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Showgoing Music!

The SoundStagers, tired and cranky from listening to too much bad music and/or too much of the same old music at show after show, would like to make some recommendations for this year's event.  So, for exhibitors, or any of our readers, if you are having trouble coming up with some good demo music, these are just some of the tunes that the SoundStagers like to hear:

  • Dave Alvin: Blackjack David [Hightone HCD 8091]
  • Gene Ammons: Boss Tenor [JVC JVCXR 0033-2]
  • The Baltimore Consort: The Ladye's Delight [Dorian DOR-90252]
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out [Columbia/Legacy CK 65122]
  • Drink Small: Electric Blues Doctor Live! [Mapleshade 01832]
  • R.L. Burnside: Come On In [Fat Possum Records 80317-2]
  • Don Byron: Bug Music [Nonesuch 79438-2]
  • Greg Brown: The Poet Game [Red House RHR CD 68]
  • Guy Clark: Boats to Build [Asylum 61442-2]
  • Dave's True Story: Sex Without Bodies [Chesky JD164]
  • Jarabe de Palo: La Flaca [Virgin H2 7243 8 41762 2 8]
  • The Gil Evans Orchestra: Out of the Cool [Impulse! IMPD-186]
  • Lisa Ekdahl: When Did You Leave Heaven [RCA Victor 74321-431752]
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass: Take Love Easy [JVC JVCXR-0031-2]
  • French Frith Kaiser Thompson: Live, Love, Larf & Loaf [Shanachie 5711]
  • Green Day: Nimrod [Reprise CDW 46794]
  • Emmylou Harris: At the Ryman [Reprise W2 26664]
  • Chris Isaak: Speak of the Devil [Reprise 9 46849-2]
  • Garland Jeffreys: Don’t Call Me Buckwheat [RCA 61112-2]
  • Jacques Loussier: Plays Bach [Telarc CD-83411]
  • The Mavericks: Trampoline [MCA Nashville MCAD-70018]
  • Andy McKee and NEXT: Sound Roots [Mapleshade 04432]
  • Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy/The Freedom Sessions [Classic Compact Discs RTHCD 2000]
  • Arvo Part: Fratres [Telarc CD-80387] Werthen conducting I Fiamminghi
  • Ruggiero Ricci, Brooks Smith: Paganini’s Dreams [John Marks Records JMR 11]
  • Alejandro Sanz: Mas [WEA CXL-20281-2]
  • Guillou/Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 "Organ" [Dorian DOR-90200]
  • Spain: The Blue Moods of Spain [Restless 7 72910-2]
  • Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hot [Mammoth MR0137-2]
  • Otis Spann: Good Morning Mr. Blues [Analogue Productions CAPR 3016]
  • James Taylor: Dad Loves His Work [Mobile Fidelity UDCD 726]
  • Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson: Rendezvous [Blue Note 7243 85548420]
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather [Epic/Legacy SBM EK 64425]
  • Loudon Wainwright III: Career Moves [Charisma 0777 7 88273 2 0]
  • Roger Waters: Amused to Death [Columbia/Legacy SBM CK 64426]
  • Brian Wilson: Imagination [Giant 924705-2]

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