Americana and suchlike

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Diapason
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jaybee wrote: Is it just me or have we been chasing that level of excitement of discovering a record that opens your eyes and ears and makes your fledgling hifi sing ever since...
I'm sad to report that I don't expect to EVER have that sense of excitement again.
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just wait till our girls start wanting to go to Wezz ( that'd be junior Wesley to you and I!)
Brass Bands are all very well in their place -
outdoors and several miles away....
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jaybee wrote:just wait till our girls start wanting to go to Wezz ( that'd be junior Wesley to you and I!)
You're saying we can sit outside in the car and try to relive the early days of listening to Master of Puppets, thus embarrassing the living crap out of them and ensuring they'll never return to Wesley? Yep, I'm on board.
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Diapason wrote:
jaybee wrote:just wait till our girls start wanting to go to Wezz ( that'd be junior Wesley to you and I!)
You're saying we can sit outside in the car and try to relive the early days of listening to Master of Puppets, thus embarrassing the living crap out of them and ensuring they'll never return to Wesley? Yep, I'm on board.

You can compare your remembering of Master of Puppets with the surprising listenable;
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Diapason wrote:
jaybee wrote: Is it just me or have we been chasing that level of excitement of discovering a record that opens your eyes and ears and makes your fledgling hifi sing ever since...
I'm sad to report that I don't expect to EVER have that sense of excitement again.

late last year I heard this gem and got a tingle or two... I could have been having a stroke but....

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I'd always liked his early work (little pink houses) but this is a revelation!

stumbled across it after seeing him on Elvis Costello, written and recorded in two weeks with tbone Burnett....



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Ivor wrote:
Diapason wrote:
jaybee wrote: Is it just me or have we been chasing that level of excitement of discovering a record that opens your eyes and ears and makes your fledgling hifi sing ever since...
I'm sad to report that I don't expect to EVER have that sense of excitement again.

late last year I heard this gem and got a tingle or two... I could have been having a stroke but....

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I'll have to give that a go... fantastic cover too....
Brass Bands are all very well in their place -
outdoors and several miles away....
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Nothing new here,but if you like these videos you'll love the album..
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