The Librarians Are Listening To....

Believe it or not, librarians own iPods, and those iPods are not filled solely with recordings of soothing string quartets!  So what's on my iPod?  I have fairly wide-ranging musical tastes, so it's a real hodgepodge, but here are some highlights from each genre:

Rock: Amy Winehouse's Back to Black is about to be added this weekend, several albums from Sleater-Kinney, Bettie Serveert, and the Spinanes, and . . . showing just how old I am, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street and Bruce Springsteen's Greetings from Asbury Park.

Blues:  Little Freddie King's Sing Sang Sung, Skip James' Hardtime Killing Floor Blues, and Snooky Pryor and his Mississippi Wrecking Crew

Country:  Wille Nelson's Greatest Hits and Johnny Cash's The Fabulous Johnny Cash

Folk:  Be Good Tanyas' Blue Horse, Jolie Holland's Escondida, Mary Lou Lord's Live City Sounds, and Po' Girl.

Jazz:  Helen Humes' Swingin' with Humes, Helen Merrill, Blossom Dearie's Once Upon A Summertime, A Jazz Date With Chris Connor, and Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Guiltiest Pleasures:  You're The One That I Want (from the 1978 Grease soundtrack), Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder

Comments

[Ed Batista]

Nice mix!

[Troy Cook]

I think Nick Gilder can be promoted out of the "guilty pleasure" catagory. I went to the Beauty Bar one Wednesday night & a bunch of hipster kids were dancing to "Hot Child in the City" (not ironically either); it was Glam night there & good old Nick was having a revival! Also, did you know that Nick was in a Glam band called Sweeney Todd? They had a hit called "Roxy Roller"; you should put that on your I-Pod also.
Troy

[Amy Wright]

Wow, Nick is so old he's new again! Who knew?