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It's Bluesy
Blues is a jumping off point for many bands while others are purists. It can be electric or acoustic. There's swamp funk and gut-bucket Blues, and there are dozens of acts making music and touring today. Chances are one is playing near you soon. Find your local Blues club and give one a listen.
It's Bluesy
Blues is a jumping off point for many bands while others are purists. It can be electric or acoustic. There's swamp funk and gut-bucket Blues, and there are dozens of acts making music and touring today. Chances are one is playing near you soon. Find your local Blues club and give one a listen.
It's Bluesy
Blues is a jumping off point for many bands while others are purists. It can be electric or acoustic. There's swamp funk and gut-bucket Blues, and there are dozens of acts making music and touring today. Chances are one is playing near you soon. Find your local Blues club and give one a listen.
It's Rocky
It's only Rock ’ Roll, but we love it. But Rock didn't die with John Bonham or even Kurt Cobain. There's still a lot of great stuff being made out there. You don't have to know the words by heart to Rock out.
It's Rocky
It's only Rock ’ Roll, but we love it. But Rock didn't die with John Bonham or even Kurt Cobain. There's still a lot of great stuff being made out there. You don't have to know the words by heart to Rock out.
It's Rocky
It's only Rock ’ Roll, but we love it. But Rock didn't die with John Bonham or even Kurt Cobain. There's still a lot of great stuff being made out there. You don't have to know the words by heart to Rock out.
It's Bluesy
Blues is a jumping off point for many bands while others are purists. It can be electric or acoustic. There's swamp funk and gut-bucket Blues, and there are dozens of acts making music and touring today. Chances are one is playing near you soon. Find your local Blues club and give one a listen.
It's Bluesy
Blues is a jumping off point for many bands while others are purists. It can be electric or acoustic. There's swamp funk and gut-bucket Blues, and there are dozens of acts making music and touring today. Chances are one is playing near you soon. Find your local Blues club and give one a listen.
It's Jammy
New Music for Old Folks
If I'm going to live here, I'm going to need some music.
Being cooped up has me headed to the desert island
By Vince Dunbar, Newmusicforoldfolks.com
So, as we all wait out the viral-pocolypse, a lot of us have some extra time on our hands. Some have spent the extra time reflecting on the music that has influenced our lives. A friend spent 10 days making a Facebook post per day on the albums that were most important to him. Tony is a great guy. We are approximately the same age, have pretty much the same views on life, sports and politics. We’ve never discussed it, but I imagine we agree on religion as well. We’ve had a couple of discussions about music, and I think we agree on what’s good — even great. But my list is very different from his.
One by one Tony revealed a list of albums were all wonderful. If you asked 1,000 people of our generation for their lists, all of these albums would appear on the at least half the lists. The White Album, Born to Run, Dark Side of the Moon, Waiting for Columbus … there’s not a stinker in the group. Tony knows his Classic Rock. At the end, Tony added 10 more albums that he’d considered. And then a dozen more after that. All told, there are 32 albums on Tony’s list. The most recent album on the list is So by Peter Gabriel (1986).
So, I decided to put together a list of my own. I can’t release them one day at a time. I don’t have the patience for that. These are not the best albums of all time, but if I’m headed to the desert island.
I can only take a few albums to listen to for the rest of my life. Which ones do I take? Never mind the electricity concerns, there are important considerations to be made here.
Part of the purpose of this site is to make people
consider that good music did not stop in the ‘80s. There’s still a lot being made. Every one of the albums on Tony’s list is great. I’m sure Tony’s list would be much more popular with music critics than mine. Are there albums on my list that aren’t as good as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? Yes, of course, but that’s not the point. At least not the point that I’m trying to make. Tony may have been after something different, but this is my list. These are albums that have helped forge the music lover I am today. Ask me again in a couple of months and you might get a completely different list. Especially if I’ve spent that time still cooped up inside.
I could probably get to 50 without too much trouble. I trimmed it down to 25, and I think these are the ones I’m taking to the island. My daughter just told me that 25 was too many for the island list. She says five. I’ll pack less clothing. I can survive with just flip-flops. Thurston and Lovie had different clothes in every episode, so it’s not an exact science. My website, my rules. I’ve put them in order of their release, with sentence or two of comment. (More)
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt are two reasons this site is necessary.
So, what's this site all about? Just what the name implies
Here's the newmusicforoldfolks.com manifesto
By Vince Dunbar, Newmusicforoldfolks.com
So, why is this website necessary? Why do we need a clearinghouse for information about new music? Isn’t that what the radio is for? That’s where we used to get the word on when The Stones or Journey or R.E.M. (depending on your age) was coming to town or if the second Boston album was ever going to be completed. But now there’s no new music on the radio — at least not for us. Not this kind of music — music made to be enjoyed by people who are no longer teenagers, or even twentysomethings.
I was born at the tail end of the Baby Boom. That makes me 55 years old. If you’re a dozen or so years on either side of that, this website might be for you. Like most Baby Boomers, I have a passion (that borders on obsession) for music. But unlike many, that passion is not about nostalgia.
Don’t get me wrong; I appreciate Classic Rock as much as most people my age. My record collection includes The Beatles and the Stones. I think Who’s Next is the greatest album ever made. But I don’t think rock ’n roll died with John Bonham, or even Kurt Cobain. (more)
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