Over The Rhine Drunkard's Prayer

This album perfectly showcases the Queens monolithic rock in a "warts and all" style befitting of the band and representing their ferocious liveshow fully and accurately. Even if you've never set eyes on him before, you can tell just by listening to this album that QOTSA's giant frontman Josh Homme is an imposing onstage presence as he rips through classics old and new - pausing just long enough to straighten his immaculate ginger quiff (or in one rather humourous case, to publicly humiliate an audience member for "throwing stuff" at him) before ripping into the next slab of rhythm and riffage.

At 73, with hundreds of albums and countless sessions to his credit, Chet Atkins still had another great recording in him – this splendid duo session with the young Australian guitarist/composer Tommy Emmanuel. Here, Atkins leaves all of the smooth jazz experiments from the previous decade and a half behind him, choosing superior material for their acoustic guitars, with the rhythm section laying down swinging country-pie tracks underneath. Emmanuel's fingerpicking style isn't quite as tied to the rhythm as Atkins'; it's a little sharper in attack, fleeter in technique and a bit flashier in temperament, yet remarkably well-matched to that of the east Tennessee master, almost an alter ego.

UK band Jump have been a going entity for more than a quarter of a century now, although this still will have them described as a part of the new scene in progressive rock by some. Self-described as an eclectic band, this is a venture with more than a dozen studio albums to their name, thousands of gigs too apparently, and at least so far rather safely tucked into the underground rock scene too for some reason. "Over the Top" is their latest studio production, and was self-released in the spring of 2016…

The Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
MP3 VBR 190 | 2006 | 55 MB
Lounge, Easy Listening, Pop, Swing, Jazz | Warner Bros | No Covers

Combining a magical attic’s worth of dusty musical idioms, iridescent golden harmonies and a quirky lyrical worldview, The Ditty Bops provide a refreshing antidote to the misbegotten, soul-grinding notion of thinking you know what happens next…. Abby DeWald (guitar) and Amanda Barrett (mandolin/dulcimer) embody the simple Saturday afternoon pleasures—of thrift store finds and getting lost in the library—with their amalgam of ragtime, jazz, vaudeville, Western swing and folk.