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I don't know about everyone else, but I am extremely excited about the prospects of new music in 2006. I am guaranteed new music from some of my personal favorites: Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... ault_opens (Johnny Cash)

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bru ... ep_new_cds (Dylan / Springsteen)

http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article ... 1001956679 (Jimmy Buffett)

Other albums that I am looking forward to hearing are the new Kris Kristofferson album, the Heartworn Highway soundtrack and I have even heard rumors that we may finally get to hear Johnny Cash's final album American V. What other albums that will be released in 2006 is everyone looking forward to hearing?

Some new stuff I'm looking forward to in the next few months:

Tres Chicas Bloom, Red and the Ordinary Girl (March 7)
Southern Culture on the Skids Doublewide and Live (March 21)
Drive By Truckers A Blessing and A Curse (April 18)
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam (May 2)

jbfinscj wrote:I don't know about everyone else, but I am extremely excited about the prospects of new music in 2006. I am guaranteed new music from some of my personal favorites: Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen:

Something about having an artist's label release a song postmortem.... it’s kind of creepy

ToplessRideFL wrote:

jbfinscj wrote:I don't know about everyone else, but I am extremely excited about the prospects of new music in 2006. I am guaranteed new music from some of my personal favorites: Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen:

Something about having an artist's label release a song postmortem.... it’s kind of creepy

How is it creepy? It's not like they patched bits of songs together to make a new recording. All of these songs are new Cash compilations that he was working on before his death. Even though the artist may be gone, their music will always live on.

jbfinscj wrote: How is it creepy? It's not like they patched bits of songs together to make a new recording. All of these songs are new Cash compilations that he was working on before his death. Even though the artist may be gone, their music will always live on.

listening to music after death I heard when the artist was alive is fine.... but if something new is released after death..... I find it to be a little creepy ... just my opinion....

ToplessRideFL wrote:

jbfinscj wrote: How is it creepy? It's not like they patched bits of songs together to make a new recording. All of these songs are new Cash compilations that he was working on before his death. Even though the artist may be gone, their music will always live on.

listening to music after death I heard when the artist was alive is fine.... but if something new is released after death..... I find it to be a little creepy ... just my opinion....

I find it desheartening that the record label is trying to make such a profit off of the popularity of Johnny Cash now that he's dead. Nashville didn't give a damn about him for the past 10+ years of his life, but now that his biopic is a big hit movie, they can't roll out CDs, boxed sets and DVDs fast enough.

Some of the new CDs I'm looking forward to:
Jimmy's new one
Will Kimbrough's new one
Todd Snider's new one

traderphan wrote:

ToplessRideFL wrote:

jbfinscj wrote: How is it creepy? It's not like they patched bits of songs together to make a new recording. All of these songs are new Cash compilations that he was working on before his death. Even though the artist may be gone, their music will always live on.

listening to music after death I heard when the artist was alive is fine.... but if something new is released after death..... I find it to be a little creepy ... just my opinion....

I find it desheartening that the record label is trying to make such a profit off of the popularity of Johnny Cash now that he's dead. Nashville didn't give a damn about him for the past 10+ years of his life, but now that his biopic is a big hit movie, they can't roll out CDs, boxed sets and DVDs fast enough.

As has been mentioned, American V was being worked on right up until the time of Cash's death. He wanted it to be released. If you're looking for cheap record company rip-off's, look elsewhere because this isn't one of them.

As for Cash's boost in popularity in recent years, it was certainly helped by Walk the Line but it began in earnest with his first album in the American Recordings series and reached fever pitch with the overwhelming success of "Hurt". That's when the Nashville establishment and the media at large began falling all over themselves trying to bestow him with honors he should have received and been acknowledged for eons ago. Not only was it sad but it was pathetic. The words "too little too late" don't even begin to describe the injustice done to Cash by the country music community during the last few decades of his life.

Jahfin wrote:

traderphan wrote:

ToplessRideFL wrote:

jbfinscj wrote: How is it creepy? It's not like they patched bits of songs together to make a new recording. All of these songs are new Cash compilations that he was working on before his death. Even though the artist may be gone, their music will always live on.

listening to music after death I heard when the artist was alive is fine.... but if something new is released after death..... I find it to be a little creepy ... just my opinion....

I find it desheartening that the record label is trying to make such a profit off of the popularity of Johnny Cash now that he's dead. Nashville didn't give a damn about him for the past 10+ years of his life, but now that his biopic is a big hit movie, they can't roll out CDs, boxed sets and DVDs fast enough.

As has been mentioned, American V was being worked on right up until the time of Cash's death. He wanted it to be released. If you're looking for cheap record company rip-off's, look elsewhere because this isn't one of them.

As for Cash's boost in popularity in recent years, it was certainly helped by Walk the Line but it began in earnest with his first album in the American Recordings series and reached fever pitch with the overwhelming success of "Hurt". That's when the Nashville establishment and the media at large began falling all over themselves trying to bestow him with honors he should have received and been acknowledged for eons ago. Not only was it sad but it was pathetic. The words "too little too late" don't even begin to describe the injustice done to Cash by the country music community during the last few decades of his life.

I agree with Jahfin's statement about Nashville not giving a damn about Cash until it was too late. I will say this though, the two CD set of material coming out that was just discovered should be incredible. I realize that the Legacy label is a part of Sony, however if you look at what they did with "Live at Folsom Prison, "San Quinten", "Red Headed Stranger" etc, in my opinion they did a superb job at remastering and repackaging these classics. I have to wonder though, if Columbia records hadn't dropped Johnny Cash from it's label and he continued to make lack luster records, would the public still have an interest in him. If it wasn't for Rick Rubin and Cash working together, I don't believe that much of todays younger audience would have discovered Cash. I am proud to say that I have been a Johnny Cash fan prior to American Recordings...I first discovered him through the second Highwaymen album.

Cash's music was always a big presence around my house growing up in the 70s but it wasn't until the early 90s that I actually became a fan. My nephew reintroduced me to him via one of those cheapass greatest hits collections you can get at Kmart for around 3 or 4 bucks. This is also around the time of his first American Recordings album but that didn't really play into it, it was the classics like Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Jackson, Sunday Morning Comin' Down, etc. that did it. That he went on to make even more groundbreaking music throughout the rest of his career is testimony to his tremendous artistry.

Donchuknow wrote:Some of the new CDs I'm looking forward to:
Jimmy's new one
Will Kimbrough's new one
Todd Snider's new one

What is Todd's new one?

I just purchased two new albums this morning. I bought "The Little Willies" and also the new Kris Kristofferson album. I have sampled both albums already and I highly recomend both.

My newest album purchases have been Nada Surf Let Go, Frog Holler Haywire, Rhett Miller The Believer and Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat. Out of those the only real clunker is the last one. It has 3-5 great tunes but the rest just fall flat. Considering my track record with buying records based mostly on recommendations, I'd say that's not too bad.

New Neil Young album next week!!!

I've been enjoying the new Pearl Jam record immensely. Their last album, Riot Act, was very good but this new album is the best thing they've done in years.

the pearl jam cd is great...cant wait to see them on tour

june 23rd!!!

PIA wrote:the pearl jam cd is great...cant wait to see them on tour

june 23rd!!!

No tourdates for NC. Yet.