Vacant Horizon

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!

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 thought A Tree With Roots is The Genuine Basement Tapes distilled down to its best bits.

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

I never got the EP download from my preorder

Really good album even on first few listens. O! Grace is my favorite Molina opening track since The Black Crow. Every time I hear that chorus it kills me. Too good.

I love the full band version of Shiloh. I saw them play it as a full-band song in concert before I got my boxset and heard the acoustic version, and for some reason the acoustic version just never felt right to me.

What I really like is how Molina and the boys didn't feel obligated to "rock out" on this record, I wonder how much of that is in response to the Crazy Horse comparisons?

To me this feels like the record Jason has been trying to make since after the self titled Magnolia record.

 

It's funny seeing you guys write about how Jason's music is such a great sound scape to certain areas. Me, I always felt like a lot of his work connected with mountainous forests of British Columbia and western Alberta

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!

Oddly I arrived at a very similar conclusion while I was there.

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:)

 

I listened to this and Ghost Tropic cross country over the weekend. Perfect soundscape to the wide moody skies above Missouri.

 

and the only bridge I haven't burned is the one I'm standing on...

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:)

I am not too fond of buying used cds, but sometimes it may be the only way to get what you want.

 

Amazon has used copies of Pacific Coast Rambler listed for 2 bucks.

 

Amazon also has The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers for 10 bucks (used).

 

Also, here is a link to the Mark Olson cds listed at Amazon.com

thanks!

You can buy the cds, right?

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?

When did this come out? I had no idea the remasters were being released yet.

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.

Me too.

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

You guys are getting me so excited for this record!!!

Agreed about the music coming out this summer, I haven't had records come out by bands I really like in ages but now they're all coming out at once

we can't forget the new levon helm too!!

I have to say that I am very disappointed in the 3 tracks from the new record that are out there.

that's too bad. i haven't heard them.

 

I noticed this on a Stones board this morning.

 

Neil Young & Paul McCartney A Day In The Life

Hyde Park, June 27,2009

 

Pretty great/interesting performance. Would have been nice to have seen it live.

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:)

You guys are getting me so excited for this record!!!

Agreed about the music coming out this summer, I haven't had records come out by bands I really like in ages but now they're all coming out at once

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

Agreed. Well, except for the Phish and Flaming Lips part. I'm warming up to the NYA. I'm definitely more excited about the next installment, but this is a nice collection of Neil that fills in some of the blanks and upgrades the audio quality of much of the "unreleased" material I'd accumulated over the years. I'm puzzled by how much previously-released material is included, but what are you going to do? Murdering Oscar, while sounding very much like an extension of the Truckers catalog, is a very strong album. I'm obsessed with American Central Dust. Thus far, it's the best thing I've heard this year. Josephine is quickly rising to the top of this year's albums. It's a very, very strong Molina offering. Stylistically diverse, with more of the excellent songwriting you've come to expect from Jason. I'll let you judge the production Rider. The new Wilco I'm hot and cold with. There are some amazing songs on it (One Wing and Black Bull Nova immediately come to mind), but I don't find myself aching to listen to it all that often. Well, that's my long-winded way of agreeing with you Rider. A good musical summer indeed.

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 including the bad fog and jttp studio tracks with the stray gators. one thing i was really excited about was the remastered albums. the debut sounds so good. really happy to have that.

now, if gillian welch would just release some new material.

peace

Has been it heavy rotation for me since it leaked a couple of days ago. Horizons.... Crossroads.... Ghosts.... Devils. A very strong addition to the impressive Molina catalog.

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!!

I do not know that I totally agree with this. Yes, albums are probably much, much less important. Recordings are effectively free and therefore of far lower value than they were previously. But to me that just means that the most valuable parts of music have left the recording studio where they lived for 80ish years, and migrated back to stages and porches.

 

In a lot of ways I'm OK with that. Bring on the ephemeral magic of music-in-the-moment! I think it's good to put music back into instruments and out of machines / earbuds / what have you.

 

Of course this is exaggeration, but I support the arc of music-emphasis AWAY from recordings and TOWARDS making the live show be the pinnacle musical experience.

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 masterful or complete crap. a good example is any band discussed on this board. wilco-masterful...fleet foxes-complete crap. of course, that's my opinion and i do like some of the lower common denominator myself, like the Eagles:)

another point that he makes is that music is so immediate and there's so much and everyone listens to everything. this, i can't stand. it's ruined music for me to some extent. i miss the days i would save up to buy one cd i really wanted every few weeks and just wear it out. now, music seems so disposable.

http://www.amazon.com/Levon-Helm/dp/B0000011XL/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi

link to the '82 album.

Is it this one:

 

Levon Helm (Amazon.com link)

that's it A-Man!

is this levon helm & the rco all stars? if so, i can help you out tonight/tomorrow.

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

managed to download this all off the internet for free the other day (neil would be very pleased that his music is being distributed by the most cutting edge means of hearing stuff!) and i think i'm just going to make a good double cd out of the best bits and delete the rest. i've never really been a massive fan of live cd's - i think live music works best live or on dvd where the images add something to it all, so there's a huge ammount here that doesn't interest me.

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 over due.