Album of the Week - 2-25-23

Afternoon folks!

Well, we've got variety this week. Starting off, we've got a double album compilation of Elmore James tunes, a few of which include Arthur Crudup, Bobo Jenkins and John Brim. Then we've got an early 70's Taj Mahal album followed by a whole bunch of blues rock. There's half of a Steppenwolf live album (the other half is a long jam which I have to work out how to split for Youtube), a classic Mountain album and the Blues Magoos. Then there's a compilation of the lesser-known band Love followed by an early album by the band Lindisfarne (the gods of copyright may have blocked a tune or two from this depending upon where Youtube thinks you are), an album by Curved Air and finally a little jazz fusion from Weather Report.

Enjoy!

Here 'tis:

Elmore James - The History Of Elmore James Volume 2

Taj Mahal - Giant Step

Steppenwolf - Early Steppenwolf

Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride

Blues Magoos - Electric Comic Book

Love - The Best Of Love

Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne

Curved Air - Airconditioning

Weather Report - Mr. Gone

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Taj, Mountain, Steppen the wolf, Magoos and the weather report
Don't get much better than this! And Elmor? Where to start?
Think at the top of the mountain. Any one here know what a
Nantucket sleigh ride is?

Thanks man!

Almost hate to do this, maybe too contemporary but

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@QMS

Is a Nantucket Sleigh Ride a cocktail?

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@janis b

It is a description of a voyage by sea to the island of Nantucket.
Between the strong tides and funneled winds between the island
and the cape, seas can build into large hill shaped swells. So you
take your 'sled' out and go for a ride.

After that adventure, a cocktail or two may have christened.

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@QMS

but I'm sure I would have been too sick to want a cocktail afterwards. You've probably had some good rides. I didn't even realise that the waters between Nantucket and The Cape could get that wild. I took many ferries from Woods Hole to Martha's Vineyard, but always during the summer, and never encountered wild weather. It makes sense that winter crossings to Nantucket could be wild.

Thanks for the clarity.

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@QMS
Per Wikipoo: "A Nantucket sleighride is the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale while whaling. It is an archaic term from the early days of open-boat whaling, when the animals were harpooned from small open boats. Once harpooned, the whale, in pain from its wound, attempts to flee, but the rope attached to the harpoon drags the whalers' boat along with it."

That's what I thought I remembered. (Nantucket was the center of the US (and world) whaling industry circa 1750-1850, until overtaken by New Bedford on the Massachusetts mainland.)

Whaling was based on greed (for the lucrative resource of whale oil, a virtual necessity until it in turn was replaced by petroleum products starting in the late 1840s), savagery (hunting and killing whales), and ignorance (because no one realized that whales, like all the cetaceans, were intelligent beings).

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@TheOtherMaven

I was speaking of the more contemporary meaning
used by the boating community between the cape and islands

since the whales are almost gone now

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From Ptown ..

“When you drive up the Cape and go to the point—all the other stuff has left you. By the end of the drive, you are someone different. You’re in a totally free environment.”

~

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@QMS

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I'm enjoying the sweet sound of Taj Mahal.

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Smile Listening to some Weather Report. Love that group, and your other tunes are great, too. I’ve been to the Vineyard. I imagine a Nantucket Sleighride as a positive image tied in with Christmas. I know it’s a brutal whaling historical one, but there’s enuff blackness in our world. Rec’d! Also wanted to point out the great LP cover art. It was a field of greatness in itself. Smile

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