone, and Satan's Pilgrims. Sometimes just artists that I have a ton of, like Scofield, or Robert Cray.

 

[guitar_paul1]

How the heck do you get this impact and tone on some kind of Hawai'ian slide guitar

I found some info here (but not what instrument he played):

https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/music/artists/ferera

And here:

Brad Bechtel and The Faux Hawaiians : The Steel Guitar Forum

bb.steelguitarforum.com

I suspect a lot of the tone is the EQ of the recording.

Great stuff! Thanks for this.

 

[guitar_paul1]

On topic, I currently dial in Munir Bashir on Alexa.

 

[gitold]

Late 70’s and early 80’s Enja and ECM jazz label albums. Dave Holland and Kevin Eubanks, Bird on Savoy, Sierra Hull on you tube, Best of Loving Spoonful, bootleg Cream on YouTube.

 

[Hey_you]

I burned a DVD with 8 or so, hours of songs I like. Mixed content. Some albums. 60's through 80's.

 

[Flaneur]

I listen to CDs in my workshop and the car. Last summer, I received a part of the collection of a legendary Scottish Blues drummer and website founder, Billy (The Blindman) Allardyce. The hundred or so CDs I was given included 23, by possibly the greatest of all the Texas Bluesmen, Lightning Hopkins.
I'm still digesting this wonderful gift, in my own, leisurely way.....

 

[rand z]

I've been on a Jazz kick for the last 20 years.

I listen to very little Classic Rock (mostly for nostalgic purposes), some Classic Country, more Classic Blues, a little Classical and World music... but, mostly Jazz (more old than new, but new, too).

I'm into those "Great Singer's" churning the "Great American Songbook."

Guitar has taken a bit of a back seat.

I do like some esoteric things like Tuba Skinny... and other funky acoustic bands.

Always... Steely Dan, Muddy, Stones, Miles, Coltraine, Solo Acoustic Blues, Lightfoot, Joni, Dylan, Bruce Cockburn, Wolf, Vince Gill, Sinatra, Hank I, Willie, Haggard, Wes, Ella, B Holliday, Little Feat, The Neville Bros, BB, Clapton, Oscar Peterson, Jeff Beck etc.

But, mostly singers these daze...

Pop Music...

What's that?

imo.

 

[Gimble]

 

[Engine Swap]

On topic, I currently dial in Munir Bashir on Alexa.

Love me some oud!

 

[Geoff738]

Heres a pic of the last month or so of listening

Time for a tidy.

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[trandy9850]

Whatever is playing on NRK Jazz….my favorite radio station…located in Oslo, Norway…a really great jazz station.

radio.garden

 

[Greenmachine]

Weyes Blood
Aldous Harding
Fleetwood Mac
Lightning Hopkins
Gillian Welch

 

[TheZ]

I've been listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra more than I already do since Yukihiro Takahashi's passing last week. What an amazing drummer and all-around artist he was.

 

[Tricone]

I listen thru the whole album also.

1.Miles Okazaki : Work!

2.The Allman Brothers Band: Live At The Fillmore West

3. Wes Montgomery: Smokin' At The Half Note

4.Miles Okazaki: Thisness

5. John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner: Sargasso Sea

 

[Fret Fretterson]

For the past 3 years I’ve been doing an album review every week with a friend if mine. We take turns picking them. it’s a great way to keep things fresh.

I’ll usually have that on rotation in the car and while taking walks with a handful of others each week. I rarely shuffle songs. Usually full albums.

I use threads like this one to look for hidden gems when things get stale, so thank you for all the suggestions.

Last week it was:

Blaze Foley (the review album & new discovery for me thanks to TDPRI)
Cory Branan
Murder by Death
Sturgill Simpson
David Crosby

 

[Silent Otto]

i do dig it

 

[middy]

I just shuffle my music collection.
Willie Nelson to Sonic Youth to The Meters to Cannonball Adderly to Fairport Convention to Howlin Wolf to Wilco