What are you reading or listening to right now or recently?

[rosie]

Freakonomics....its soooooo interesting, HR bought it for Xmas :)

Listening to break-up songs. lol

[Misty_77]

Aww don't listen to break-up songs! Listen to songs that are uplifting! It can change your whole mood AND your whole day! Smile Rosie...you're loved by many! =)

[City Fool]

Never a fan of C&W other than the old stuff, I was getting tired of my old rock cd's (Except for Tom Petty. He never seems to get boring...) and so I just went to Amazon and randomly picked out about ten C&W
cd's and I was pleasantly surprised to find that by chance, I had chosen some great music. Several by Lee Ann Womack, Pam Tillis, Jo Dee Messina just to mention a few. Some fresh and well produced music.
The sound quality is amazing as I guess the best studios and engineers are in Nashville.
It seems Pam Tillis puts a lot of work behind the board as she does behind the mic and her cd's are perfect to adjust my system.
I put a lot of music on cassettes to add a bit of warmth to them that digital looses and I have older equipment and if I want to get a nice tape, I adjust my sound with one of her albums.
Anyway, it's a nice change of pace. I love my jazz and classical but
for everyday, the C&W is pretty nice.

CF

[Daniel]

You need to see (If you haven't already..) Jeremy Brett as Holmes on the Granada DVD set. It's almost a given that Brett defined Holmes for all time and Granada went all for detail.
I've watched set over and over and never tire of seeing Holmes and Watson as well as all the villains come to life in period perfect settings.

I missed this post CF, thank you for the recommend, I will look into it.

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, The Box set. Early works but a great platform for Green's blistering blues licks. Nice slide work by Jeremy Spencer makes up for his rather lackluster vocals.
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I have the "The Blues Collection" by FMac, including The Green Manalishi, Sandy Mary, etc. Awesome songs. I love that album.

Was Peter Green the short guy?

Also, 1974's, Live Stock, Roy Buchanan. Nicknamed, "The Worlds Best Unknown Guitar Player", Roy grinds out screaming riffs from his old Telecaster. His death was a huge loss to the music world and still remains somewhat of mystery.

I've never heard of Buchanan so I fit the model! But Pixley of all places! My "spiritual parents" in California (formative role-modelers for my wife and I early on), he they grew up in Pixley and around the time Buchanan would have lived there. Will need to look into that...

[and by the way, my friend firmly claimed that he wrote "Pretty Woman" but Roy took the lyrics with him after stopping off at the studio... He knew he could never prove it but swore it was true]

[HopefulsRock]

Great thread Daniel, I'm not a big reader but I'm learning so I've been getting some shorter inspirational bookslike;
- "Letters to God"
- "90 minutes in Heaven"
- "The Love Dare"... which I fully intend to do!
- and a tiny book called "A Grateful Path" about inspirational thoughts on unconditional love, acceptance and positive living which I read in about 20 minutes, cried over several pages... small but very inspirational!!!

[City Fool]

I missed this post CF, thank you for the recommend, I will look into it.



I have the "The Blues Collection" by FMac, including The Green Manalishi, Sandy Mary, etc. Awesome songs. I love that album.

Was Peter Green the short guy?



I've never heard of Buchanan so I fit the model! But Pixley of all places! My "spiritual parents" in California (formative role-modelers for my wife and I early on), he they grew up in Pixley and around the time Buchanan would have lived there. Will need to look into that...

[and by the way, my friend firmly claimed that he wrote "Pretty Woman" but Roy took the lyrics with him after stopping off at the studio... He knew he could never prove it but swore it was true]

Peter Green is the guy with the curly hair and beard. BB once remarked that Green was the only guitarist who made him sweat.

The guy on the far left is Danny Kirwan and the short guy is Spencer.
After Green dropped from drug abuse, FM reformed under Spencer who had real strong roots in American 50's rock. I felt the band would falter and die but they brought in Christine MacVie for vocals and key boards and produced two fine albums, Bare Trees and Kiln House and they set the stage for the better known version of FM which was when I lost interest in their music.
I did like one or two of their pop songs and when they got together for the live album, The Dance, they had a lot more bottom and depth and that's a decent album.
Green eventually righted his ship and did a nice acoustic blues album that slid under everyone's radar but he did join the band when they were inducted into the ROF and jammed with a long time admirer, Carlos Santana.

[stillandagain]

Just read "The Chronicles of Narnia!" Amazing!

[City Fool]

Just finished Joe Nesbo's, The Leopard.

Listening to Simple Minds, Live in the City of Light.