My favorite, fairly new, rock band is Drive By Truckers. Start with "Southern Rock Opera" and their music just gets better and better after that. If there's any justice left, this group will hit it big soon.

Don't know if they're definitive, but a couple of CD's that I really like, in the Gershwin "pop" vein are: "Nice Work if You Can Get It" Ella Fitzgerald and Andre Previn do Gershwin and "Someone to Watch Over Me" Susannah McCorkle The Songs of George Gershwin.

If you're really looking for banjo meets heavy metal, try out a group named Iron Horse. They are a bluegrass group that have put out two heavy metal tribute albums. The first was "Fade to Bluegrass" a tribute to Metallica, and "Black & Bluegrass" a tribute to Ozzy Ozbourn and Black Sabbath.

Open Road - Cowboy Junkies Live from Austin TX - Lucinda Williams Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads Black & White Night - Roy Orbison

Really enjoying this thread. Have many of the albums mentioned, and will probably check out a few more. How about some "stuff" for the people that recorded before albums started? W.C. Handy Bessie Smith Sister Rosetta Thorpe Muddy Waters John Lee Hooker Robert Johnson Fred Astaire (he...

Son Volt - "Okemah and the Melody of Riot" Drive By Truckers - "Southern Rock Opera" Tab Benoit - "Fever for the Bayou" Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell - 'Begonias" John Hiatt - "Master of Disaster" Emmylou Harris - "Brand New Dance"

If you haven't already got it, you might want to try Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings. He was one of Clapton's, and many other artists, inspirations. I've seen it advertised on the net for $14 to $23. Cheap at twice the price.

Nickel Creek - the poster child for progressive bluegrass Rhonda Vincent - good stuff Iron Horse - have done albums of Metallica and Black Sabbath covers done bluegrass style

Don't think this has been mentioned in either thread, but I may have missed it: Lou Reed from Rock and Roll Animal "Introduction Sweet Jane".

Here's a few artists off the top of my head, many have done multiple CD's. Gram Parsons Emmylou Harris Uncle Tupelo (spawned both Wilco and Son Volt) Steve Earle Lucinda Williams Gillian Welch Whiskeytown (both Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary from this group have done solo albums) You can...

Roy Orbison - Black & White Nights Roy with some famous friends.

Bob Dylan Warren Zevon Leonard Cohen Lucinda Williams Steve Earle Bruce Springsteen Lyle Lovett

I don't have any purely Chieftans CD's, but I do have three of their CD's where they team up with other artists. I think the best of the three is "The Long Black Veil". If you're not looking for a purist Chieftans CD this is a very good choice. Even Tom Jones sounds good on this CD.

Art Tatum The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces Art Tatum The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces The Lady Billie Holiday Complete Collection (Complete CBS recordings 1933-1942) The Patsy Cline Collection

Can't remember if both of these movies came out in the last year but I think they did: David Mamet's "Spartan" with Val Kilmer "Identity" with John Cusack Both are in the thriller/suspense category. Both are in the you don't know who's who or what's what until the end. Both probably require a...

Bluesville on XM radio has been playing a lot of cuts off a CD by Guitar Shorty named "Watch Your Back" so I picked it up. Very good rock/blues player. He's been making music since 1957. He was Jimi Hendrix's brother in law, and supposedly taught him some of his stage moves. Excellent CD, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by highflyin9 Would you be able to fit a discman and a mint in there too? I just tried this out, somewhat. I can place a small discman (Panasonic SL-CT570 on top of the headband. Then I slipped a can of mints (don't have a mint amp) under the discman, and...

Sorry, can't post pictures of the Pelican 1200, don't have a digital camera. The width and length are are an almost perfect fit. When you close the case you are compressing foam, but not by much. I like the snugness, so that the phones don't move around. You can fit a set of 600's with a Cardas...

I use the Pelican 1200 models for Senn HD 600 and Grado RS 1 storage. It is a good, snug fit for the Senns, but does no harm.

Another, very underated, jazz singer you might like is Susannah McCorkle. She put out many albums, including four or five albums where all songs are by one composer. My favorite is "The Songs of Johnny Mercer".

Quote: Originally Posted by Tuberoller Want to hear something funny? John-jcb,Todd Green and myself have been having the same problem of rarely using the Stealth for headphones and listening much less to phones since purchasing the Stealth. It's an amazing preamp. Me too. I...

If you haven't listened to any of Caitlin Cary's solo efforts, you might want to try them. I personally like her solo offerings better than Ryan Adam's. "I'm Staying Out" was one of my favorite CD's of 2003.

Here's a couple of links for Adire speaker kits, and others. www.acoustic-visions.com www.diycable.com

I've been using Don Dorseys "Bachbusters" on Telarc a lot lately. Tocacata & Fugue in D minor has a little bit of everything, highs, mids, and some room shaking bass.

Haven't used 300B's with headphones, but use a couple of 300B monoblocs in my main speaker system. Most, but not all, 300B systems put out low power 5-10 watts so you need higher efficiency speakers, 95 db and above, to take full advantage of the amp. I've seen some 300B amps that put out 20-25...