The Listening Project-Week 22

Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project.  I worked a 1/2 day this week on Tuesday and had Friday off but I was still able to get through 24 CDs and managed to stay on pace for my 20 per week goal.  You can reference this blog entry for details about this project.  Here are the CDs I knocked off of my list this week.

#	Artist	Album	Date	Again?
424	Charlie Peacock	Last Vestiges of Honor	12/19/2011	Yes
425	Jennifer Knapp	Lay It Down	12/19/2011	Yes
426	Randy Stonehill	The Lazarus Heart	12/19/2011	Yes
427	Enigma	Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!	12/19/2011	Yes
428	Jim Cole	Leap of Faith	12/19/2011	Yes
429	Switchfoot	Learning To Breath	12/19/2011	Yes
430	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin Boxed Set CD 1	12/19/2011	Yes
431	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin Boxed Set CD 2	12/19/2011	Yes
432	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin Boxed Set CD 3	12/20/2011	Yes
433	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin Boxed Set CD 4	12/20/2011	Yes
434	Kansas	Leftoverture	12/20/2011	Yes
435	Various Artists	Legacy- A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac's Rumours	12/21/2011	Yes
436	Johnny Cash	The Legend Of Johnny Cash	12/21/2011	Yes
437	Various Artists	Lemstone Books Volume 5	12/21/2011	Yes
438	The Call	Let The Day Begin	12/21/2011	Yes
439	Celine Dion	Let's Talk About Love	12/21/2011	Yes
440	Charlie Peacock	Lie Down in the Grass	12/22/2011	Yes
441	Tree 63	The Life and Times Of Absolute Truth	12/22/2011	Yes
442	Global Wave System	Life Equals Death	12/22/2011	Yes
443	Various Artists	Life on the Edge	12/22/2011	Yes
444	ZOEgirl	Life	12/22/2011	Yes
445	Sweet Comfort Band	The Light Years	12/22/2011	Yes
446	Cindy Morgan	Listen	12/22/2011	Yes
447	Smalltown Poets	Listen Closely	12/22/2011	Yes

Here are my thoughts on a few of these CDs that I have listened to over the past week…

• Charlie Peacock “Last Vestiges of Honor”: This 7 song EP was sent to me by the artist himself.  He was selling some of his CDs via mail order (after he had left his label at the time) and the wife had tried to order from him for my birthday one year.  Nothing had arrived by my birthday but I did get a package shortly after that with a hand written apology for the delay and 2 extra CDs other than the one she ordered.  This was one of those extra CDs.  It is a rerelease of some of his early stuff.  You can hear parts of later songs peppered throughout.
• Randy Stonehill “The Lazarus Heart”: There is a haunting song on this CD called “That’s Why We Don’t Love God”.  Very piercing lyrics!  There is another song that was written by Cherri Keaggy as well that is a highlight.
• Enigma “Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!”: I have most of Enigma’s full albums and a few maxi-singles.  I first heard them on their single “Sadeness” where they mixed dance beats with Gregorian chant.  That CD is coming up in a few weeks in this project.
• Jim Cole “Leap Of Faith”: This guys sounds exactly like James Taylor and I am told he covers some of his songs in concert.  I had a live cassette of his once but gave it to a friend a while back.
• Led Zeppelin “4 CD Boxed Set”: This 4 CD box set was much more enjoyable than the 4 CD set of the history of jazz that I listened to a few weeks ago.  I picked this up for $5 at a Goodwill store this past summer.  The box that it came in was the size of an LP (and this was sitting with the other LPs actually).  After I opened it up and saw that it was CDs, my initial thought was to resell it on eBay.  I listened to it first and since the going rate on eBay was only about $15, I decided to keep it.
• Johnny Cash “The Legend Of Johnny Cash”: This 21 track CD covers his entire career.  The kids like “A Boy Named Sue” and “One Piece At A Time”.  His cover of the NIN song “Hurt” is haunting.  I have listened to this in the car quite a bit since I got it in the 54 CD eBay auction a month or so ago.
• Charlie Peacock “Lie Down In The Grass”: I have this on LP as well as on CD.  This is his first release.  I remember hearing him first on a weekly radio show called “Top Of The Rock" (a Christian rock top 10 countdown show produced out of Kokomo, IN).  Charlie had 3 songs of this release in the top 10 simultaneously.  Good music despite the obvious low budget he was given to work with.  Charlie actually was part of a trio called Vector before going solo.  He was not the lead singer though.
• Tree 63 “The Life and Times Of Absolute Truth”: I have taken great pains to get all of Tree 63’s releases.  There were 2 CDs released only in the UK (this band is from South Africa) and I got those as a 2 CD rerelease off of eBay (the UK version).  Then there was a fan only release that I got via guessing the correct email address for the admin of their website (that had been apparently abandoned).  This one was easy to get as I found it on the clearance rack at a bookstore.  They even appear on a tribute CD to Michael W. Smith (I have that CD as well).  The band called it quits about 2 years ago but just yesterday I heard a Christmas song on the local Christian radio station that was a duet between Tree 63 and Barlow Girl.  I may have to spend some time hunting that one down.

Many people were on vacation at work this week so despite the 3 1/2 day work week, I still made my quota of 20 CDs.  The Listening Project now takes a week off due to the holidays.  I am currently at 47.1% complete and there are no CD shaped presents under the Christmas tree.

Jon