Saturday, November 8, 2014

FM dial scan highlights VII

Noteworthy tracks heard this morning:

KDHX 88.1 FM
  • Amish Autumn-Neil Jacobs (A highlight from a CD of consistent instrumentals, "12 String Guitar."  The best track on the CD, in my opinion, is "Belfast;" it segues well with "Belfast Blues" by Brooks Williams, another guitar instrumental with a similar gallop.)
  • Wind-Shelby Lynne (A laid-back groove from the bonus track edition of "I Am Shelby Lynne." The track that received the most commercial airplay from the original version, "Gotta Get Back," is just as infectious as it was in 2000.)
WSIE 88.7 FM
  • When Sunny Gets Blue-Carmen McRae (Many listeners would think of the Johnny Mathis version of this song first.  McRae's version, however, is also a classy interpretation that holds up 50 years later.)
  • Lament-Kenny Burrell (An elegant guitar ballad, one of many in Burrell's long history.)
  • Good Morning Heartache-Emmet Cohen (An impressive piano and trumpet rendition of a well-covered song.  Laura Fygi recorded the best vocal version of it that I've heard; KNJZ used to play it, often late at night.)
WFUN 95.5 FM
  • Just My Imagination-The Temptations (Wistfulness rarely sounds this smooth; it's still one of the band's best hits.)
KIHT 96.3 FM
  • You Get What You Give-New Radicals (Still a breath of fresh air; a memorable one-hit wonder track that used to be played often on WVRV, "The River.")
  • Torn-Natalie Imbruglia (See my review of "You Get What You Give.")