what is your favorite record of all time?

Jeff Scott Brown · Post by **Jeff Scott Brown** » 8 Apr 2013 12:12 pm

Foxtrot. Supper's Ready is the justification for that. I don't really have a favorite song but if pressed to pick one, that might be it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kORf_0uVTw

Tim Vandeville · Post by **Tim Vandeville** » 8 Apr 2013 12:17 pm

Charley Pride..The Country Way (1967).

Dana Blodgett · Post by **Dana Blodgett** » 8 Apr 2013 12:30 pm

I'd have to say "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"-(Byrds),"Powerglide" and "Adventures of Panama Red"-(NRPS)have to rank up there for me.
It's hard to just pick one!

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 8 Apr 2013 12:32 pm

Rock/Pop: Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

Country: Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings

Singer/Songwriter type: Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan

This is of course one of those impossible to answer with one choice topics. All the stuff I'm leaving out...Rubber Soul, The Band (Brown album), Manassas (first album), Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, Alison Krauss & Union Station Live, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, American Beauty, and on an on and on...

I bought the remastered version of Peter Gabriel's "So" awhile back - forgot what a fine album that one is.

And then there's all the great jazz albums.

Jeff Scott Brown · Post by **Jeff Scott Brown** » 8 Apr 2013 12:36 pm

Mark Eaton wrote: I bought the remastered version of Peter Gabriel's "So" awhile back - forgot what a fine album that one is.

I flew out to see him perform at Red Rocks last year when he played that whole album. The performance was fantastic. It really made me appreciate that album again.

Matt Dawson · Post by **Matt Dawson** » 8 Apr 2013 12:50 pm

Jim Hall and Chet Baker -Concierto d'Aranjuez

Darrell Criswell · Post by **Darrell Criswell** » 8 Apr 2013 12:54 pm

If anyone can come up with a better album than Donny Young (johnny paychecks)
The Real Mr. Heartache; The Little Darlin years" please let me know.

John Peay · Post by **John Peay** » 8 Apr 2013 2:24 pm

Tim Vandeville wrote:Charley Pride..The Country Way (1967).

Man, great choice there Tim, I'd have to put that one a very close 2nd on my list. Along with just about anything by George Jones....

If compilations count, though, I gotta go with "Mel Street's Greatest Hits"

Great thread, I'm getting some ideas on stuff I need to listen (and re-listen) to...

Dan Hatfield · Post by **Dan Hatfield** » 8 Apr 2013 4:09 pm

If we are talking steel albums I would have to go with Buddy Emmons and his live double album recorded in St. Louis in '77. Maybe I am biased because I was in the audience at the time; all I can say is that it was a spiritual experience I will never forget.

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 9 Apr 2013 8:12 am

A big ditto to Dan's post- I was there as well... probably right next to Dan yelling my head off. One of the most amazing musical experiences ever out of a great many. E at the height of power in front of an adoring audience.

Close second, "Suite Steel" for me, hearing Buddy's version of Wichita Lineman had me buying a steel and joining a band the same day.

Abbey Road for sheer beauty and emotional impact. And too many more to list.

I have to say I'm very sorry for the kids of today for whom music is often more of a background soundtrack to other things than the spiritual, mystical, transformative, tribal experience it was for many of my generation.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 10 Apr 2013 7:47 am

William Lake wrote:...Cripes another guitar player who thinks he can sing.

I dodn't know Leonard Cohen played guitar?

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 10 Apr 2013 8:26 am

IMHO, it doesn't get much better than this!

Laurence Pangaro · Post by **Laurence Pangaro** » 10 Apr 2013 9:19 am

I'm not sure that there's really an answer to this question, but I'm gonna go with Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow"

ciao,
LP

Orville Johnson · Post by **Orville Johnson** » 10 Apr 2013 1:22 pm

Narrowing it to one is pretty tough, but The Band (the brown album) is an absolute Desert Island Disc for me. I can still listen to it 40 years later and hear new nuances that I haven't heard before. It's one of those records you can listen to all the way through and then wish it would keep going.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 10 Apr 2013 2:04 pm

+ 1 for that Orville

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 10 Apr 2013 2:15 pm

Orville Johnson wrote:Narrowing it to one is pretty tough, but The Band (the brown album) is an absolute Desert Island Disc for me. I can still listen to it 40 years later and hear new nuances that I haven't heard before. It's one of those records you can listen to all the way through and then wish it would keep going.

That album, and all the best stuff by The Band, seems to have affected me in the way Dylan's greatest songs have - they've taken on different meanings over time, and changed in their significance to me. And songs I might have merely liked when I was younger I now love.

One example from The Band: Whispering Pines

What a brilliant song!

Jerome Hawkes · Post by **Jerome Hawkes** » 10 Apr 2013 3:44 pm

For country/steel, beyond a doubt Charlie Pride Live at Panther Hall. Lloyd was on fire that night - and that was back when a live LP was live.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 10 Apr 2013 7:32 pm

I can't go for more than a few days without hearing at least some of Bach's Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin. It's ALL there. I'd have to take Henryk Szeryng's version above all others - none of the wheedly vibrato'd-to-death "romantic style" as beat to smithereens by Itzak Perlman and such, Szeryng plays it like a foghorn or something. To this day I've only heard that tone out of Duane Allman and a few disciples like Warren Haynes, harmonica genius Pat Ramsey, and a handful of great sax players.

Jeff Scott Brown · Post by **Jeff Scott Brown** » 11 Apr 2013 6:52 am

Laurence Pangaro wrote:I'm not sure that there's really an answer to this question, but I'm gonna go with Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow"

A fantastic piece of work.

As a 15 year old I spent many many hours in my bedroom playing my guitar along with that record. Loved it then and still do.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 14 Apr 2013 7:24 am

"Slidin' Smoke" Mike Auldridge & Jeff Newman

admin · Post by **b0b** » 14 Apr 2013 8:20 am

I know I already posted mine, but on reflection I feel that I have to add the most played album in my collection: Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" (the first recording of it, on Nonesuch). It's what I use to clear the songs out of my head on the way home from gigs, to work without distraction, sometimes even to fall asleep.

I've been playing it at least once a week for the past decade, more than I've played any other album. It's like the pulse of my life. I don't think of it as music, which is why I didn't mention it earlier. It's what I use to escape music.

Of course, it is music, but it doesn't lend itself to musical analysis. I can enjoy it without thinking about chord progressions, scales, harmony, beats, or any other aspect of music theory. It doesn't speak to the musician part of my brain - it affects me on a different level. Sometimes I need that.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 14 Apr 2013 8:28 am

If I was to include Jazz and Classical recordings, it would be impossible to come up with a #1, as they would trump every other Pop and Rock record I've ever heard.

Gieseking playing Debussy, Shostakovich's string quartets, Casadeseus playing Ravel, Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil, A Love Supreme--to me, music for a lifetime of listening.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 14 Apr 2013 5:55 pm

There are so many great country records, but one of my favorites now is "A Shot Of Whiskey & A Prayer" by Danni Leigh-I've been a fan of Danni's since "If The Jukebox Took Teardrops" came out-some great steel on Danni's records by Steve Hinson. As far as pop records go, my friend Katie Cook had a record out in 2001 with a band she was in called Reno before she got on CMT.

Paul Foster · Post by **Paul Foster** » 22 Apr 2013 11:48 am

How about Vern Gosdin,s Greatest Hits!!! Awesome

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