"Lost" Albums

[Dominic]

"You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" is in my constant CD rotation...just a fantastic singer and songwriter...not sure why Maria McKee never became huge.

I know most people don't like the second Lone Justice album, Shelter, feeling it was a pop bastardation of their country sound, but I always dug it...a good song is a good song, you know? Besides, if Lone Justice hadn't broken up I doubt we would've gotten MM's incredible solo work.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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"You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" is in my constant CD rotation...just a fantastic singer and songwriter...not sure why Maria McKee never became huge.

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Yeah, it's in my rotation too. From listening to interviews and live concerts Maria seemed to be the type to always disavow her previous work (especially her Lone Justice work done the Lone Justice high energy style). I think she should have been savvy enough to through a few bones to her early fan base. She could have done it without sounding like a tribute band.

To stay in a "CD rotation" the music on the album needs to be timeless and there can't be any "skip over" cuts. Her Lone Justice albums do have a couple skip over cuts IMO.

I still like music played through a real stereo in the living room so a CD rotation is important to me. Only ten percent of my CDs continuously stay in the rotation; the skip over cut thing is much easier to edit out of an iTunes playlist.

My dream is to take an old computer, install huge disk drives, rip my best CDs into a lossless format and put them on the old computer, figure out a way to connect this to my 5.1/7.1 A/V home theater and set up an iTunes type interface where I can sit back in a chair with a click wheel type remote and listen to full fidelity music and custom playlists. I know something like it can be done with an iDock but I prefer the lossless format and need more storage than can be found on an iPod.


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I know most people don't like the second Lone Justice album, Shelter, feeling it was a pop bastardation of their country sound, but I always dug it...a good song is a good song, you know? Besides, if Lone Justice hadn't broken up I doubt we would've gotten MM's incredible solo work.

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I'm listening to the Shelter album now. Maybe there aren't any skip over cuts [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick

[whiskeytown]

Bill Mallonee of the Vigilantes of Love has had about 4 record contracts fall out from under him, including one around 1999 that Buddy Miller produced called audible sigh with Emmylou Harris singing on it -

video for said Emmylou track is here - (I now own that Gretsch in the video, BTW and the 50's fender tweed amp)

both Audible Sign and Summershine were records lost at the end of VOL's existance - Summershine was released around 9/11 and got totally lost - it's now available for FREE download track by track from Bill's online music site at VOLsounds or billmallonee.net - 2nd album down - Audible sigh was more alt-country whereas summershine had some really good pop sounds on it -

Bill's an incredible lyricist - Edwin Mccain covered a couple tunes on the last album - last I heard he was living gig to gig and subbing as a janitor at a school in between tours - total waste of a great songwriter

RB

[Dominic]

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Bill Mallonee of the Vigilantes of Love has had about 4 record contracts fall out from under him, including one around 1999 that Buddy Miller produced called audible sigh with Emmylou Harris singing on it -

video for said Emmylou track is here - (I now own that Gretsch in the video, BTW and the 50's fender tweed amp)

both Audible Sign and Summershine were records lost at the end of VOL's existance - Summershine was released around 9/11 and got totally lost - it's now available for FREE download track by track from Bill's online music site at VOLsounds or billmallonee.net - 2nd album down - Audible sigh was more alt-country whereas summershine had some really good pop sounds on it -

Bill's an incredible lyricist - Edwin Mccain covered a couple tunes on the last album - last I heard he was living gig to gig and subbing as a janitor at a school in between tours - total waste of a great songwriter

RB

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I like this a lot...very cool find...thanks to you I'm into Kathleen Edwards and now Bill Mallonee!

[Roy Munson]

"Thud" by Kevin Gilbert is a fantastic album that nobody I have ever met has heard of.

He hung himself jerking off before he had the opportuninty to hit it big.

[Blarg]

The Catherine Wheel, by David Byrne. Made for the dance choreographed by Twyla Tharp, for me it soared above the dance. Very primal in the way that Byrne can be so keyed into, sometimes even shading into brutality, there are also moments of great tranquility and a sort of spiritual ascension. The music digs around in your guts and fears a bit, but processes it all and winds up someplace cool.

[J.Brown]

i don't think their albums were u.s. releases (because i paid import prices), but check out Fellow Travelers.

their lead singer, Jeb Loy Nichols, had a song on the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, but i really liked the group stuff better. dub/country/reggae with poignant lyrics about loss, love, walking in the rain, and being poor.

http://www.jebloynichols.co.uk/fellow.htm

anyone else ever heard of them?

later. J.

[John Cole]

Abbey Lincoln's Straight Ahead, featuring Max Roach, Coleman Hawkins, and Eric Dolphy is simply superb. I have this one on vinyl tucked away somewhere. Highlights include "When Malindy Sings" and the title song. Although Lincoln never became a star on the order of Billie Holiday or Nina Simone, she should have. Straight Ahead

[John Cole]

Until I checked on Amazon, I didn't realize that so many people would remember Audience . Released in 1971, House on the Hill is probably their best effort. (I'm not sure I could stand this now, though.)

[jfk]

There's an album from the early '70's called "On the Road to Freedom" by Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre.

Lee was a well known blues/rock guitarist who fronted for the band Ten Years After and who was very well known for his performance at Woodstock. Lee wanted to make a departure from that trajectory of his career and found LeFevre who was a relatively obscure gospel singer with no real rock credits to his name.

The album (and it was vinyl, kids) was long one of my favorites though I've never heard it mentioned, never heard it receive airplay and have never known anyone else who has owned it or heard it played.

The supporting lineup of background musicians is remarkable as well (although the details are now a little fuzzy). George Harrison plays guitar (under a pseudonym) and may have co-written one of the songs. I'm pretty sure that Jim Capaldi and Rebop from Traffic appear on the album and I think Ronnie Wood is in at least one of the songs as well. The remarkable, super-group like collection of talent seeps through the album.

To my knowledge LeFevre never did anything similar again and has never really been a significant force on the music scene. He later became an evangelical minister in the south. Some now point to this album, which is not in any way overtly religious as something of a seminal album in the Christian rock movement. LeFevre has even been termed by some as a father of Christian rock based on the strength of this lone contribution.

Alvin Lee went on to produce many solo albums and has had a long career in that capacity. For those not familiar with his discography, he's somewhere between say, George Thoroughgood and Eric Clapton both in terms of musical style and popularity/success. If you're under the age of 40 you wouldn't really have any reason to know who Alvin Lee is but if you graduated from high school in 1969 he might be a big deal to you (and you still may never have heard of this album).

If you like the Allman Bros., early Clapton, Little Feat, Ozark Mtn. Daredevils and the like, you should track down this album.

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Completely changing gears, if you like adult lounge music and its ancilliary branches, go through the offerings of Jenny Toomey.

She's had bands like Grenadine, Tsunami and Liquorice and a solo career as well. There's a wide range in there, everything from club/trance music to lounge style crooning. She and her band mates (when applicable) do a very smart, sophisticated range of songs. If you liked '90's era college/indie rock mixed with quality lounge era songs go up and down the list of everything Jenny Toomey has touched.

Here are a couple of tracks from her single album (I think its "Antidote". She does a mean cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Fool for You" http://www.rhapsody.com/jennytoomey