I made a mix disc of jump blues for driving purposes: Louis Jordan, Joe Turner, and the immortal Wynonie Harris.

Driving music is different than sit in the chair music, I find.

A really good driving music band is Stereolab. Not the faux-jazzy stuff that sounds like the soundtrack to a Jean Rollin flick about lesbian vampires in the land of the mysterious green goo, but the droning Velvet-y stuff.

And speaking of droning Velvet-y, the Feelies have a new one out. That's two in what, six years? A frantically productive period for this group.

Micky & the Motorcars are a good rock/country band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSgE_JjN-U

Patrick wrote:

A really good driving music band is Stereolab. Not the faux-jazzy stuff that sounds like the soundtrack to a Jean Rollin flick about lesbian vampires in the land of the mysterious green goo, but the droning Velvet-y stuff.

I love just about everything Stereolab and was fortunate to have interviewed Laetitia Sadier for a newspaper story I wrote, geez, must be about 17 years ago.

gamma68 wrote:

^ I own an original pressing of "Jazz Goes to College" and it's a favorite. Desmond's playing on "Balcony Rock" is exquisite.

If you like that double LP, I recommend "Jazz at Oberlin" by the Brubeck Quartet. I believe it's one of the first in Brubeck's "college" series, and it's become a classic.

Thanks for the recommendation! That's going on my short list

Been enjoying a lot of Sinatra lately.

My taste in music is eclectic.

Topsider wrote:

My taste in music is eclectic.

Eclectic indeed. A very cool mix of sounds.

A little bit of fractured americana:
https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -langhorne

Here's where I landed on 2017, mostly new stuff with a few reissues of previously hard to find stuff thrown in:

A Team

Big Thief – Capacity
Hiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah Anyhow
The Weather Station – S/T
Lal and Mike Waterson – Bright Phoebus
War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
John Moreland – Big Bad Luv
Tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer
Chuck Johnson – Balsams
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
Joan Shelley – S/T
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
James Elkington – Wintres Woma
The National – Sleep Well Beast
Destroyer – Ken
Margo Price – All American Made
Marijata – This is Marijata
Girl Ray – Earl Grey
John Wonderling – Day Breaks
Laura Marling – Semper Femina
Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm
Vagabon – Infinite Worlds
Neil Young – Hitchhiker
Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator
Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
King Krule – the Ooz
Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Kacy and Clayton – The Siren’s Song

B Team

Alice Coltrane – The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane
Protomatyr – Relatives in Descent
Kevin Morby – City Music
MIKE – May God Bless Your Hustle
Jackie Shane – Any Other Way
Wooden Wand – Clipper Ship
Jaime Branch – Fly or Die
Rotsam – Half Light
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
Alison Crutchfield – Tourist in this Town
Gunn/ Truscinski Duo – Bay Head
Perfume Genius – No Shape
Fleet Foxes – Crack Up
The Clientele – Music for the Age of Miracles
Sweet as Broken Dates – Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
Phillip Lewin – Am I Really Here All Alone?
(Sandy) Alex G – Rocket
Elkhorn – The Black River
Mind over Mirrors – Undying Color
Syd - Fin
Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry
Kaitlin Aurelia Smith – The Kid
Omni – Multitask
Benjamin Booker – Witness
Moses Sumney - Aromaticsm
Gun Outfit – Out of Range
Jake Xeres Fussell – What in the Natural World
Circuit des Yeux – Reaching for Indigo

The Dirtbombs, Art Blakey, Plumtree

Way back around 1983 I was in college in Ohio. I bought this record at a tag sale, solely on the strength of the cover.

I lost it of course.

But now thanks to the magic of the internet, the full majesty of Emil Hahn is mine once again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Sc94dcVIc

2018 --

Discovered the Greenhornes.

Good stuff from Parquet Courts.

Bought the reissue of the Grateful Dead's "Anthem of the Sun," a terrific record in either iteration and an outlier in their studio work.

Found a Captain Beefheart anthology that is about all I need from that artist.

Used Pandora to find new stuff -- new to me, anyway. Then created Amazon playlists and had Alexa play them for me. I have the larger Echo device and the sound is surprisingly good. Sometimes it gets a little overloaded but solid for the most part.

Spent a fair bit of time listening to jump blues.