Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Carbon Leaf - Meander
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
Dispatch - Bang Bang
Cake - Fashion Nugget
David Bowie - Heroes
Chet - The Lion Is Outside The Window
The Weakerthans - Deconstruction Site
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Salmonella Dub - One Drop East
The Superjesus - Sumo
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
For you guys getting into Alt-Country - These are the albums I bought this year, and they are all fantastic. I’ll put a letter grade beside each one representing my opinion:
A - The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
A - The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
A - The Jayhawks - Smile
B+ - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
B+ - Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
A - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A - Wilco and Billy Bragg - Mermaid Avenue I and II
B - Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
B - Son Volt - Trace
You just can’t get enough of the Jayhawks. I highly recommend all their CDs.
Other CDs I bought this year:
The White Stripes - Elephant
Warren Zevon - The Wind (GREAT CD! Buy it)
Beck - Sea Change (GREAT CD)
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers (GREAT CD)
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales (very good)
Yep, and at some point in the future I’m going to pick up the best of Tears for Fears and Cattle Decapitation’s To Serve Man. Probably in the same order too.
Art Blakey- Ken Burns Jazz
John Scofield- Up All Night
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Live Art
I had to re-buy Live Art because I wrecked both disks a few months ago. It is my favorite live CD ever.
I personally am loving the aforementioned new Fountains of Wayne album, which I picked up after rediscovering their first album in my CD collection. Shortly thereafter I picked up their Utopia Parkway as well. I also just bought Wilco and Billy Bragg’s Mermaid Avenue, Vol.1, but I haven’t listened to all of it yet.
Finally got the Stones “Satanic Majesty” on CD. On the same trip to the used CD store I got Rick Wakeman’s “Return to the Center of the Earth,” narrated by Patrick Stewart. It was far better than I expected.
Today I discovered Tubular Bells 2003, a remake, with John Cleese as Master of Ceremonies.
In the last month or two:
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Derek Trucks Band - Soul Serenade
Bill Evans - From Left to Right
That come to mind from the past month or two:
Tomahawk – Mit Gas
The Long Winters – When I Pretend to Fall
END – A tribute to Joy Division
Year of the Rabbit – s/t
Failure – Magnified (I had a copy of the tape from way back when, just needed it on CD)
Calexico – Even my Sure Things Fall Through
Black Heart Procession – 2
Dan the Automator – A Much Better Tomorrow
Patty Duke’s Greatest Hits
You hadda ask.
Alrighty, here were my purchases for August
King Crimson- Lark’s Tongue in Aspic
Jethro Tull- Benefit
David Arkenstone- Another Star in the Sky
Music of the Crusades
Dimmu Borgir- Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dances of the Renaissance
Cincinnati Wind Symphony- Postcards
Cleveland Orchestra- Ives: Three Places in England/ Ruggles: Sun-treader
Also, I paid the $35 to join the Britney Spears fanclub- I have high hopes that I’m the only person to buy a Carl Ruggles album and join the BS fanclub in the same month. But some other lunatic may have beaten me to it. 
Some of this music is like,…esoteric, or something.
Somewhere I think I still have this one on vinyl.:eek:
I should pick it up on CD… Mark Knopler’s voice is just perfect for late night driving on long, lonely stretches of road when eveybody else in the truck is asleep.
I’ve got kind of a mixed bag, but I haven’t found any bluegrass or country lately that appealed to me or that would be in here too. Maybe I’ll have to look up Neko Case and some of that “y’allternative” stuff.
The Rolling Stones - Music that matters to them (Some of the band’s favourites)
The Four Tops - Early Classics
Coleman Hawkins - Battle of the Saxes (Tracks recorded 1944)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Georgia on my Mind
Ella Fitzgerald - Holiday in Harlem (Tracks recorded in 1936 and 1937)
Two albums by Grey Eye Glances: Painted Pictures and Eventide.
Also a single by Athenaeum, What I Didn’t Know. Hadn’t heard of this group until I listened to a radioio stream of acoustic tunes and this song was playing at the moment the stream started.
Otherwise, my music purchasing’s been pretty light for the last year or so. I’ve spent most of my music money on Seattle Symphony and other live performances.
Hmm… I’ve been too broke to buy many CDs lately. I think my most recent purchases have been The Music and Radiohead - Hail to the Thief.
Jimmy Buffet - Meet Me At Margaritaville
Trace Adkins - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
The Jimmy Buffet makes a really great set to listen to while on a road trip.
Two little new musicals that I loved and that closed like umbrellas:
Amour
A Man of No Importance
And Sondheim’s Assassins, which was in the half-price bin. Wow. I can’t believe I never got around to listening to it.
“In the USA, you can work your way
To the head of the liiiiiine!” BLAMMO!