Cool Month

Yo Yo Ma- Plays Ennio Morricone – 5

Brilliant!!!

The only downside of this cd is that you couldn’t actually see Yo Yo Ma play.

Thea Gilmore- John Wesley Harding - 2.5

A very relaxing album. A little too Indigo Girls for me, but it grew on me. If there was one song I didn’t guess that I’d hear on the cd it was All Along the Watchtower, but she did a good version. Judas Priest is an interesting song too, but ultimately most of her songs just ran into one another and they grew boring.

Warren Haynes- Man in Motion - 2

It’s good to know that there’s always a job for a Hammond Organist as long as Warren Hayes is alive. The songs flowed right along, but they just get lost with a bunch of lame lyrics that are destined to be reused on a future Kid Rock CD. He basically rewrote Bad Company’s Shooting Star with Hattiesburg Hustle. He definitely won the award for the most sax and organ on one cd. It’s too bad because the piano and sax alone were great, but the cd sounded like it was recorded in a tin can and everything goes to shit when on top of that you then overwhelm every song with an organ. Oh well, he’s still Warren Haynes and I’m still Greg Lawless.

Mavericks- Trampoline

I had to look these guys up. I was pretty sure that they copied Elvis, Roy Orbison, and Chris Isaac and not the other way around, but they do it so well that I continued to listen. Apparently the Mavericks are huge in Canada, but only Gold in the states. The styles changed so many times I had to check to be sure I was listening to the same cd.

Stevie Ray Vaughan- Couldn't Stand the Weather – 4

It’s a damn shame that he had to die. With the exception of Stang’s Swang, which sounded like a big off time mess, every other song was near perfect. Voodoo Chile is the best Hendrix re-do that there is.

Ghits -Stiff Records

Wow, I did get stiff listening to these songs.

15 Best 70’s albums There were way too many great albums in the 70’s to pick 15, so I chose my favorites feeling no pressure to conform. So there!

Led Zeppelin - III

Van Halen - Van Halen

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pink Floyd - The Wall

The Who -Who's Next

Boston – Boston

Springsteen – Born to Run

Journey – Infinity

Kiss – Destroyer

Rush – 2112

Tom Waits – Closing Time

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

Genesis – Selling England By The Pound

Pink Floyd - Animals