Vacant Horizon

well, the masters at expecting rain have said that there is a new set the trumps all and is called the basement tape anthology. part of me is concerned i am missing out on some great music here, but damn if seeking out unreleased stuff is tiresome. especially when there's a hundred versions of songs etc.

i think you might be right. although, my first listen to vol. one of gbt there's some good stuff missing. i hesitate to get into this as going down the road with dylan bootlegs might not be something i need to get worked up about, but there's so much mythology behind the basement tapes. i'll check out expecting rain too. thanks friends!

what's the difference. seems like some songs on the GBT are not on ATWR. any insight? thanks, c

pyramid electric co. works well on a rainy, hot, summer night in georgia:) i'm with you on shiloh. i'm glad to see jason revisiting some older songs like shiloh and whiporwill(sp), rather than chucking them.

i want to live in that picture!

for me, it may have to do with family. however, i really feel like a midwesterner. laid back, into all different types of music, etc. will probably end up back there at some point. flat lands and endless highways that either lead to indiana or ohio:)

ahhh, the midwest. i live in the south, but i miss ohio sometimes. seems like all my problems would be solved if i moved back:)

thanks!

what's a cd? actually, i think some of that stuff is out of print and hard to get...zola, political manifest, etc.

it's too bad most of mark's solo stuff is not on emusic or itunes. anyone willing to up some of this stuff?

they're only digital at this point (amazon, itunes). i believe discs will be coming out at some point too. this is all just more of the frustrating ironic puzzle of the archives failure. neil young's excuse for not putting the archives out was his hate of digital sound. so he waits and waits and then puts them out on a dying medium...hardware (blueray no less). and if that wasn't strange enough, he puts out the first four albums out only on that 'shitty mp3' medium. go figure.

for me, this album seems like my idea of magnolia electric co and it's reality have totally come together. i find that i like the 'idea' of several bands/artists, but their music doesn't move my soul. jason almost nailed it for me with nashville moon. this is an amazing follow up. hopefully they'll get some more publicity and some bigger, nicer venues rather than the dives i've seen them at:) craig

we can't forget the new levon helm too!! that's too bad. i haven't heard them.

you know, i'm sitting here watching this wondering why i even try to get into new music. the beatles and neil young! if that's all there was, i would probably be okay. (i like farrar and tweedy too, though:)

yeah, it's like feast or famine. i'm gonna try to pace it so i don't have a dry spell come winter;)

right on cortez! i downloaded the leaks of the new son volt and wilco, but only sampled. i could tell they would be amazing, so i deleted. waiting for the street date. can't wait to see the magnolia documentary as well. the trailer looks cool. molina seems like a real character. i'm also looking forward to the jim james ep. i'm hot and cold with them. it's funny, usually all the good shit comes out in spring or fall. summer seems to be the new time for release of good music. as far as the archives go, i'm just downloading bits and pieces. there are about 10 great moments incl

from the snips i've heard, this sounds incredible. jason has really tamed his voice(which is neither here nor there btw). really looking forward to this. anyone get the record store day ep? it looks good too. man, what a summer...NY archives, new phish, new wilco, new son volt, new patterson hood, new MEC...not to mention, flaming lips coming up too!!

thanks...these are very good points. i certainly enjoy hearing myself on guitar:)

i found them. thanks so much for the help.

well, i love this stuff. thanks for posting. i must say, however, that music is ultimately self-centered. just as this individual's opinions about music criticism are self-centered. he does make a great point that i keep coming back to myself...the idea of the lowest common denominator. it's real and it's huge. not to sound elitist, but most people are average or below average in EVERYTHING and are quite adolescent in their psychology. so, the markets are gonna go for the middle and since that's where most people are, it's gonna get the most noise. the outliers, incidently, are either

http://www.amazon.com/Levon-Helm/dp/B0000011XL/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi link to the '82 album.

that's it A-Man!

no, that's his first album after the band broke up. then he put out another album called Levon Helm in 1978. to make matters worse, he put another album called Levon Helm in 1982, which i would also love to get a clean copy of. thanks anyway. the search continues.

can't find this anywhere. not even an lp rip. help? thoughts? thanks craig

totally agree. i love the version of sugar mountain from canterbury house and was hoping the rest of the disc was as good. not so. same with river boat. i'm totally underwhelmed with the archives. the first disc is fun to hear once and that's it. i think there's about only one cd worth of stuff on there. bad fog and the full band journey through the past are the biggest songs on the set for me. i was more excited to finally get a remastered version of the the first neil young album on itunes. damn, it sounds so good. now i wish springsteen would remaster the rest of his discs. way o