Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#7xx in the Series) is Suzanne Vega                   888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Track listing All songs written by Suzanne Vega. “Cracking” – 2:49 “Freeze Tag” – 2:36 “Marlene on the Wall” – 3:40 “Small Blue Thing” – 3:54 “Straight Lines” – 3:49 “Undertow” – 3:26 “Some Journey” – 3:38 “The Queen and the Soldier” – 4:48 “Knight Moves” – 3:36 “Neighborhood Girls” – 3:21 Personnel Suzanne Vega — vocals, acoustic guitar Steve Addabbo — background vocals, synclavier guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar Darol Anger — electric violin Frank Christian — acoustic guitar, electric slide guitar Paul Dugan — bass , vertical bass Sue Evans — drums,...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#6xx in the Series) is R.E.O. Speedwagon, Live, You Get What You Play For                 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Track listing “Like You Do” (Gary Richrath) – 6:54 “Lay Me Down” (Richrath, Gregg Philbin) – 3:39 “Any Kind of Love” (Richrath) – 3:34 “Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)” (Kevin Cronin) – 6:35 “Keep Pushin’” (Cronin) – 4:06 “(Only A) Summer Love” (Richrath) – 6:05 “Son of a Poor Man” (Richrath) – 5:30 “(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come” (Cronin) – 4:49 “Flying Turkey Trot” (Richrath) – 2:35 “Gary’s Guitar Solo”(*) (Richrath) – 6:10 “157 Riverside Avenue” (Richrath, Philbin, Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer, Terry Luttrell) – 7:38 “Ridin’...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#6xx in the Series) is Bill Lloyd,  Boy King Of Tokyo (Whole-In-One)                   8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Track Listing Boy King Of Tokyo Buy On Credit Let It Slide We Got The Moon Com Trol Home Jeeves Doc’s Box The Best Record Ever Made Up In The Air The Fix Is In Indubitably Chet’s Right Hand, Man Where Nobody Cares At All Mistakes Were Made Personnel Bill Loyd: All vocals, All instruments. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#6xx in the Series) is Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Trilogy                 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Track listing Side one “The Endless Enigma (Part One)” (Keith Emerson, Greg Lake) – 6:37 “Fugue” (Emerson) – 1:57 “The Endless Enigma (Part Two)” (Emerson, Lake) – 2:00 “From the Beginning” (Lake) – 4:14 “The Sheriff” (Emerson, Lake) – 3:22 “Hoedown” Taken from Rodeo (Aaron Copland) – 3:48 Side two “Trilogy” (Emerson, Lake) – 8:54 “Living Sin” (Emerson, Lake, Carl Palmer) – 3:11 “Abaddon’s Bolero” (Emerson) – 8:13 Personnel Greg Lake: Vocals, Electric guitars & acoustic guitars, bass guitar Keith Emerson: Hammond organ C3, Steinway piano, Moog synthesizer III-C, Mini-Moog Carl Palmer: Drums,...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#6xx in the Series) is NRBQ with Special Guest John Sebastian, Live From the Wax Museum               888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Track Listing Java (Friday, Schack, Toussaint) 1:58 Well Oh Well (Bernard, Bradshaw, Sydney) 2:41 Made to Love (Everly) 2:39 Tragic Magic (Adams) 1:38 My Girl Robinson (White) 2:55 Wacky Tobacky (Adams, Spring) 3:07 Don’t She Look Good (Spampinato) 2:50 Daddy-”O” (Santos) 2:23 Things We Like to Do (Bagdasarian) 2:29 That’s Neat That’s Nice (Adams) 3:11 The Christmas Song (Tormé-Wells) 3:09 Did You Ever Have to Make UpYour Mind? (Sebastian) 1:59 Lovin’ You (Sebastian) 2:30 Never Take the Place of You (Anderson) 3:35 You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#62x in the Series) is John Prine, Fair and Square                   888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Track listing All tracks composed by John Prine, except where indicated: “Glory of True Love” (Prine, Roger Cook) – 4:12 “Crazy as a Loon” (Prine, Pat McLaughlin) – 5:03 “Long Monday” (Prine, Keith Sykes) – 3:22 “Taking a Walk” (Prine, McLaughlin) – 6:09 “Some Humans Ain’t Human” – 7:03 “My Darlin’ Hometown” (Prine, Roger Cook) – 3:14 “Morning Train” (Prine, McLaughlin) – 4:02 “The Moon Is Down” – 3:47 “Clay Pigeons” (Blaze Foley) – 4:27 “She Is My Everything” – 4:25 “I Hate It When That Happens to Me” (Prine, Donnie Fritts)...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#951 in the Series) is Big Country, Steeltown 30th Anniversary Edition The 80s were, without a doubt, a golden era for Scots pop/rock music.  A storm which began brewing deep in the punk and new wave sounds of the late 70′s suddenly gathered it’s forces and unleashed a Tsunami of talent which didn’t diminish for years. One of those talents was the wonderfully gifted Stuart Adamson, a young man who was a founding member of The Skids, a fantastic band from Fife which had great success between 1977 and 1982, became very influential , and which these days has attained semi-legendary status among fans of the Punk/New Wave era. Adamson actually left the band...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#950 in the Series)  is Cat Stevens, Teaser and The Firecat. I was going to feature Catch Bull at Four because it contains “Boy With the Moon and Star on His Head” but went with Teaser and The Firecat instead. I love that song but I’ve read that it’s one of the few songs that Cat Stevens recorded years ago that he’s actually embarrassed about. Sometimes when I do some research for these pieces you learn little nuggets that you didn’t know about and they catch you totally by surprise.  For instance, I learned when looking up Teaser and the Firecat that Rick Wakeman of Yes fame played keys on the top 40 hit “Morning Has...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#949 in the Series) is Roxy Swain, Restless Hearts Restless Hearts, the second record from local Chicago favorites Roxy Swain, is about as perfectly crafted a set of songs as your ears will enjoy all year. With influences that seem to float from Fleetwood Mac to Emmy Lou Harris, with a hint of daisy-duke era Linda Ronstadt thrown in for good measure, Ms. Swain, the front-woman for the group, with her back of the barroom pipes, slight Americana warble, and abundance of Indie Rock-Chick swagger could be the love child of Chrissie Hynde and Lucinda Williams. There is definitely some palate cleansing retro fairy dust that is sprinkled throughout this highly addictive album...

  GROW MUSIC PROJECT is proud to present episode #06 of “GMP • The Session Diaries”, a new documentary web series about great emerging independent artists and bands that you might not know, but should. Ep.#06 features JUICE LUCAFO, hailing from Phoenix, AZ, (via Chicago, IL) Juice puts you straight away into the heart of the song, especially with a track like “All Tied Up.” There’s no filler with Juice – If she wants to say something, she says it – and with a vocal prowess that is as impressive as it is unique. She’s the complete artist – one that blows you away and remains stuck in your head after just one listen. This episode chronicles the creative...