Great albums from the past that you only recently discovered

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I heard a track off of the DLR Band album on Sirius the other day, and the DJ was talking about the personnel that played on it. A young John 5 on guitar before joining M. Manson's band, and a pre-Korn Ray Luzier on drums. Apparently Dave put this out after being snubbed by Eddie and getting replaced by Cherone on that VH abomination. The DLR Band album blows that one out of the water.

Here ya go, hope you enjoy it. I don't know why this didn't get the recognition of other DLR solo projects. It may be his best. :shrug:

 
While I have never heard this live album, I just now checked it out. It kicks ass.
How could it not? Huey Lewis plays harmonica on it.

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Heres a not so downer tune. Edit. 'The nights we spent together, ridin' on the range. Looking back, it didn't seem so strange' .

 
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Pretty much all of David Bowie's albums from the beginning through Scary Monsters.

In this case "recently discovered" means "within the last 5 years," but compared to my long and storied music-listening career, that isn't long.
 
335clone said:
I knew about it, and had heard a few tracks, but never realized just how good a live recording this was. It captured him at his prime, and he owned that crowd.

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Old Quarter is the live album that gets all the attention but Rear View Mirror is well worth seeking out.
 
An old album that has blown me away in the last couple of years is Mink DeVille's first album Cabretta.

I'd always been mildly aware of Willy DeVille: the hit single 'Spanish Stroll', the solo songs on the Cruising soundtrack, the theme song to Princess Bride with Knopfler, but I'd never actively sought out the albums and really listened to them. When I did I discovered his first four albums are straight up terrific.

I love Mink DeVille. Willy DeVille seems like what Bruce Springsteen would be like if he were from NY rather than NJ. That's a simplistic contrast, but they draw and build upon the same roots.
The difference (to Me) is Willy DeVille has a super romantic (Brill Building) sensibility that is much more over the top than Springsteen. Yeah, Springsteen loves his classic songwriting, but he doesn't pull on that 'Freddy Fender /'West Side Story' thing that Willy DeVille does. Bruce's characters are blue collar new jerseyites. Willy DeVille's characters are much more New York, grifters, and hustlers, and romantics, with a legacy of doowop on street corners Spanish Harlem rather than racing in the streets.

Check out that first Cabretta album. I think it's sensational.

 
Oddly enough, I heard a lot of Willy DeVille when I lived in Madison back in the late 70s and very early 80s. I saw them at Merlin's on State Street about 1980, if memory serves.
 
rickenvox said:
There was probably never a time that I wasn’t aware of this album and didn’t appreciate it on some level, but I just picked it up again from Amoeba records and was blown away how freakin good it is.

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You'd have had to be living under a rock if you didn't know about that one...although ya never know with kids these days. I have it on pretty good authority that you're not a kid though. :wink: Always nice to re-discover an old friend.

I really like Steve's solo version of the title track.

 
rickenvox said:
There was probably never a time that I wasn’t aware of this album and didn’t appreciate it on some level, but I just picked it up again from Amoeba records and was blown away how freakin good it is.

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John Barleycorn is fantastic but it really is its own thing. It doesn't really feel like a proper Traffic album and it certainly doesn't reflect Winwood's solo sensibilities.
 
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