Help Me! Songs you are proud are on your MP3 player

[mutepointe]

I am briefly home between work and a graduation ceremony.
Comments:
1. Bloomfield. You are a god. You could not be forgotten. Your wit is stinging.
2. Listening to Bettye. She is going on my MP3.
3. I heard the 2 Hispanic folks on NPR a while back ( I am avoiding scrolling) They are good.
4. Norah Jones and Tracy Chapman are on my MP3 already. Did you know Tracy's girlfriend at one time was Maya Angelou?
5. I do love cover bands. Any version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight is worth listening to.
I'll check into the folks that I don't know when I have a moment. Keep 'em coming folks.

I have my MP3 player set to random and I have to say the stangest songs show up at just the wrong time. Sometimes I have just got to sing along.

[dwest]

a graduation ceremony.

We just had one of those, to celebrate reduced debt I bought three CDs at one time! All at one time! Yeah! Unfortunately I forgot grad school.

[brianormond]

"Keys To The Kingdom" by Uncle Earl from "Raise A Ruckus" and a number of cuts from their "Waterloo, Tennessee"
album. Old-timey stuff performed well.

[Thomaston]

"Keys To The Kingdom" by Uncle Earl from "Raise A Ruckus" and a number of cuts from their "Waterloo, Tennessee"
album. Old-timey stuff performed well.

Good recommendation. Also worth a mention is The Sparrow Quartet, which includes Abigail Washburn (formerly of Uncle Earl) along with Bela Fleck and Casey Driessen.

[Innocent Bystander]

Anything by Stackridge. Heres Do the Stanley.

A while back at the Folk Club I played 'em "C'est La Vie" on a Low E whistle. They liked it. They jumped up and down when I told them what it was. Somewhere recently I saw Stackridge described as "the forgotten gem in the crown of British Pop Music".

[brewerpaul]

The latest thing I put in my iPod Touch will do: Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin with Leonard Bernstein playing the solo piano. As often as I've listened to it, I still find new gems in this piece.
Someone mentioned Bela Fleck-- check out his classical music album Perpetual Motion.

[MusicalADD]

Seconding the Sparrow Quartet recommendation. (I'm very glad I played hooky from Catskills Irish Arts Week to go catch them at Grey Fox festival....)

Also: Bela Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart, and the Punch Brothers are supposed to be good.

If you're interested in bluegrass/country without any.... how to say it... hillbilly vibe?... check out the band Yarn.

[fearfaoin]

5. I do love cover bands. Any version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight is worth listening to.

I love covers, too.

Carolina Chocoate Drops cover Blu Cantrell's "Hit 'Em Up Style"

Old School Freight Train does an amazing cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass"

Katie Melua covers The Cure

Sissor Sisters do a weird disco cover of Comfortably Numb
(Warning: this grew on my a bit, but as a Floyd
fan, it will probably put your teeth on edge).
This version got popular enough that it was even
covered by college a capella groups

[highland-piper]

My iPod has a lot of bagpipe music, plus Charlie Daniels Long Haired Country Boy and James Taylor's Fire and Rain.

I keep thinking I ought to put some other stuff on it, like Bach and the Cure, but I just haven't gotten to it yet.

[chas]

I think the absolute best album of the last 10 years is Orphans by Tom Waits. Three discs (Brawlers, Bawlers, and Basmatis), each very different from the others. Most of the material is either things he'd performed but never recorded and stuff from movies, etc., that had never appeared on any of his albums.

You might check out Seal's album Soul, which is his versions of (mostly) 1960's soul music. It's not anything I would have gotten for myself, but my wife really likes Seal (aka Mr. Heidi Klum).

There are some good young Fado singers out there, too. I really like Christina Branco.

[burnsbyrne]

Every MP3 player needs some smoking Cuban jazz. I recommend Cubanismo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC1OVsJ8u2g

[mutepointe]

This all gives me some work to do.
Here's one for you folks that I don't have on my MP3 player yet.
The Avett Brothers: I & Love & You
Sorry about the ad but you get to watch them perform.

[cowtime]

If you're interested in bluegrass/country without any.... how to say it... hillbilly vibe?..

[Denny]

[cowtime]

I just realized I didn't give out any tunes from the player..was distracted...

lets see..... there's "the BOB", Beeswing and '52 Vincent Black Lightening by Richard Thompson among many more, there's a TON of John Martyn on there, amazing feller he was- some fantastic shape note music from a cd called Wondrous Love, Bonnie Raitt- you name it, it's good- Dick Gaughan's cd Handful of Earth, can't be beat...oh and check out Keb'Mo' and Olabelle- I second Em's suggestion of Steve Martin's The Crow- it is really really good listening and I have the entire recordings of the Music of Coal on that player too!