Question: If you could recommend one album everyone should listen to or own...

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You guys are probably sick of me hyping this record, but here we go 'gin.

James Harman from '82 or '83. A masterpiece of blues and R&B. Hollywood Fats, Kid Ramos.

Kind of a departure from James' regular blues output but killer just the same. Record is out of print and rare. I got James to sign my copy at Premier a couple years back.

 
I'm going to assume due to you initial statement that everyone hear has heard Sgt. Pepper's, so my pick would be:

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It wouldn't be hyperbole for me to say this was a lifechanger, much like Sgt. Pepper's.
It is a fantastic album, and it is in constant rotation on my phone right now, but....

Please elaborate how it is life changing? I mean it clearly touches on many dark themes, and chronicles HIS life changing issues, but how is it life changing to you or I? I can see if someone is giving up alcohol (as I did a few years back) but to me it is but one of a number of important albums by very talented songwriters that I admire. I was actually going to start a thread about it the other day, and see what other fans think about a few of the songs. It is brilliant, just not getting the hyperbole.
 
It is a fantastic album, and it is in constant rotation on my phone right now, but....

Please elaborate how it is life changing? I mean it clearly touches on many dark themes, and chronicles HIS life changing issues, but how is it life changing to you or I? I can see if someone is giving up alcohol (as I did a few years back) but to me it is but one of a number of important albums by very talented songwriters that I admire. I was actually going to start a thread about it the other day, and see what other fans think about a few of the songs. It is brilliant, just not getting the hyperbole.

As Mel Brooks once said: "tragedy is when I cut my finger; comedy is when you trip into an open sewer and die."
 
It is a fantastic album, and it is in constant rotation on my phone right now, but....

Please elaborate how it is life changing? I mean it clearly touches on many dark themes, and chronicles HIS life changing issues, but how is it life changing to you or I? I can see if someone is giving up alcohol (as I did a few years back) but to me it is but one of a number of important albums by very talented songwriters that I admire. I was actually going to start a thread about it the other day, and see what other fans think about a few of the songs. It is brilliant, just not getting the hyperbole.

I think maybe he means musically. The Soft Bulletin did the same thing for me, just like Sgt. Pepper's did for me before it. When I heard it for the first time it hit me like a ton of bricks for reasons I can't really explain. I was like "so this is what music can be like, too" and it was a revelation. Even if I didn't really relate 100% personally to the lyrics, it changed what I thought about what popular rock music could be.

I haven't heard the Isbell stuff but that was how I interpreted what he said.
 
I think maybe he means musically. The Soft Bulletin did the same thing for me, just like Sgt. Pepper's did for me before it. When I heard it for the first time it hit me like a ton of bricks for reasons I can't really explain. I was like "so this is what music can be like, too" and it was a revelation. Even if I didn't really relate 100% personally to the lyrics, it changed what I thought about what popular rock music could be.

I haven't heard the Isbell stuff but that was how I interpreted what he said.

I was thinking along the same lines, in that his duo has some similarities to Jason doing this mostly solo acoustic album with his wife Amanda accompanying him on violin. I know Andy has been a fan for quite a while so I don't know how profoundly different this might be.

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