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Allison Moorer - Blood. Allison is the sister of Shelby Lynne and these sparse yet powerful songs address the tragedy and fallout of their father shooting their mother and then turning the gun on himself, while both girls hid in the house.
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Decided to follow up Allison Moorer’s album with an album she made with sister, Shelby Lynne, titled Not Dark Yet. An album of covers by an interesting range of songwriters, including Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Amanda Shires & Jason Isbell, The Louvin brothers, Nick Cave and Kurt Cobain.
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That sounds cheerful 
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Playing in MQA 24/44.1 so unpacks/presents as WAV 24/88.1 through the Roon server to my NDS.
Hauntingly good vocals from Tracey Thorn
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On Verve 180g Classic Records reissue series, recorded 1964, but not originally released until ‘73 and now with this reissue very quiet vinyl
Recommend this series
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Thank you @Alley_Cat , I have seen the Floor Jansen ones but not this. Impressed! Makes phantom of the opera good but not as impressive. 
Once again this 70 year old studio recording gets an airing.
The 24 year old pianist’s first record, with Charles Mingus and Art Blakey, who plays with brushes on this track.
This is about the closest you can get to hearing Bley hammer out jazz classics in a pretty straightforward and really enjoyable way - but his playing already had that unique sense of timing that was his hallmark - played fast and spritely in this case, but somehow with time to spare.
Although I was born 10 years after this record was made, I unfortunately didn’t discover Bley’s music until about 7 years ago, about a year after he died, thus I missed hundreds of opportunities to hear him play live.
Anyway, it sounds almost live this morning. 
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Climax Blues Band. 1976. Vinyl.
They were a great live band and Pete Haycock was a serious guitar player imho.
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EC. 1974. Vinyl.
I have had this years and I know I didn’t buy it. Proof that it is dangerous to lend records to friends. Can’t remember whose it was.
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Went out of my way to see them on a number of occasions, really excellent band live.
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Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town - CD (1978)
Happy 
Birthday - Bruce Springsteen - 75 today 23/09/49
US singer, songwriter, Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Boss’, who had the 1985 US No.2 & UK No.4 single ‘Dancing In The Dark’, 1994 UK No.2 single ‘Streets of Philadelphia’. He has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide.
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