Music I’m Listening To


From Melody Gardot’s 2009 CD My One and Only Thrill:

Folk singer Patrick Sky’s first album, self-titled, was released in 1965:

I know very little about this pop rock group that was around for a short while in the early 1970s. They produced only one self-titled LP, which includes this song, written by Jesse Colin Young:

Members of the group are Michael Ballew (guitar, vocals), Danny Wilder (bass, piano, vocals), Lucky Floyd (drums, vocals), Mack Tubb (guitar, vocals).

This is singer-songwriter Paul Siebel singing perhaps his most famous song, also covered by many other artists, including Linda Ronstadt, Leo Kottke and Bonnie Raitt:

Lighthouse was a pop rock big band from Canada with often up to 13 members. “One Fine Morning” was the title track of their first album, released in 1971.

From the 1986 CD A Tribute to Steve Goodman:

Wikipedia says: “Bonnie Koloc (born February 6, 1946) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, actress, and artist who was considered one of the three main Illinois-based folk singers in the 1970s, along with Steve Goodman and John Prine forming the ‘trinity of the Chicago folk scene.'”

David Rea passed away on October 27th, 2011, a day after his 65th birthday. David played lead guitar with Gordon Lightfoot, Ian & Sylvia and Joni Mitchell, among many others before becoming a singer-songwriter and storyteller in his own right.

From this San Francisco based jazz singer’s live CD Music Moves from 2005:

The first track in this Texas-born Louisiana-raised blues singer’s 1994 CD Blue House. If you can sit all the way through this video without moving, you’re a better person than I am.

There are piano trios and there are Piano Trios. This is one of the latter. Personnel: Junko Onishi, piano; Rodney Whitaker, bass; Billy Higgins, drums. From their 1993 album Cruisin’:

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