Louis Prima Review / The Everly Brothers Preview (Album 20)

(Louis Prima preview here) Jazz jazz jazz jazz jazz...It's so silly. I like jazz, but I don't think that I will ever be able to rap my head around it. Especially if there doesn't seem to be a cohesive sound or melody or tempo. It's all very confusing. Anyways, that's mostly what I feel about Louis Prima. Skills: yes. My understanding of his creative venture: no. A couple of his songs reminded me of The Jungle Book, and when Baloo seems to go all be-bop.

Favorite Songs:
     Melody: Basin Street Blues - When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Album: A Date With The Everly Brothers

Artist: The Everly Brothers

Release Year: 1960

"It would have been reasonable to expect the cupboard to be bare, and the first tracks recorded, "Lucille" and "Baby What Do You Want Me To Do," suggest that material was in short supply. But the radical reinterpretations showed the Everly harmonies could refresh the most familiar songs." - David Hucheon

01 - Made To Love

02 - That's Just Too Much

03 - Stick With Me Baby

04 - Baby What Do You Want Me To Do

05 - Sigh, Cry, Almost Die

06 - Always It's You

07 - Love Hurts

08 - Lucille

09 - So How Come (No One Loves Me)

10 - Donna, Donna

11 - A Change Of Heart

12 - Cathy's Clown

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: A Date With The Everly Brothers

Spotify: The Everly Brothers

This looks like a 60s version of a boy band. Also it's weird, in the book they usually have strange pictures (at least not what seems to be the most common picture) for an album. Weird Britts.

~mfm

Ryan Adams Review / Louis Prima Preview (Album 19)

(Ryan Adams preview here) So yes, this was a heartbreak album. This album caught me off guard with how good it actually was. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, I guess more broody angst country music. But it wasn't that. It was actually mostly rock with acoustic...goodness. I like it, I'm not in the breakup mood though usually. Listening to people's songs who sing about breakups is usually pretty interpersonal. This album stays true with that belief.

Favorite Songs:
     To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
     Amy
     Bartering Lines

Album: The Wildest!

Artist: Louis Prima

Release Year: 1956

"A popular nightclub singer / trumpeter in the 1930s and '40s, initially in his native New Orleans and then in New York, Prima found work had dried up by 1954...[Later] success came immediately, this sparkling half-hour, cut live in the studio in April 1956, iced the cake. Jazz hounds often dismiss Prima as just an Italianate Louis Armstong impersonator...But that is to miss the point: this is simply irrepressible music that more than matches its glorious cover show." - Will Filford-Jones

01 - Medley: Just A Gigolo - I Ain't Got Nobody

02 - (Nothing's Too Good) For My Baby

03 - The Lip

04 - Body and Soul

05 - Oh Marie

06 - Medley: Basin Street Blues - When it's Sleepy Time Down South

07 - Jump, Jive, An' Wail

08 - Buona Sera

09 - Night Train

10 - (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Louis Prima

Spotify: The Wildest!

Jazz jazz jazz jazz jazz...

~mfm