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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

Charley Pride..The Country Way (1967).

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!

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.

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.

Jim Hall and Chet Baker -Concierto d'Aranjuez

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

I dodn't know Leonard Cohen played guitar?

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

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"

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LP

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.

+ 1 for that Orville

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!

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.

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.

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.

"Slidin' Smoke" Mike Auldridge & Jeff Newman

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.

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.

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.

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