Welcome to The Daily Disc! Whether you prefer your music black and shiny, silver and reflective, or gray with a white, clickable center, the important thing is to find something that keeps you coming back for more. Here at The Daily Disc, I hope to give you a daily dose of musical medicine, propelling your sonic love from fond to frenzied.
For the past 4 years, my aural flame has burned most brightly for Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, the perfect intersection of 20th century music (a 1969 country record by a folk- and rock- singing blues and jazz fanatic). This is really just the beginning, however. While I do trend toward the classic American popular music genres, I never rule anything out or stray from overturning any musical stone.
Other bedrocks of my life-long pursuit include (limited to 5 per genre, in no particular order):
Rock Discs:
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Band - The Band
The Kinks - The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Blues Discs:
Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
‘Mississippi’ John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKEH Recordings
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Skip James - The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James
Country Discs:
Tom T Hall - Ballad of Forty Dollars
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Carter Family - In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe
Folk Discs:
Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
Plainsong - In Search of Amelia Earhart
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
Ralph McTell - You Well-Meaning Brought Me Here
Phil Ochs - I Ain’t Marching Anymore
Jazz Discs:
Stan Getz/João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Rap/Hip-Hop Discs:
Roots - Things Fall Apart
Black Star - Black Star
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full
Nas - Illmatic
Reggae, Rocksteady, Ska Discs:
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Jimmy Cliff - Jimmy Cliff
Desmond Dekkar - Rudy Got Soul: 1963-1968, The Early Beverly’s Sessions
Alton Ellis - Be True To Yourself: Anthology 1965-1973
Toots And The Maytals - In the Dark
Soul/R&B Discs:
Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin’ On
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
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