From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V2 #186 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Thursday, December 9 1999 Volume 02 : Number 186 Today's Subjects: ----------------- top 10 [Will Foy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 01:13:13 -0500 From: Will Foy Subject: top 10 hmmm, a doozy... in no particular order: - -Tim Reynolds - Gossip of the Neurons, a trippy excursion into acoustic solo guitar godhood. you've heard dave and tim, but it's a spiritual experience to take a mental voyage while listening to Tim solo. - -Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Live Art. could not live w/o this disc from time to time. i'll be listening to this when i'm 90. - -Vertical Horizon- Live Stages. recorded at my hometown haunt, while a hurricane raged around the club. a great capturing of them. - -DMB - Remember Two Things. mixture of studio wizardry by Doug Derryberry and John Alagia and live wizardry by the same fellas. oh, to have been a student in VA at the time. - -EFO: Looking Out the Fishbowl... i'm hardpressed to say that one's better than any other, b/c they're all so good, but this most recent effort is a real keeper. - -Angie Aparo: self-titled. please find this CD somewhere. i might be a little tainted b/c i'm listening to a recent show from Ziggy's at present, but he's a gifted songwriter from Atlanta, plays both acoustic and electric, with or without a band. - -Agents of Good Roots - Seed... it's an EP, but it's a wonderful recording, of both live material, a snippet from the upcoming release "Needle & Thread" and some stuff from a radio performance. if you like a little rock in your jazz, check it out. - -Seal - Seal, the first one. 9 songs, not a bad one in there, and all stellar. I got into Seal b/c I heard Edwin McCain Band cover "Future Love Paradise" from this album in '95. you owe your ears a listen to the real deal. Seal writes great songs, with some real "umph" in their lyrics, then surrounds himself with the best producers and musicians around. - -Everything: Everything. far too much fun on one record. and not-to-mention the numerous connections to EFO [ shameless plug ], they both went to JMU, Bob used to play in (e:)'s mgr's band eons ago, and i think craig has opened for EFO at bad habits when that still went on, at some point in the past. Honorable mention to Supernatural, their current release on Blackbird/Sire - -Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - The Will to Live. a nominee for what i'd call poet laureate for the 90's and the 00's. This album best captures the mixture of emotions that Ben talks about, all the emptiness, fullness, lack of and rebuilding of faith, the concern over waste and the search for simplicity, etc. It's in there. not to mention some of the best folks playing the other instruments to wrap around ben's masterful playing of the weissenborn guitar [ hawaiian guitar made of koa wood, hollow neck, great and strange resonance ], with bass, percussion and drums. honorable mentions: - -bela fleck & the flecktones: left of cool. should be dead-center of cool. jeff coffin's one of the best sax players of late. - -john scofield : a-go-go. plays w/ modeski, martin, wood. nuff said. - -charlie hunter quartet's "natty dread", a jazz reinterpretation of the classic bob marley album. massively cool. - -edwin mccain band: messenger. pop, but good pop. - -ani difranco: little plastic castles. - -rush: counterparts. neil peart is one of eddie's heroes for a reason. best album of the 90's for them. - -gibb droll: narrow mouth jar. give him another 5 years, and every blues magazine will be raving about this guy. - -jump little children: anything they have. band on the march upward. - -guster: lost and gone forever. perhaps my favorite record of the year. steve lillywhite produced a little masterpiece of a major label debut for these guys. everything goldfly wasn't, this is. give these three guys on guitars and hand percussion a shot. you won't be sorry. - -agents of good roots: straightaround... live AGR can't be beat. - -ben harper & the innocent criminals: the rest of the catalog. your ears will like it. - -blues traveler: straight on till morning. all the talent, none of the overplayed stuff. - -john popper: zygote. it ain't blues traveler, more gentle, more introspective. - -thanks to gravity: "sonata brutalle"... one of my favorite bands from aware's compilations... who knows what's going to happen to them of late, but it's different music, an acquired taste, but fine like the the bushmill's 10-year single malt i had after dinner. check 'em out. - -rustic overtones: rooms by the hour. do you like horns? heh.... do you like them w/ rock? mmm, mmm, good. that's plenty.... thanks for listening! namaste, will - -- "To strive, to seek, to find; and not to yield" - Tennyson Will Foy - willfoy@pobox.com Davidson '96-Phi Gamma Delta __ will.home -> http://birksncap.csoft.net Go{Heels,Wildcats,Braves} / \ GibbDrollVerticalHorizonEverythingAgentsOfGoodRootsEdwinMcCainBand |e:| TimReynoldsMMWBelaFleckDaveMatthewsTrainThanksToGravityBluesTraveler\__/ SamplesPatMcGeeBandGusterJumpLittleChildrenRushTR3NilLaraAngieAparo ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V2 #186 *****************************