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Michael I'm a fan, too. I like all 3 of his releases.

The first one is named after the publishing label, High Top Mountain. It's the most straightforward, shit-kickin' of the bunch, where he nicely (and more overtly) skewers mainstream Nashville country music too.

The second LP is, for me, the most ambitious, mixing some psyco-pop with the country ... just watch the video for Turtles All the Way Down > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWx6csgGkg4&index=2&list=PL89XK8DU19C24V...

Incidentally, the track you played was instead the 3rd one, Living the Dream.

I think you'll like Sailor's as well. It's slower and "more tender," and supposedly a document created for his newborn son. I think that's pretty damn neat.

All of which is to say, if anyone likes one of them, they'll only like the other two for different reasons. I like the variety.

All 3 LPs have fine sound, too!

Michael, your opening remarks made me think of him and of everyone else who ever gifted me with music that didn't absolutely excite.

I'm sure you were grateful to have received the record collection, even though most of it didn't interest you. It's probably safe to say that we LP lovers get offers such as that ... and perhaps quietly donate them to Goodwill or whatever.

I'm slowly going through what was left of my uncle's LPs and some others gifted to me. And while I'm not excited about much of it, I'm listening to them all, if for no other reason than they are time capsules that might have meant something to someone else.

I did covet all the original Sinatras among the collection I saw years ago, and they are here.

But Joanie Sommers? Eddie Cano? The soundtrack to the '70s "TCB" TV special with all the Supremes and Temptations? These "shared playlists" serve a function just like Spotify's or whatever does. Only one way to find out.

Given his age, he wasn't old enough to listen to Big Band music except as kid. The jazz records he bought were 50s-70s big band. So, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, less so Miles Davis and John Coltrane. My uncle's vocal preferences would similarly have had larger bands or orchestral arrangements. Arthur Prysock is an example.

It's an interesting snippet of jazz, a style long out of fashion (even then) and adapted to what was modern at the time. There are of course some cringeworthy arrangements, and forgettable ones of course, but wonderfully open ones, too. The fun is digging through and finding them ... what music discovery is all about. :)