June 2019 Vinyl Challenge

Day 6 - All That Brass

I'm excited to share this one.

I first heard C.W. Stoneking in a little bar in Carlton in Melbourne playing support for Okkervil River when they toured the Black Sheep Boy album. I thought he was putting it on, the voice, to achieve a sound, but talking to him later at the bar, that's just his accent, influenced by his Floridian father living with him in a remote Aboriginal community in the NT for years during his childhood. This album has been on high rotation ever since.

It's got a sousaphone on it.

C.W. Stoneking - Jungle Blues
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Day 6 - All That Brass

My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

For my money, one of the best records of the century. Still very much a down-home, silo-singin', southern-rock-adjacent album, but they took quite a step forward sonically with this record. The 2016 remix/remaster, spinning here, really brings out the subtle horns--"Willie Mitchell's Fabulous Memphis Horns", in the liner notes--in a lot of songs.

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Lee Newman said:
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Excellent choice. I went in basically cold on this when it came out; I had heard like the first half of In Bloom and I wrote it off. A friend told me I was way off base with my hasty assessment and to listen to it. So glad I did. I will always remember my first listen, song after song just blew me away. It has such great flow, and you are right on about it being an awesome concept album.

That same friend told me Sturgill said he was only going to do five albums and then quit the business to stay home with family...that was a quote from before the success of ASGTE, I wonder if that's still the case. And I wonder when #4 might be in the works.
 
ranbalam said:
Excellent choice. I went in basically cold on this when it came out; I had heard like the first half of In Bloom and I wrote it off. A friend told me I was way off base with my hasty assessment and to listen to it. So glad I did. I will always remember my first listen, song after song just blew me away. It has such great flow, and you are right on about it being an awesome concept album.

That same friend told me Sturgill said he was only going to do five albums and then quit the business to stay home with family...that was a quote from before the success of ASGTE, I wonder if that's still the case. And I wonder when #4 might be in the works.
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I’ve seen him twice in the past two years and he’s hinted that he is working on #4. He’s definitely conflicted by the success he’s had.

He currently gigs with a drummer, a bass player and a keyboard player and it’s HEAVY. Like sluggish Sabbath heavy.
 
Day 1 - Who Are You?

MAN!! A tough one to start out. How will I ever survive the month! Haha. So my mood changes by the album. A lot of the times I listen to multiple genres throughout a listening session. Then I started to think, is this my go to genre in general or when listening to records. Then I started to think that I'm thinking too much about this. Bottom line I love the classic rock so my pick for today is one of my favorites.

Eric Clapton - Slowhand

Side note- I just got a new table and cartridge so a lot of my picks this month will be because I want to test them on the new setup.

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