Music Picks 2008
In what’s becoming an annual tradition, I have asked derek becker and Jim Boyd for music recommendations so that I could get some fresh music in my collection. Here are the items they’ve recommended (with notes as I acquire some of them):
derek:
- Battles
- Lake, Oh, the Places We’ll Go [acquired]
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Raising Sand [acquired]
- Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago [acquired]
- Tom Waits, Real Gone [acquired]
- Dungen, Ta Det Lungnt
- Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds, & Nigerian Blues, 1970-1976 [acquired]
- Justice, Cross [acquired]
derek’s “Top Five World Music Pix”:
- 3 Na Massa, 3 Na Massa [acquired]
- Kassin +2, Futurismo
- Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, Kedu America
- Zaiko Langa Langa, Zaire-Ghana
- NuYorican Funk Experience, Vol. 3 [acquired]
derek’s current “Top Four of All Time”:
- Jesus Christ Superstar (London cast)
- Mark Heard, Satellite Sky [acquired]
- The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses [acquired]
- Silver Jews, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea [acquired]
Jim:
- Professor Longhair, Rock ‘n’ Roll Gumbo [acquired]
- My Morning Jacket, Okonokos (preferably the DVD) [available on eMusic]
- Sun Kil Moon, April
- Brenton Wood, “Oogum Boogum” (single)
- Calexico and Iron & Wine, In the Reins [acquired]
- The Detroit Cobras, Baby [acquired]
- Mudcrutch, Mudcrutch
- Culture, Harder than the Rest [available on eMusic]
Thanks, guys! This is a great tradition.