{"id":28090,"date":"2021-04-25T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28090"},"modified":"2021-04-25T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:46:49","slug":"musical-balance-spring-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/musical-balance-spring-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Balance, Spring 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me, Father; it has been five months (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/11\/musical-balance-autumn-2020-update\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">November 11, 2020<\/a>) since my last confession about my musical purchasing balance.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I was holding off because my musical purchases were unbalanced.  Perhaps I held off because I&#8217;m not sure that anyone reads these posts.  Perhaps I was being lazy because I really have been buying a lot from individuals&#8217; Web sites, so it&#8217;s not like I can just roll down my Amazon ordered list (strangely, my Amazon orders have really dropped of a cliff this year).  <\/p>\n<p>However, we shall see as we go here if I bought more than the 18 albums I bought in the summer and autumn of 2020.  Spoiler alert:  The album I mentioned I was thinking about buying?  <em>I bought it.<\/em>  Perhaps you did not need a spoiler alert for that; you probably expected that non-twist.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the end of my November post, I mentioned I was thinking about buying Amber &#8220;Flutienastiness&#8221; Underwood&#8217;s <em>This Is Me<\/em>.  I did; it&#8217;s a digital download <a href=\"https:\/\/flutienastiness.bandcamp.com\/album\/this-is-me\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">on Bandcamp<\/a>, and it explains how I happened to download a sexy picture like this to my personal computer:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thisismecover.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Well.  That&#8217;s certainly a cover to draw one&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>She is more Herbie Mann that Tim Weisberg or Jean-Pierre Rampal.  A bit jazz blended with R&#038;B at times.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>So how is my balance, aligned in bullets?<\/p>\n<p>I have recently bought new:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This Is Me<\/em> by Amber Underwood<\/li>\n<li><em>Obscura<\/em> by Semblant<\/li>\n<li><em>Offerings<\/em> by Larry Baker, Charles Glenn, and Friends<\/li>\n<li><em>Feels So Good<\/em> by Chuck Mangione<\/li>\n<li><em>Honey-Colored<\/em> by Nyah Grace; more R&#038;B than jazz, but still featured on WSIE.<\/li>\n<li><em>Manifest<\/em> by Amaranthe<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Trouble&#8217;s Coming&#8221; by Royal Blood (single) (also, note not <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/a-mistake-only-a-listener-of-the-local-rock-station-could-make\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Bliss<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Worlds Apart<\/em> by Andrea Silverstein.  Actually, I ordered this earlier in the year, but I had to follow up with the artist to get it sent out.  She sent me two copies in recompense.  So if you&#8217;re interested in one, let me know in the comments.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reviens-Moi&#8221; by Sacha Boutros (single)<\/li>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t Forget Me<\/em> by COLE, a local artist I saw profiled in the local news<\/li>\n<li><em>Independence Road<\/em> and <em>Christmas Time Is Here<\/em> by The Triplets <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/10\/a-dispatch-from-brian-j-s-musical-crushes-thirty-years-on\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">as I mentioned previously<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>This Bitter Earth<\/em> and <em>Confessions<\/em> by Veronica Swift (as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/22\/ms-monheit-suggests\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested by Jane Monheit<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Best of Mindi Abair<\/em> by Mindi Abair<\/li>\n<li><em>Come What May<\/em> and <em>The Season<\/em> by Jane Monheit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I am missing something as my order records are now scattered.  I don&#8217;t know where the records of the Monheit purchases are; all I know is I have autographed copies.  The Adair CD is also signed, and I have thank you notes from Jane Monheit, Andrea Superstein, and the Triplets.  Which, I remind you, you don&#8217;t get from buying digital copies or from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>So: I got two metal albums (<em>Obscura<\/em> and <em>Manifest<\/em>).  I bought only a few purely jazz albums: <em>Confessions<\/em> and maybe <em>This Bitter Earth<\/em>, <em>Come What May<\/em>, <em>Feels So Good<\/em> (right after I could not find it <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/07\/good-album-hunting-january-2-2021-an-actual-record-store\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">at the record store<\/a>, I ordered it on CD, and then bought it on record twice since).  I&#8217;ve also purchased some straight forward pop, some R&#038;B, and two Christmas albums (<em>The Season<\/em> and <em>Christmas Time Is Here<\/em>) and one single (&#8220;Reviens-Moi&#8221; which is &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; in French&#8211;it sounds better when you don&#8217;t know the words.  Also, when Sacha Boutros sings it.) to reload for the next Christmas season&#8217;s streaming.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s two metal records, more jazz, and a lot of other stuff.  Does it mean my musical changes are evolving, or that the variety of genres that WSIE plays heavily influences what I buy?  Likely the latter given that selections from most of this list has appeared on that station.<\/p>\n<p>So: It&#8217;s fifteen albums and two singles.  Or, as I like to call it, <em>restraint<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Note, of course, this does not include vinyl records <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=good+album+hunting\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">which gets their own posts<\/a> (and probably deserve a category.<\/p>\n<p>Also, note that &#8220;restraint&#8221; goes out the window next Saturday, which is the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale&#8217;s half-price day.  And the newsletter informs me that this spring, they have a lot of records&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me, Father; it has been five months (November 11, 2020) since my last confession about my musical purchasing balance. Perhaps I was holding off because my musical purchases were unbalanced. Perhaps I held off because I&#8217;m not sure that anyone reads these posts. 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