Recommend some new music for me

[ER]

Some new old type stuff...
Doyle Bramhall II- Welcome
Witchcraft- The alchemist
Eric Lindell-Gulf Coast Hiway

I used to hang out with Doyle and Eric, they got famous once they quit hanging out with me.

Some old stuff I can't stop listening to...
Billy Cobham- Spectrum
Grant Green-Shades of Green
Krupa and Rich, a great album with a jazz who's who from 1956.

No good fusion bands anymore, jam bands don't do fusion but Steve Kimock comes close, and has a superb guitar tone.
Heavy but interesting-Mastodon
best new southern rock from Northern Ireland-the answer
best old southern rock from southern Ireland-Taste, like Cream without all the hype.

-ER

[rfgordon]

Try some Rob Tognoni on for size.

[Andy Le Blanc]

I like to pick up sheets with out hearing the tune, make it work your way...
without prejudice.

get out to hear whats around you, thrash, country, classical, garage band, whatever.....

real music can't exist without an audience.

[Greg]

Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush:
1. All Along the Watch Tower...he does this one well
2. Ditch Queen...guitar for days.
3. Strange Dreams...just love that grove

Carmen Appice Guitar Zues...just a bunch of guest players and a fantastic band. I was very impressed with the band. Who is this bass player? Where else can you hear Steven Segal and Floyd Rose play the blues? Do not buy this for Steve and Floyd...there are plenty of other hot guitar slingers here.

Blues Saraceno's Plaid. I love this tone. He is really a great player. This guy was influenced by Ed Van Halen but he is unique enough to satisfy! This is a guitar players album.

Iron Maiden's 1st 5 albums! These guys did not write for radio. Don't be afraid!!!

Rick Derringer...if you haven't heard Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo then shame on you. The initial three notes of that lead are killer...wa wa wa......

Queensryche's Rage for Order...I know this isn't the most popular but holy crap was this unique and bad ass.

Megadeth with Marty Friedman...Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, Cryptic Writings. I love Hanger 18
Megadeth w/out Marty...Peace Sells

Ozzy Osbourne with Jake E. Lee...Waiting For Darkness...last song on Bark but really moving. Hate the Chorus.

Brian Setzer Guitar Slinger. Way Cool

Hall and Oates...Sara Smiles. No guitar but I get all teared up when I play this song.

ZZ Top...Fandango and Tres Hombres

This is just the first run through my head...more later.

I am not sophisticated in my music. I like a great song...a solo that comes from somewhere deep and dark or one that frolics. Steve Vai just doesn't do it for me...to much thought not enough brutality or just plane bringing it! I want to be moved but not to much thought...JUST BRING IT! Van Halen style!!! Oh yeah!!!

[KT66]

I'm a musical stick in the mud myself, and I know you are looking for something new, so I hope that new-yo-you will do.

The last album of new songs that I bought was John Fogerty's Revival, a really fine album from him. Here's a track : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQGistoOKc

Is Joe Satriani's Engines of Creation old now ? Maybe, but it's blend of techno rhythms and Joe's exceptional melodic/compositional sense feels like a drastic departure and an old friend at the same time. here's a cut :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiuI0D41n8

Think you don't like country ? Dwight Yoakam's Dwight Live might change your mind. Pete Anderson's tasty tele licks ,Dwight's Twangy yodlin', and the general tightness of the band might make you change your mind. This page has snippets of all the songs : http://www.amazon.com/Dwight-Live-Yoakam/dp/B000002MY9

I like the song Compared to What by Les Mc cann : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy4JjyFnstA so I recently picked up Swiss movement : http://product.half.ebay.com/Swiss-Move ... prZ3055570
All of the other tracks on it are instrumental in the same kind of style and it's a nice change when I'm bored with my normal stuff to listen to.

I would be derelict in my duties as a Zappa fan if I didn't recommend something by him, so I think you might like Waka Jawaka. From the hypnotic 7/8 head of Big Swifty, to the cool pedal-steel solo in the anti-drug ...One Shot Deal, to the awesome doubling by Sal Marquez on trumpet of the frenetic FZ solo in the title track, you can't go wrong if you like Jazz/Rock fusion with a little weirdness thrown in: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/mus ... Jawaka.htm

[ER]

KT66- Have you heard the "compared to what" on Buddy Emmons "minors allowed"? I like that one, Buddy Emmons and Lenny Breau and gang.

-E

[stelligan]

If you get into great singing, and aren't guitar-centric, check out these two:

Jon Cleary - great piano player with a FUNKY band and cool, raspy blues voice.

Mike Finnigan (Phantom Blues Band) Great B3 player and killer blues singer. His older stuff may be hard to find. The Phantom Blues Band stuff is readily available. He was long time musical director for CS&N. Tours with: Joe Cocker, Etta James, Taj Mahal. Did sessions with Jimi Hendrix.... best blue eyed soul singer you will ever hear.

