From: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org (dads-yard-digest) To: dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Subject: dads-yard-digest V5 #70 Reply-To: dads-yard@smoe.org Sender: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk dads-yard-digest Sunday, December 7 2003 Volume 05 : Number 070 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [dads-yard] my top 10 of 2003 [Steve Gilmore ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 10:41:21 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Gilmore Subject: [dads-yard] my top 10 of 2003 ....as usual, includes more than 10, but who's counting (and I'm a college math instructor--and if I can't count, what that bode for my students?): 1. Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis - her best to date. Nobody does it like Shelby. 2. Swing - Suzy Bogguss - everyone's getting into the swing and retro act....but nobody swings like Suzy. And just as Suzy is not your typical country singer (check out her early CD's: "Aces", "Somewhere Between" and "Moment of Truth for some good pure country that's miles above the commercial garbage you hear on the radio), this is not your typical Suzy CD either. 3. Til the Wheels Come Off - Amy Rigby - Hey, Amy, I love you! Don't ever change....don't ever change! 4. Failer - Kathleen Edwards - this year's Tift Merritt, as the first CD I heard this year that definitely said "Top 10! Top 10!" the minute I heard it and the best newcomer of the year as well. 5. Grand - Erin McKeown 6. Red = Luck - Patty Larkin 7. The Beauty of the Rain 8. Avalanche - Thea Gilmore (no relation). My discovery of the year. As with Neko Case in 2000("Furnace Room Lullabyes"), sometimes you miss them the first time around (Thea's "Rules for Jokers" came out in 2002), but the second time around, you wonder how you missed them the first time. 9. Evolve - Ani DiFranco 10. On and On - Jack Johnson - there's no mistaking this guy or his music for anyone or anything else but why stop at 10? The best of the rest: Rules of Travel - Rosanne Cash - this just missed on being part of THE top 10 So Much for the City - The Thrills - unfairly labeled as a throwback to the feel good West Coast harmonies of the Beach Boys, they remind me more of their fellow Irish band the Cranberries. Best sounding band to come along in awhile. Chinatown - Be Good Tanyas So High - Jennifer Jackson One Step Ahead - Rhonda Vincent So Many Rivers - Marcia Ball - another performer you'll never mistake for anyone else Up All Night - The Waifs Gone too soon, but forever in our minds: Johnny Cash June Carter Cash Warren Zevon (who will be appreciated more in death than in life) Nina Simone disappointment of the year: Liz Phair - Liz Phair. Surely she's capable of creating ANYTHING better than what Avril Lavigne's producer, manager, or whatever they were, did in producing her disastrous self-titled CD. And My Phair Lady has recorded better material--just look at her previous releases. I long for the return of material on the same scale as the superb "whitechocolatespaceegg." and for 2004, I'll need to go on a fast to come up with the cash to buy anticpated new releases by: Lucy Kaplansky Christine Kane Catie Curtis Michelle Shocked (a diverse and quirky talent we hear from too rarely) Ani DiFranco and if my timing is right, probably Suzanne Vega, Jonatha Brooke, Sam Phillips, Julie Miller, etc., etc., etc. Let the debate begin! Happy Holidays! Steve Gilmore Charlotte, NC USA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of dads-yard-digest V5 #70 ******************************