2007

Our favorite part of collecting live music comes when incredible new recordings surface that we didn’t previously know about. Just this week we came across four pristine quality shows that kept us throughly entertained. As always, we share our finds with you on a weekly basis…as we go Grousing The Aisles:

Steve Winwood w/ Eric Clapton 05/19/2007 FM (FLAC, MP3):

We reported on the epic Winwood/Clapton collaboration on Saturday, and now we’ve come across a crispy FM recording of the quasi-Blind Faith reunion. Clapton joined Steve Winwood’s band for the last seven songs of their set at the Countryside Rocks festival. You can judge for yourself whether this was a monumental sit-in or two old guys trying to re-live their former glory days (I personally think the music is quite entertaining). Sure it’s weird that Winwood felt compelled to play guitar for a few of the songs, but when Steve is singing and Eric is ripping, the songs sound amazing. I particularly like Clapton’s inspired wah-playing during Presence of the Lord.

Video from the webcast of this show is also available to stream or download. For our loyal readers we’ve provided 320kbps Tagged MP3s of this bad boy.

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HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he’s an adroit wordsmith, and he’s gonna try to convince us that the bad is really good.

Not until recently did I realize how much I love Anita Baker.

I don’t know what clued me in. I should have realized her brilliantly campy appeal years ago when, while working at a country club, a fellow employee (and unrecognized pop cultural genius) complained about George Michael’s Careless Whispers being played too often throughout the establishment. I questioned her disgust with the song, as I was personally indifferent to it.

“C’mon, dude,” she said, “It’s totally an anthem for pedophiles.”

Read on for more of Eliot’s hilarious romp through Anita Baker’s mind…