What are you listening to?

[mikepara]

If you have 'music of your choice' on as your reading this, what are you listening to?
Stating random radio or background music is no good.

I've got Grateful Dead / The Grateful Dead CD on.
Waiting in the wings is:
Disraeli Gears / Cream
Then & Now / The Who

 

[Harp]

Listen

A Bach violin concerto and pre-game Notre Dame football talk.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Billie Holiday

 

[Elaina]

My "Swing Kids" soundtrack, also in the changer is: REM's Document, Russian classical favorites, Willie Nelson's greatest hits, They might be giant's "Flood", Don William's GH (vol. 2 I think, it may be one of the other ones), Tom Petty's GH and Johnny Cash's greatest hits.

Elaina

 

[Matthew Dalton]

I picked up two boxed sets recently. One was for Classical music and the other was for music between the years 1934 - 1953. I'm listening to a bit of both.

Good primer I think. I'm quite interested in both, know little of either.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Motown.

Running through the Motown/Hitsville box set in while driving in the car.

-dixon cannon

 

[mysterygal]

Jeremy Camp

 

[pablocham]

Stuff I have been listening to lately:

Charlie Poole
Carter Family
Stanley Brothers
Kossoy Sisters
King Hank Williams the First

I have been watching this video of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys over and over again as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4Wdlfg7kY

And this video of Skip James is equally amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0

 

[Lady Day]

I saw Massive Attack in concert last night (*insert girly squeal*), so all day Ive been blasting a playlist of the tunes they rocked at the concert

LD

 

[nightandthecity]

Stuff I have been listening to lately:

Charlie Poole
Carter Family
Stanley Brothers
Kossoy Sisters
King Hank Williams the First

I have been watching this video of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys over and over again as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4Wdlfg7kY

And this video of Skip James is equally amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0

Pablo you are a man of excellent taste!!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Bud Powell at the Gyllene Cirklen in Stockholm in 1962. Wonderful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-kpOiT6Eo

bk

 

[nightandthecity]

Well, I listen to (and play) what some people consider a wide range of music, but there’s a lot of consistency…..like it’s mostly from before 1960!

Walking to town today I listened to Vol 1 of ‘Swinging Hollwood Hilbilly Cowboys’ (1940s West Coast Country music) on Proper, and walking back I listened to my current fave Naxos CD ‘Django Reinhardt with Vocals 1933-41‘.

Then I had a quick practice with the missis for a couple of up and coming gigs: first some traditional English fiddle music from the 18th century, then some 1930s Western Swing. That’s gotta count as listening, right?

Then I listened to her practice bluegrass mandolin whilst I wasted time on the Lounge when I should have been listing on ebay. Then I listened to the bass line of teenage son’s hip hop CD mixing with her mandolin….

Now I’m trawling YouTube for more Bill Monroe clips thanks to pablocham, but getting sidetracked by the Whipporwhills, definitely a HAT BAND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t38Aa3e4_BI&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YUz6bPFNoU&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfc5wulkow&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlwjRDR5-WA&mode=related&search=

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Bill Monroe is great.

Note: edit to powell post above ...

bk

 

[MKL]

Old Time Radio program called GI Jive. It was a show that played the favorites of those of the armed forces during WWII. GI Jill was the host.

Mark L.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Down to the Bone......funky!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Not music, but I'm listening to The Maltese Falcon, read by Michael Prichard.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Most recently:
Fugazi - The Argument
Candi Staton - I'm Just a Prisoner

Sure, those go together.

I had to study Bill Monroe in High School once.

 

[Pilgrim]

"Guy Noir" on Prairie Home Companion.

 

[Rosie]

At this very moment, I am listening to Midnight Sun by Ella Fitzgerald. My collection is on shuffle.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour with Rudy Vallee, 12/13/1934. Tonight's guests -- Cole Porter, Buck and Bubbles, Beatrice Lillie, Henry Fonda, and William S. Hart.