Been busy this week: spent two days learning how to be diverse, one evening waiting for my neice to bring in the new Nicholson/Hoffman clan bundle of j0y, one evening rehearsing for a weekend gig. So this week's listening has been somewhat limited.
I did, however manage to listen to the Eric Clapton/ JJ Cale collaboration, Road to Escondido. For me, listening to Eric Clapton is kind of like going to McDonald's for a Big Mac. You know what you're going to get; no surprises. But every once in a while, it fits the culinary bill. Billy Preston did some really nice stuff on this CD. Derek Trucks is also a guest (if you've not had a chance to listen to him, check him out--he's a MF on slide). There is one kind of out of character song, "Dead End Road," which has a good country guitar solo, I'm guessing by Albert Lee, since he's on the credits. The one thing you have to give old Eric (and his techs, I suppose), whether you like him or not: he is a tone master. If they could model those tones, I'd be standing in line to buy. But I believe about two-thirds of tone is in your head and hands, and the rest is in the gear.
Othewise, I've been listening to the "Real Jazz" channel (ch. 70) on XM in the car. I figure if one wants to claim to know anything about jazz--and I can't--you need to be able to at least ID half the songs in the Real Book. Which I can't.
BTW, I'm linking to Amazon on some things, not because I'm interested in assisting in rationalizing their absurd P/E ratio, but because they have clips to most of these albums.
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