[Bob S]

Very subjective - I'm stuck in a seemingly permanent rut myself . Give any of the old Rory Gallagher discs a spin.

[CaseyJones]

Ryan Bingham is the antidote. Sounds simple at first, even repetitive. Nothing complicated.

Just goes to show... chops ain't the answer, it's what you have to say that matters.

[Jana]

Structo wrote, "How do you cover hip hop and rap........?"

A shovel works pretty good.

The new stuff by Jeff Beck is good. Occasionally I hear some good stuff from new artists but it is usually something that isn't mainstream or popular.

[lumox0013]

I was listening to roy buchanan:guitar on fire the other day (clean my clock) and also was very much liking steve millers new album bingo! but it's all about taste . and waren hayes/derek trucks got it goin on as well.

[Gibsonman63]

I am all iTunes all the time now. Nothing but crap squeezed between commercials in my area anyway.

Some tasty morsels currently in heavy rotation:

Robert Cray - Strong Persuader (Incredible vocals and strong songs)
Jeff Beck - Emotion and Commotion (It's Jeff Beck, what can I say?)
Billy Holiday - Strange Fruit (Very haunting. Makes me want to play with more feeling)
ZZ Top's First Album (Incredible guitar tone and as tight as a three-piece can get)
Chet Atkins - Solo Flights (Listen to the amazing banjo rolls in "Music to Watch Girls by")
Chet Atkins and Les Paul - Chester and Lester (The guys follow each other to outer space and back on "Caravan". Two masters at work)

[Noel Grassy]

I have varied tastes that cover the whole gamut to the tune of >5K CDs and
a triflin' >1K in vinyl rekkids.

Burning Shed:www.burningshed.com
Please check out this Prog label that's primarily focused on the Canterbery
scene. i.e. Soft Machine, Matching Mole, Caravan, etc.. They've just released the only new recording from Dave Stewart/Barbara Gaskin in 25
years. Not the Eurhythmics one but Dave Stewart of Hatfield and the North, Egg, Steve Hillage, National Health, Bruford. A Genius keyboardist with a sense of humor.

I'm loving the Somma-23 Wheels of Dharma on Eraldo Bernocchi's Rare Noise Records[2010] www.rarenoiserecords.com

The new Melvins kicks major ass. Like release #6 in two years with the new line-up of double drums and double bass. King Buzzo's getting grayer
and much more prolific of late. The team of Dale Crover & Buzzo are the
masters when it comes to locking in some oddly accented Slothcore groove with lyrics that change every time you see the Melvins.

Don't miss that new Jeff Beck. Better still buy it on 180gram vinyl for the
correct frequencies and none of the bit crushing demonics. Live Chick Corea and John MacLaughlin double CD, Mike Keneally's Scambot, and Mike + Metropole Orkest [yep, FZ's Yellow Shark musicians] on the
Universe Will Provide and the excellent limited edition Parallel Universe all on EXOWAX Recordings. Glorious scores from Mike's pen
sounding much more experienced than the recent Vai recording with the same highly qualified orchestra from those fjords over there.

Run don't Walk to buy Chaka Khan's latest with her best voice to date covering Spanish Castle Magic, Sign of the Times and more making them
hers like no other singer can do save for maybe Gladys Knight. But then
the Pips "Moms" could never get as funky as my Chaka can.

Closing with my final funk admission, George Clinton's Gangsters of Love.
[Shenachie Records] George's love songs [as well as Bootsy's] over time always become my favorites of their respective releases. No matter how
funked up the other trax can be there's something really honest and charming when these two arrangers, composers, and perfunkin' formers
put they hearts on display.
George and the "Gangsters" cover wicked old chestnuts like Aint That Peculiar?", "It's All in the Game", "Our Day Will Come", "Sway"[wtf?!!].
But the best is a duet of George's own "Mathematics of Love" with Kim Burrell. Check the original versh on Clinton's TAPOAFOM if you can find it.

Oh yeah, John Zorn's Book of Angels the 10 disc set of many varied groups performing Zorn's Masada compositions. From string quartets, Klezmer Surf bands, solo Mark Ribot, Japanese Noisicians, etc..
The compositions are so much more than a trite reworking of old Yiddish
musical phrases. Although the original Masada Quartet was indeed monstrous and highly skilled these songs are even more profound when
you can hear the bits of Ennio Morricone, Ornette Coleman, Carl Stalling &
many other influences on John Zorn.[on Tzadik records] Zorn might be the 21st century's best
composer.
You make the call,

Noel Grassy.

[CircuitButcher]

Well, since others have been throwing some "tried & true" hats into the ring, may I suggest that if you haven't heard Kal's work before that maybe it's time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPurHfElzyA

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[andrew]

A great one for me: The Fool by Quicksilver Messenger Service