[ale] OT: music sites?

[Raylynn Knight]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:33 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Philips wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > As a 53-year old music fan, I don't buy all of this "things ain't what they 
> > used to be" talk. If you shop around and check some of the more active music 
> > blogs on the Net, you can find lots of good music out there being made right 
> > here in the 21st century
> 
> Oh, I do that.  Maybe I should have been more specific, when I talk 
> about current music, I'm primarily talking about that which you can walk 
> into a cd store and purchase. There's very little 'mainstream' music 
> being produced out there that's worth buying, much less downloading for 
> free.  On the other hand I've got over 400 lps, all of which were 
> purchased at least 20 years ago, most likely 30 years or older.  I'd say 
> 80% of those would have been considered mainstream at the time.  I've 
> got a similar number of cds and would estimate that maybe 60% of those 
> are what one would consider mainstream.  Of those that would be consider 
> mainstream, virtually none were produced in the last 20 years.
> 
> I'm a big fan of smaller bands.  I've got cds and lps by bands I'm sure 
> many folks have never heard of:
> 
> Trout Fishing in America, Louisiana Le' roux, A-train, Silicon Teens,
> The New South Jazz Ensemble, Willis, Carlin and Quinn, Tamarac, Dan 
> Sachs (teaches out at KSU!)
> 
Wow! It's been ages since I've known someone else who has even heard of
Louisiana Le'roux!  I have "Keep the Fire Burnin'" on LP.  I'll have to
admit that I haven't heard of the rest though.