Holiday is the time for new music...

and as I mentioned, Stan has an almost eccentric taste in music, but it is a collection of some of the most diverse, yet brilliant, artists you might ever listen to. From Country Rock to Electric Rock and everything in between, some of which I've heard before, some not. Some of it I even thought to myself "why haven't I got this in my collection?" It's always to good to get some new input, so here's the list of "new" music I've been listening to. Some titles have comments next to them, either if I was impressed with the album...or not. I encourage you to go out a nd have a listen to some of these titles...they're well worth it. In alphabetical order (Band/Artist Name - Album title): 1. Bad Company - Straight Shooter (a classic) 2. Bruce Cockburn - Nothing but a Burning Light (guitar work sounds familiar, but can't place him) 3. Calvin Russell - Sounds from the Fourth World (fuckin' brilliant Blues rock) 4. Climax Chicago Blues Band - A Whole Lot of Bottle (brilliant) 5. Concert for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame - Various artists (John Mellencamp, Melissa Etheridge, Al Green, James Brown, John Foggerty, Iggy Pop, Soul Asylum, Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Allman Brothers, Slash, Boz Scaggs...) 6. Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now!! 7. Dave Matthews Band - Crash (an old favourite of mine) 8. Free - Free (classic) 9. George Thorgood & The Destroyers - More of... 10. Joe Henry - Shuffletown 11. John Lee Hooker - Don't Look Back 12. John Mayall - A Banquet in Blues 13. Led Zeppelin - Remasters 14. Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits (wanna slit your wrists? listen to this drivel) 15. Lindisfarne - On Tap 16. Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero 17. Little Village (Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Keltner & Nick Lowe) - Untitled 18. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 19. Lyle Lovett - I Love Everybody 20. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd 21. Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia (never even knew this album existed - excellent) 22. MTV Unplugged 2 - Various artists (Sting, The Cranberries, Tori Amos, Seal, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Midnight Oil...) 23. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps (Neil should give up whining, I mean, singing...no, it is whining - no wonder I don't have any in my collection) 24. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Best of 25. Pat Mears - There goes the Rainbow 26. Rock Ballads - Various artists (Jefferson Airplane, Troggs, The Booze Brothers, Donovan, John Mayall, Jimi Hendrix, The Box Tops, Canned Heat...) 27. Rock Legends - Various artists (Queen, Wings, Peter Gabriel, Gary Moore, Status Quo, blondie, Marillion...) 28. Rory Gallagher - Original Masters 29. Ry Cooder & River Rescue - The Best of 30. Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal - Rising Sons 31. Sinead o'Connor - The Best of 32. Steve Earl and The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain (country music) 33. Sue Foley - Back to the Blues (great guitar work, but her singing is crap) 34. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (classic Heads) 35. Ten Years After - Undead 36. Ten Years After - Ssssh 37. The Allman Brothers - Mycology: An Anthology (fuckin' brilliant rock) 38. The Band (With Bob Dylan) - The Basement Tapes 39. The Band (without Bob Dylan) - Islands 40. The Black Crowes - Shake your Moneymaker 41. Thin Lizzy - The Best of (classic) 42. Traffic - Mr Fantasy 43. U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 44. U2 - The Joshua Tree 45. Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber - The Skiffle Sessions (Live in Belfast) 46. Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind 47. Van Morrison - What's Wrong with this Picture 48. Walter Trout Band - Tellin' Stories (fuckin' brilliant rock) 49. Whiskeytown - Faithless Street (country music) Incidentally, I've sent these last two postings while on holiday, via my new Nokia9300i phone. Simply infrared-ed them from the laptop to the phone, gone online via GPRS and downloaded the posting for your enjoyment. Ain't technology wunnerful? Wonder what my phonebill's gonna be like though?