This is in response to a Facebook post (and it’s one of those Facebook viral things that I am hesitant to answer), but it makes a nice blog entry and it gets auto-posted to my Facebook account, so here goes. (If you’re reading this on Facebook and never have seen my blog, it’s at http://hokum.randylilleston.com):
—50 ALBUMS THAT MATTER TO ME —
These are in no particular order.Enjoy:
Los Lobos, Kiko
Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Magic Sam, West Side Soul
Lone Justice, Lone Justice
R.E.M. Reckoning
Alison Krauss and Union Station: Lonely Runs Both Ways
Any Winehouse, Back to Black
B.B. King, Live At The Regal
Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Steven Foster
Beck – Odelay
Billie Holiday – The Original Decca Masters
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
The Beat Farmers – Van Go
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
John Fogerty – Blue Moon Swamp
Junior Wells – Hoodoo Man Blues
The Band – Music From the big Pink
Little Feat – Waitin’ For Columbus
Michelle Shocked – Arkansas Traveler
Neil Young – Harvest
Nuggets
Paul Simon – Graceland
Social Distortion – Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Sonnyboy Williamson—More Real Folk Blues
Southern Culture On The Skids – Dirt Track Date
Steely Dan – Aja
Taj Mahal – Phantom Blues
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
The Beatles – Revolver
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles – Abbey Road
ZZ Top – Fandango!
Led Zepplin – Led Zepplin IV
The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed
The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
Johnny Cash – Live At Fulsom Prison
Johnny Cash – American Recordings
Wilie Nelson – Red-Headed Stranger
Lyle Lovett – Joshua Judges Ruth
The Who – The Kids Are Alright
New Orleans Party Classics
Nirvana – Nevermind
Cool list. What are your overall thoughts on Lyle Lovett?
I like him and he’s a particularly good live act, but there is a certain same-ness in the ground he covers. I don’t own a ton of his stuff.
I could have easily done a Top 200, no problem. This list took me only about 10 minutes and I probably should have concentrated a little more (did I really put Nebraska on there? Did I really put all those Beatles albums on there? Shouldn’t I have been a little more obscure with my picks? How could I skip Muddy Waters? Am I really that big of a fand of ‘Nevermind?’ Why isn’t the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ ‘Girls Go Wild’ on there?….and so on)