Top Ten Albums this year

Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 30 Dec 2003 2:08 am

What are your favourite albums in 2003? Here's my list:

1. The Cardigans - long gone before daylight
2. Shilf - me
3. Evan Dando - baby I'm bored
4. Calexico - Feast of wire
5. The White Stripes - Elephant
6. Aqualung - still life
7. US Maple - purple on time.
8. Erdmöbel - Altes Gasthaus Love
9. Bonnie Prince Billy - master & everyone
10. Belle & Sebastian - Dear catastrophe waitress

Martin

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Billy Wilson · Post by **Billy Wilson** » 30 Dec 2003 3:11 am

I see Martin you've got the White Stripes on your list. I read a thing from Loretta Lynn where they asked her to do an album with them. After doing it she sounded really pleased because as she put it< I haven't done anything that simple since the old days. Anybody heard this music. I'd really like to hear it. I love simple

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 30 Dec 2003 3:19 am

I really like Albert Lee's Heartbreak Hill.

It's the only new release I can think of right now.

Yow!! what was I NOT THINKING at that instant..

Revisited Is a new release.

It just sounds so much like a classic I almost foreget its fresh off the presses.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 30 December 2003 at 10:43 AM.]

Ulf Edlund · Post by **Ulf Edlund** » 30 Dec 2003 4:40 am

Greg Trooper's "Floating"
A great album and a great songwriter.

Uffe

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 30 Dec 2003 5:12 am

BYRDS - "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" Legacy Edition.

Great rehersal and alternate takes, featuring Lloyd Green among others.

Lloyd's album "REVISITED" is also a highlight of the year for me.

"Remember When" for song of the year.

Anyone notice a pattern here?

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 30 Dec 2003 7:24 am

I have to put the last CD by Warren Zevon, "The Wind" on any list from this year. With David Lindley & Ry Cooder on it, it is a must for any steeler to have.

Todd Pertll · Post by **Todd Pertll** » 30 Dec 2003 8:23 am

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Little Worlds - Jerry Douglas, among other amazing guest spots, makes this one of the best albums I've bought this year. On the website www.flecktones.com there is a great series of interviews you can download that has the guys talking about making the record.

And in Bela's own words from his last Ft. Worth show "We have a new album coming out. It's a triple CD...for those occations when 2 cd's just isn't enough."

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 30 Dec 2003 9:39 am

Lloyd Green - Revisited!

This is a musician's album, I can feel that Lloyd tried to (and succeeded!) to set his musical dreams into music. Stellar musicianship!

Walter

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Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 30 Dec 2003 10:53 am

My favorite 3 CDs for the year are:

AROUND ABOUT NOW- Jack West and Curvature with David Phillips on steel. (Available from the forum)

FORROBODO- The Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet (German import, unavalialable in America.)

IMPRESSIONS - Trio Con Brio. (I bought this at a concert by the group, and don't know whether it is an American release or an import. The group is from Austria.)

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 30 Dec 2003 12:33 pm

Lloyd Green Revisited

Bobby Seymore Live

Cherokee Cowboys "Priceless"

Bobby Seymore Soulful Steel

Brad Paisley

Race Godson Anywhere but here. ( I'm on it)

Those are the ones I like anyhow.

Favorite Song I heard this year?

Stranger in My Home, Red Foley/Kitty wells. I forget what CD it's out on....

EJL

Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 30 Dec 2003 2:28 pm

Billy,

The Stripes are as far from country as can be. It's more like heave blues rock with a singer that sometimes sounds like Robert Plant. And a drummer that can't play but fits perfectly to the music. And a perfect promotion concept. Very Simple, though. And just great.

BTW: SHILF is an alt. country band from Switzerland that's just fantastic. I signed them to my label and released theier CD in Europe, you can get some samples at www.ulftone.com. Erdmöbel is a German band that blends singer/songwriter with Electronica.

MArtin[This message was edited by Martin Abend on 30 December 2003 at 02:33 PM.]

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 31 Dec 2003 1:20 am

Of the twenty or thirty some CD's I bought this year my absolute favorite is "Waylon Live - The Expanded Edition".
The story on the album is that back in September of '74 Waylon and the Waylors(Richie Albright :drums, Duke Goff :bass, Larry Whitmore :12-string guitar, Roger Crabtree :harmonica, Billy Ray Reynolds :guitar & harmony, RALPH MOONEY : steel guitar) played and recorded a show at Dallas's Western Place and two show at Austin's Texas Opry House.
Waylon wanted to put out a 20 songs double LP of the live shows, but when RCA put the album out in '76 is was just an 11 song single LP. In '99 RCA released a CD version of the album and added the other nine songs that Waylon originally wanted on the album.
Then after Waylon died last year RCA "found" 22 more tracks from those three live shows. So now they have put out a double CD with 42 songs of Ralph Mooney's playing with Waylon singing. Mooney is all over these tracks, he is the main soloist in the band and Waylon lets him pick on every song. They even do a couple of Wynn Stewart songs with Mooney doing his original solos.
If your at all interested in Ralph Mooney's steel playing you need to go get this album its over 2 hours of Mooney playing live on his Sho-Bud.