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Topic: Your favorite albums to play along with. |
Gerald Menke
From:
Stormville NY, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 1:26 pm |
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Hello,
I must admit, one of my favorite practice-playing activities is grabbing a not- necessarily country CD from my CD rack and playing along, just to see if I can get anything happening. There have been some cool surprises. But one record I ALWAYS come back to is the first Palace Brothers album, which came out on Drag City in 1993. I never tire of playing along with Will Oldham and the members of Slint blazing an alternative country path before the genre really even existed. There's virtually no steel on the album (just some single note lap on a few songs), so there's plenty of room.
What albums do you like to play along to? Al Stewart? The Flatlanders? The Beatles? Cocteau Twins? Johnny Cash? Thelonious Monk?
Thanks for reading my post! |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 2:15 pm
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Europe '72 (or most any Dead jams).
New Riders-Adventures of Panama Red.
Bob Marly-Legend.
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 3:52 pm
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'Steely Dan' (any album) - best 'ear training' I know.....
RR |
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Ron Randall
From:
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 6:00 pm
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Anything by AATW. Asleep at the Wheel.
more western swing than country. A few rock tunes in there too. CONTAGIOUS. (be warned) |
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Roland van Beveren
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 2:57 am
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Buddy Miller - Poison Love
John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Gram Parsons - Live With The Fallen Angels
Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time |
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 9:55 am
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About anything by the New Riders Of The Purple Sage with Cage on it (lately I prefer live recordings)
Anything by Buck Owens that has Mooney or Brumley on it.
Tom Brumley´s "Tom Cattin´" (also have just the rhythm tracks for that one)
Anything by Waylon with Mooney.
Great Speckled Bird.
The Bear Family box set: Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours 1961-66 (Charleton)
Ray Price "Night Life" and "The Other Woman".
Lloyd Green´s "Lloyd Green And His Steel Guitar".
and not to forget: Charley Pride "In Person"
and my favorite C6 album of all, that got me started on the back neck: Jimmy Day´s "Golden Steel Guitar Hits".
Joe H.
[This message was edited by Joe Henry on 02 December 2003 at 09:59 AM.] |
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Lawrence Lupkin
From:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 10:07 am
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| Anything by Abba. |
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Keith Murrow
From:
Wichita, KS
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 10:11 am
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| .. [This message was edited by Keith Murrow on 26 October 2004 at 03:29 PM.] |
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Orville Johnson
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 10:22 pm
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| an album i like to play dobro with is dwightyoakamacoustic.net. it's just dwight playing acoustic guitar and singing about 74 minutes worth of his great songs. it's like having him sitting in the room with you. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 12:10 am
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i'm w:Roger R - Steely Dan, most any album
James Taylor, most any album
Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin
Clarence Gatemouth Brown, most any album
The Beatles - most any album
Boris Vian -
any good Ol'Blues album
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Nicholas Dedring
From:
Beacon, New York, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 11:38 am
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I've been recently spending unstructured practice time just throwing on the cable music feed for "Americana"; playing along with that throws some interesting curveballs at you... it's good exercise (I find) to play with stuff I really don't know at all...
It's also interesting to play along to non-country stuff to get used to the other kinds of tones and figures that are needed. I find that if I listen to just straight country to play along to, I can get kind of stuck on certain cliched things.
FWIW, I absolutely love that Palace Brothers record to death... I think I am thinking of the one you mean... "There is No One What Will Take Care of You" is the one I have...
But, the CDs that I use a fair bit are Willie Nelson stuff, some John Prine, some Emmylou Harris, some Robbie Fulks and a bunch of other stuff... |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 5:03 pm
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I love the Willie Nelson/Ray price San Antonio Rose album. Any Johnny Bush, Asleep at the Wheel. Faron Young. Moe Bandy.  |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 5:08 pm
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I'm also starting to use Linda Lay's "Linda's Mercantile Store" album, with Ricky D. on steel. Very refreshing!!  |
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Jack Strayhorn
From:
Winston-Salem, NC
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 7:34 pm
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| Darrell McCall's A Way To Survive and Pictures Can't Talk Back. Both produced by Buddy Emmons. |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 10:59 pm
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Once in a while I used to pull up an ‘Easy-Listening’ FM Radio-Station, and sometimes I would tape a half-hour or so on cassette. then I would have some material to reference and play back as often as I wished. Sometimes I would re-record everyhing as I played along. A good way to pass a Sunday afternoon! I haven't been able to find a suitable station in recent years, around hear!
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“Big John” Bechtel
http://community.webtv.net/KeoniNui/BigJohnBechtels
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