What I've been listening to lately

1. Bob Dylan's album New Morning
STANDOUT SONGS:
Track 8 "Sign on the window" (and Aaron, I disagree now, the bridge fits very well, it could have been executed differently, but it is impressive as it is)
Track 3 "Time passes slowly"

2. Gillian Welch's album Soul Journey
STANDOUT SONGS:
Track 3 "Wayside/Back In Time"
Track 7 "Lowlands"

3. The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds

4. I've been listening to and reading a book about Dylan's Highway 61 Revisted album. It is especially spiteful and rocking.

5. Howlin' Wolf's album Moanin' in the Moonlight
Standout Tracks:
Track 4 "Who's been talkin'"

6. I've been thinking a lot about song composition and chords, especially looking to The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 album. I haven't heard it for more than a month, but I think about it almost every day. The piano playing and chord choices he comes up with make me think.

7. And while I was in Missoula last week I read an interview and thought about melody in reference to Joanna Newsom and her phenomenal, ground breaking, melody-rich album Ys.


Since I'm typing. I've finished 3 new songs recently and am killing myself considering possible, best, and potential arrangements for them.