So I spent the night tonight listening to a few tracks from most of the albums that I picked up today at the Princeton Record Exchange and watching the Falcons get destroyed by the Packers! I picked up a variety of albums, a few blues, some folk and bluegrass. Here they are:
Walter Trout – livin’ everyday (1999) – a blues favorite love both his vocals and guitar playing!
Tommy Castro – Soul Shaker (2005) – another blues favorite – I’ve heard this album and it has been downloaded onto the player – but it’s always nice to have your own copy!
Jimmy Bowskill – Live (2010) – a new favorite one 0f the best blues albums I heard this year. Bowskill is a mean young guitar player ala Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Haven’t listen to this one yet tonight!
Ron Hynes – Stealing Genius (2010) – another one of those Canadians that’s been around forever that I’ve never heard of – watch for a review of this one that I’ve seen on several charts this year! Number 25 on the Folk DJ Chart for November air play!
Stonehoney – The Cedar Creek Sessions (2010) another of the albums that I really liked from 2010 that was on the player for a long while, again it’s good to have a copy!
Steve Gully and Tim Stafford Dogwood Winter (2010) a really fine bluegrass album that I haven’t found until now – Gully and Stafford are helped out on this album by some of my favorites including Adam Steffey (mandolin) Ron Stewart (banjo and fiddle), and Justin Moses (dobro and fiddle). I’ve just listened to a few tracks but there’s some good picking on this one!!
Eric Andersen – Violets of Dawn (1999) A collection of songs from Eric’ Vanguard Recording from the Sixties and the early seventies. Includes some favorites like the title track, “Thirsty Boots” and “Hey Babe, You’ve Been Cheatin'” Andersen has long been a favorite and was a very influential in the early Sixties folk scene in The Village. From the liner notes of the album:
Andersen told author Robbie Woliver, in the oral history, Hoot:A History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene “Leonard Cohen came up to me and said” I’m a poet and I never thought of writing songs and then I heard “Violets of Dawn” and I began to write songs”
Andersen’s writing also influenced Kris Kristofferson
“…he said that my song “Come to My Bedside” was an inspiration for him to take a chance to write a different kind of tune like that”
So all and all it was a great trip and I’ve got some great music to listen to!
Here’s a 2009 performance of the classic “Violets of Dawn”