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daniel amos (was: questions i combined (no otr))

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, The Mattrix wrote:

> > Well, as you may know, Daniel Amos albums often take a while to grow
> > on the band's fans, and I am therefore of two minds when it comes to
> > how quickly and how readily everyone seems to have cottoned to this
> > album.  I like it a lot, but for me, it's not quite the band's best
> > stuff (which, for me, would be 1987's _Darn Floor - Big Bite_,
> > followed closely by 1993's _Motor Cycle_ ... or was that a 1992
> > album?  Anyhoo).
>
> Wow.  Our tastes are different.  What's your favorite tune from
> "Motorcycle"?

Oh, I like 'em all, but 'Grace Is the Smell of Rain' and 'Hole in the
World' are right up there.  I'm also one of the seemingly few DA fans who
really likes 'Guilty' (a lot of people who like that album don't care for
that particular tune, but for some reason it works for me).

> (I like the first three and "Wise Acres")

Yeah, 'Hole in the World' is one of the first three.  Actually, the fourth
track, '(What's Come) Over Me', is pretty good too (even if I can't hear
the harmonica on that track any more without thinking of the Beatles' 'I
Should Have Known Better').  The two songs about Terry's kids -- 'Noelle'
and 'Buffalo Hills' -- are also pretty cool, in my books.

> As for me, I tend to prefer "Kalhoun" above all the others.

Ah, you're one of *those* Daniel Amos fans.  :)

> How about that first box set M8 put out?

I already had all four discs on CD anyway -- and the original CDs of two
of those albums had bonus tracks that are missing from the "book set" --
but the book itself was pretty nice.  Especially when you consider how
amateurish a lot of M8's other product has been.

> I'm not sure if I'd like the techno-era DA, as I REALLY disiked "Vox
> Humana".

Awww, but that was the album that turned me on to the band in the first
place!  :)

> The ancient country and western sounding DA is being made available
> again, isn't it?

Well, 1977's _Shotgun Angel_ has been re-issued, yes.  You can also
download most (but not all) of that album from the band's mp3.com site.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/21/daniel_amos.html

> How about that second box set, that out yet?  "Orange Grotesteques" vol
> 2? 

See http://www.danielamos.com/ and all your questions will be answered.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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