quote:
Originally posted by thebillet
I have livened up many a party with "There's a riot going on"
For your next task, can you liven up a riot by starting a party?
And for my list, I didn't know whether this should be the best remembered LP or the ones most played recently (since most of what used to be my favs are up in the loft on vinyl). So I decided on a mixture of the two.
1.
East Coast Blues 1926-1935 by Various Blues Artists (and including the simply wonderful ragtime guitar solo, Blind Arthur's Breakdown by Blind Arthur Blake.
2.
New Orleans Street Singer by Snooks Eaglin (unfortunately not including the wonderful 12 string blues guitar version of Malaguena).
3.
Gracelands by Paul Simon.
4.
Fresh Cream by Cream.
5.
Red, Hot and Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter by Various Artists (because that is what I am playing most now).
P.S. My first choice also contains the track
Myrtle Avenue Stomp by Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton, an instrumental for guitar, washboard, and cow bells. Anyone else finding a similar instrumental line-up in their top 5 can have a pint on me. (If you don't believe me about the track, it is available on YouTube. Haven't heard anything like it since jug band music faded out - unless you are listening to the Lovin' Spoonful, who didn't manage to make my top 5 but would have done if all the tracks were is as good as Jug Band Music is).