Recording of June 1990: I'm With You
<B>DELBERT McCLINTON: <I>I'm With You</I></B><BR>
Curb D2-77252 (CD only). Justin Niebank, Carry Summers, engs.; Delbert McClinton, Barry Beckett, prods. DDD? TT: 34:11
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The Way We Listen Now
Okay, read this: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121023882">The Decade in Music: The Way We Listen Now</a>, from NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
Even in the Rain
Here’s the video for the Fiery Furnaces’s hit single, “Even in the Rain,” which is possibly my favorite track from the band’s excellently <i>easy</i>-to-listen-to album, <i>I’m Going Away</i>. (It’s not really a “hit.” I just made that up. But it could be, if we lived in a different world.)
Livin' In Paradise
I’d say on average that about 85 percent of the people I ask, hate Christmas music with an undying passion. I am one of a crazed minority who actually like the stuff and have long cultivated a collection of the stuff. Although I usually begin the season with the two volumes of <I>Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits</I>, both of which are now out of print (C’mon Rhino!), but are easily found used on Amazon, my general rule with Christmas music is: the weirder the better. And God knows when it comes to weird, Bob Dylan’s new collection of guttural holiday croakings is truly amazing.
In A Strangeland
This is what I want from music:
Not Not Fun!
On Friday, I promised myself that I would spend no more money on records until after the New Year. On Saturday, I found myself at <a href="http://www.othermusic.com/">Other Music</a> with three LPs in my hands. Gah! I brought them up to the counter, where the cute girl with the black hair was waiting. I felt despicable.
Fluid Piano
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An Important Sale
Oh, the aptly named <a href="http://importantrecords.com/index.htm">Important Records</a>, one of my favorite sources for outstanding experimental, noise, and otherwise out-there recordings, is having a <i>crazy</i> holiday sale, yo. Check it out: You can buy 44 <a href="http://importantrecords.com/releases/44_66_sale.html">compact discs</a> for just $44. Or 66 compact discs for just $66. Finally! And your purchase comes with a sweet tote bag. You’ll need it for hauling around all those compact discs.
Miles of Miles and Ella
I’ve published two music articles elsewhere in the past couple weeks.
Talk of the Town
Saturday, December 5, 11am–5pm: <a href="http://www.talkofthetownvideo.com/welcome.html">Talk of the Town</a> will host an “Audio, Video, & Home Theater Demo Day.” Show highlights will include demonstrations of SIM2’s C3X Lumis Host projector; Marantz’s 9004 Reference Blu-ray player; Totem Acoustics’s <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/totem_wind_design/">Wind Design</a> loudspeakers; Classe’s SSP-800 preamplifier-processor with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA surround decoding; McIntosh’s MA7000 integrated amplifier; and Meridian’s DSP 5200 digital active speakers and Sooloos <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/">Music Server System</a>.