My job let's me travel to St. Louis frequently. I lived there for over 17 years. Anyway the big nice independent record store there is Vintage Vinyl. Great place. Plenty of surly music snob record store employees too. Anyway, still one of my favorite places in the world. I picked up a used copy of The Band's Jericho. It is a post-Robbie Robertson album. It puts Levon Helm back in the driver's seat of band leader...a role that he originally had back in the day. I listen to Don Imus via RFD TV. Imus, who adores Levon Helm, often uses as his bumper music the cover of Bruce Springsteen's Atlantic City which is from this album. It is stunning. Besides drums, Levon's instrument is the mandolin, which is the lead instrument on this tune's version.
I grabbed up Drive-By Trucker's new album which is an outtake album (in the vein of Dead Letter Office). I will review it once I have listened to it.
I also got local St. Louis musician Bob Reuter's album Thee Dirty South. I really like this guy. Nuff said for now, I'll review it eventually too. Good finds at Vintage Vinyl today. I am satisfied.
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