The Listening Project–Supplemental Blog 7

I have a renewed interest in music lately ever since the wife bought me an acoustic guitar.   When I was at my local Half Priced Book store looking for a guitar book I could not help sitting down in front of the bargain rack (it is very close to the floor) and seeing what I could find.  Here was my haul from last weekend.

#	Artist	Album	Date Listened	Again?
1142	Bon Jovi	7800° Fahrenheit	3/11/2013	Yes
1143	Neil Diamond	The Best of Neil Diamond	3/11/2013	Yes
1144	Rich Mullins	Brother's Keeper	3/11/2013	Yes
1145	Neil Diamond	The Jazz Singer	3/12/2013	Yes
1146	Various Artists	O Brother- The Story Continues	3/12/2013	Yes
1147	Matthew West	The Story of Your Life	3/13/2013	Yes

• Neil Diamond “The Best Of” & “The Jazz Singer”: This brings my Neil Diamond CD count to 5.  My mother used to have “The Jazz Singer” on 8 track and though I have never seen the movie I recognize about 1/2 the songs.  The Best of CD has a few duplicates from my other CDs but at a $1 one cannot be choosy.
• Rich Mullins “Brother’s Keeper”: The brings my Rich Mullins CD count to 6.  I have been trying to strum out a few Rich Mullins songs on the guitar (“Awesome God” is easy enough).
• Various Artists “O Brother- The Story Continues”: This is nothing short of a CD that tried to jump on the bandwagon from the successful soundtrack to the movie.  It is just 20 or so really, really, really old song recordings (read: not great quality) that sound like they belong on the movie’s soundtrack.  I think I might have overpaid but the early versions of “Man of Constant Sorrow” are probably worth it.

Well there you have it.  Along with these CDs I also bought a Beatles “easy guitar” songbook and have been torturing my family with the G – Bm – Em – C – F chords of “Help!”.

Jon