I think we all have albums from our past that we don't want to ever recognize that we loved as teenagers. The albums you hear on the radio from time to time - when you hear them you think How did I ever think this was good? Stuff that is so patently bad that for a moment you question the whole of your taste in music? I think mine were Bush and Alanis Morrissette. My aversion to these albums caused me to lump everything that I liked at that time together in a whole pile of musical bad - something I wanted to sweep under the proverbial rug and forget about.
Well, a recent gift from Jen helped bring some of this forgotten, or "lost" music out, and back into my listening repertoire. A few weeks back, she surprised me with this album:
Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer
I first heard this album in Barnes & Noble, and passed on it, as it was not cheap. Later on, Jen surprised me with it - and it was a great gift. I love the inventive music on here, but I'll talk more about that later. This album opened a door into my musical past through both of the artists on the album - Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer.
These two musicians reminded me of one of my past musical loves: Bluegrass and Newgrass. This is a vast and wide-ranging genre, but I want to share with you some of my favorites. I first "got into" the genre through Yo Yo Ma's work on Appalachian Waltz and Appalachian Journey. Here's the title track from the first album, which I feel as though I really appreciate now that I am older:
Of course, the second album, Appalachian Journey had some highlights as well, like the track 1B:
I've been listening to these albums a great deal lately, as life has slowed down a bit and I feel that I can savor this music again, as well as get re-acquainted with it. I look forward to listening to some of it on our upcoming roadtrip to Kansas City. Here's a track from the album I mentioned earlier:
What are some albums you really like that sometimes get lumped in with the music you'd rather forget about? I'd love to know!
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