September 2020 Challenge Thread- The Gav-La’s

Day 16: Born in the USA

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

My girlfriend chose this one this morning. I'd been hankering for a listen of this anyway. This one is a good progression from Helplessness Blues and takes their brand of reimagined American folk music to even greater heights. Can't wait to hear their next one. Bonus points for being named after one of the most famous American authors.

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Lee Newman said:
Day 18

this one is hard. In my experience stuff that we think is big around here will get you looks of “who the fuck?” out in real life. Even folks who are relatively successful like Andrew Bird and Iron & Wine aren’t exactly at household name level. The slow collapse of music as a physical medium and the ability to make an album in your bed room that won’t get laughed off of Spotify has created a very different dynamic from the ubiquitous nature of music the majority of my life. I mean music is certainly a constant in my day to day and music is everywhere but outside of few like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé... there just aren’t the acts that everyone knows and has an opinion on in the quantities of the 60’s through the 90’s. That’s neither a good thing nor a bad thing. Just a thing.

Anyhow, so I approaching this from the audience here... sure I think NealFrancis could be a bigger deal around here, but you guys know who he is. I’m trying to play something I feel you guys have slept on...

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Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now

This a bluesy singer songwriter album. She came to my attention when she open for Punch Brothers and she was a contributor to Andrew Bird’s latest touring with him as well.
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She also opened for Calexico/Iron & Wine this winter, so I got to see her twice within a few months (after seeing her open for Andrew Bird in the fall). She's really incredible.
 
Day 18: “The Bell X1 syndrome”..play something that really should be well more known.....

Diverse - One A.M.

Chicago rapper Diverse dropped this debut album back in 2003, and sadly hasn't released anything since. Technically gifted and socially conscious, he drops rhymes all over some of best beats of the 2000s, courtesy of some of best beat-makers of the time- RJD2, Prefuse 73, and Madlib. It's the kind of debut that is great on its own, but also showed a lot of promise. If Diverse decides to follow it up almost two decades later, I know I'll be listening.

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Day 18: “The Bell X1 syndrome”..play something that really should be well more known.....
Gang Of Youths - Go Further In Lightness
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It just goes to show ya how timing is everything in music and in life; If this album came out in 1987 instead of 2017 it would be gigantic. If guitar based Rock music was still the prominent form of music in the world Gang Of Youths would be this generations U2. It makes absolutely zero sense that they are not immensely popular, like filling sports arenas huge, they should be so ingrained in popular culture that I should hate them and tell people that their early albums were better before they “sold out” and yet amazingly most (non-music obsessive) people have never heard of em. A damn shame.
 
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Day 17: “Fab Four”- Make or break time ..those bands that reached the 4th album ..play album number 4 or IV.

Lee Morgan - Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957 First Mono Pressing)

Had a chance to deep clean this today and it sounds superb! Really great album. Although its titled 'Volume 3' he actually released 'Introducing Lee Morgan' on a different label (savoy). So this was his 3rd release on Blue Note but 4th overall as lead.

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Day 18: “The Bell X1 syndrome”..play something that really should be well more known.....

The Third Wave ‎– Here And Now (MPS Records, 1970 first pressing & Crippled Dick Hot Wax!, 1999 Limited Pressing)

I have mentioned The Third Wave a few times on the forum. They were a group of Filipino sisters who travelled to Germany in 1970 (sponsored by George Duke) and recorded just 1 album and a 7" before disappearing from the music scene forever. The music is funky, catchy, and jazzy (with covers of Herbie Hancock, John Lennon, plus some original compositions). This limited album reissue was released in 1990 and includes a detailed set of liner notes. In the photo, I have also included my original copy of their album and 7" (which was the most expensive record I owned for quite a while). Really a fantastic group and I wish they had released more.

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Day 18 - Bell x whatever
I am not surprised that this band barely rated a blip, but I would love to hear them do another record. Even Laswell fans don't really know about it, which is a shame. Looks like this was a one-off project made up of Bill Laswell (if you have to look him up your music education is lacking), Bernie Worrell, Doug Scharin and Jeff Parker from 2008. A nice slab of dubby electronica soul-jazz.
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jamieanderson1968 said:
Day 18 - Bell x whatever
I am not surprised that this band barely rated a blip, but I would love to hear them do another record. Even Laswell fans don't really know about it, which is a shame. Looks like this was a one-off project made up of Bill Laswell (if you have to look him up your music education is lacking), Bernie Worrell, Doug Scharin and Jeff Parker from 2008. A nice slab of dubby electronica soul-jazz.
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Selaws said:
Day 17: “Fab Four”- Make or break time ..those bands that reached the 4th album ..play album number 4 or IV.

Lee Morgan - Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957 First Mono Pressing)

Had a chance to deep clean this today and it sounds superb! Really great album. Although its titled 'Volume 3' he actually released 'Introducing Lee Morgan' on a different label (savoy). So this was his 3rd release on Blue Note but 4th overall as lead.

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A Gav-la to @Selaws for services to Jazz 🎺
 
Day 17: “Fab Four”- Make or break time ..those bands that reached the 4th album ..play album number 4 or IV.

Man, this one was kind of a challenge. Not because I didn't have a lot of fourth albums to play...but because I had to consider what constituted an album to me. In the end, bias won out and I spun one of my "I'm not collecting now but..." pickups from a year or so back that I found in a second hand store and couldn't resist. Discogs technically classifies this one as an EP but it has eight songs of unique material. Given CRJ's prolific songwriting, I'm comfortable calling this her fourth album in my view (after Tug of War, Kiss, and Emotion), especially as Dedicated Side-B is considered one.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion Side-B

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Day 18: “The Bell X1 syndrome”..play something that really should be well more known.....

I've put another one of her releases on here, but Dessa is one of my favorite artists who is due a lot more recognition she can get. A long-time member of the hip-hop collective Doomtree, she can pretty much do it all. A very strong lyricist and rapper who also had a powerful singing voice and who can produce some deeply personal but entirely relatable music. Parts of Speech is one of my favorite albums of the last decade or so and I was thrilled to get to spin it today.

Dessa - Parts of Speech

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