Today’s Random Album of the Day is Sampler Number 4 from Yellow Dog Records. Their music tends to include Americana, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Folk, and Roots music. I tend to like most material from them.
And that holds for this sampler. This is a collection of good music from a good label. It may not be your preferred style but it’s worth a listen.
Of course with a compilation part of the point is to interest listeners to musicians they might like. With that said, most of the artists that I liked on this I already have some of their stuff and didn’t feel compelled to get more at least at this time. Though I was most tempted by some of the blues…
Rating: 9.3
Favorite Track(s): “Later than you think” from Eden Brent is excellent. I like most material from them so not surprising that I liked “Never Going’ Back” from the Asylum Street Spankers. “I’m dreaming of your demise” is pretty cool from Mary Flower. “Turpentine” from Woodbrain is good blues rock. “Mean & Strange” from Big Joe Duskin is good blues. As is “Madison Ave. Shuffle” from Terry Robb if you are ok with instrumentals. Very old timey sound on this one. “Come On” from Christ Cotton is good too. “The Streetwalker’s Stroll” is an excellent instrumental. Very jazzy. The whole album is pretty consistently solid honestly.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
I could not find the Sampler streaming so I’m going to paste in the songs below the fold and reconstruct it for your listening pleasure…
Sampler Songs
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: