Richard Walton CD Favorites
Records that made the most impact in my musical journey (this was hard to do!) In no particular order:
STEVIE WONDER - Talking Book
JONI MITCHELL - Court And Spark
BILLY COBHAM - Spectrum
VAN MORRISON - Hymns To The Silence
PHIL KEAGGY - What A Day
PAT METHENY GROUP - Pat Metheny Group
THE ASSOCIATION - Birthday
TODD RUNDGREN - Something / Anything
YES - The Yes Album
PHILIP BAILEY - The Wonders Of His Love
KENNY LOGGINS - Celebrate Me Home
WEATHER REPORT - Heavy Weather
THE WHO - Tommy
CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG - Déjà Vu'
FREE - Highway
MICHAEL FRANKS - The Art Of Tea
SEALS AND CROFTS - Diamond Girl
SERGIO MENDES - 4 CD Box Set
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN - The Garden Of Love Light
STEELY DAN - Aja
NEW GRASS REVIVAL - On The Boulevard
DEEP PURPLE - In Rock
CHARLIE BYRD / STAN GETZ - Jazz Samba
POCO - Crazy Eyes
THE BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
DAN FOGELBERG - Home Free
CRACK THE SKY - Crack The Sky
JESSE COLIN YOUNG - Song For Julie
JEFF BECK - Blow By Blow
SIMON & GARFUNKEL - Bookends
CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
TOWER OF POWER - Tower Of Power
All-time favorite power-pop records (in no order)
JELLYFISH - Belly Button
THE POSIES - Frosting On The Beater
THE GRAYS - Ra Sham Bo
GLADHANDS - La Di Da
BIG STAR - #1 Record
THE BEATLES - Rubber Soul
BADFINGER - Wish You Were Here
DADA - American Highway Flower
THE RASPBERRIES - Starting Over
DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND - The Great Lost Album
UTOPIA - Utopia
FOTOMAKER - Fotomaker
2006 FAVORITE CD'S (no particular order)
Sara Groves – Station Wagon
The Beatles - Love
Gin Blossoms – Major Lodge Victory
Richard Walton Group – Junction
Al DiMeola – Consequences Of Chaos
David Gilmour - On An Island
Guster – Ganging Up On The Sun
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Home For Christmas
Gerry Beckley – Horizontal Fall
Bruce Cockburn – Life Short, Call Now
Chris Tomlin – See The Morning
Richard Walton - Vessel
Peter Frampton – Fingerprints
Marc Renner – goldenacre
Tommy Bolin – Whips And Roses I and II
2006 FAVORITE CONCERTS (no particular order)
Reality Jones - Mac The Club
Jon Pousette-Dart - Westside Cafe
Dada - The State Theatre
Clarke / Duke Project & Marcus Miller – Wolftrap
Donnie Iris & The Cruisers – Somerset
New Cars & Blondie – Wolftrap
Toto – Loudon Music Fest
James Gang – Blossom Music Center
Sergio Mendes & Brazil 2006 – 9:30 Club
2005 CD FAVORITES (in no particular order)
Tal Bachman - Staring Down The Sun
John Davis - John Davis|
David Pack - Unborn
Sara Groves - Add To The Beauty
Swing Out Sister - Where Our Love Grows
The Posies - Every Kind Of Light
Glenn Hughes - Soul Mover
Eric Johnson - Bloom
Djavan - Vaidade
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Richie Furay - I Am Sure
Paul Cotton - When The Coast Is Clear
Big Star - In Space
Jack Sundrud - By My Own Hand
Ringo Starr - Choose Love
David Pack - The Secret Of Moving On
Paul Weller - As Is Now
FAVORITE 2005 CONCERTS (maybe in favorite order!)
Raspberries - BB King's, N.Y.
Loggins & Messina - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Pat Metheny Trio + 1 - Ram's Head
Matt Bianco (featuring Basia) - The Birchmere
Phil Keaggy - Ram's Head
Tower Of Power - Ram's Head Live
Michael Franks - The Birchmere
Christopher Williams / Janet Griffin - Panzer House Concert
Sara Groves / Fernando Ortega / Bebo Norman - Mountain Church
Chicago - Hippodrome Theatre
Nils Lofgren - The Birchmere
J. Geils' King Of Strings - The Barns Of Wolftrap
Buddy's Buddies - Centennial High School
Steven Curtis Chapman / Casting Crowns / Chris Tomlin - 1st Mariner Arena
Swing Out Sister - Ram's Head Live
King's X - 8 x 10
Bjorn Again - The Birchmere
Stanley Clarke - Ram's Head
2004 CD FAVORITES:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
Happy The Man - The Muse Awakens
Matt Bianco (featuring Basia) - Matts Mood
Sara Groves - The Other Side Of Something
Joie Calio - The Complications Of Glitter
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Our Kind Of Soul
Christine McVie - In The Meantime
Paul Weller - Studio 150
Doug Segree - Come Again
Frank Gambale - Raison Detre
Poco - Keeping The Legend Alive
2004 CONCERT FAVORITES
dada - The State Theatre
Benoit / Freeman Project - The Ram's Head
Mutual Admiration Society - The Birchmere
Fourplay - Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival
Acoustic Alchemy - The Ram's Head
The Musical Box - Ram's Head Live
Happy The Man - The Ram's Head
PBS Special - Dover Downs
2003 FAVORITES (in no order)
Pat Metheny - On A Quiet Night
Glass Harp - Hourglass
The Bangles - Doll Revolution
Ben Taylor Band - Famous Among The Barns
Stephen Curtis Chapman - All About Love
Bob Margolis - Impetus
Ringo Starr - Ringo Rama (ltd. edition w/ DVD)
Grey Eye Glances - A Little Voodoo
Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You (ltd. edition w/ DVD)
Paul Weller - Illuminations
Daryl Hall And John Oates - Do It For Love
Art Garfunkel, Maia Sharp & Buddy Mondlock - Everything Waits To Be Noticed
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
Steve Lukather - Santamental
CONCERTS (no particular order)
Toto - 25th Anniversay Tour @ Westbury Music Theatre, Long Island N.Y.
Branford Marsalis Quartet @ Philharmonic Center, Naples Florida
John Cowan Band @ The Gordon Center, Owings Mills, Md.
Dada @ Recher Theatre Towson, Md.
Kenny Loggins @ Wolftrap Vienna, Va
Hall & Oates @ Pier 6 Baltimore, Md.
Phil Keaggy @ Covenant Life Church Gaithersburg, Md.
Poco @ Ram's Head, Annapolis, Md.
Tower Of Power - Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival
OTHER DISCOVERIES
Sara Groves - Conversations
Prefab Sprout - The Gunman And Other Stories
RE-ISSUES
The Beatles - Let It Be ... Naked
Lovin Spoonful - Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful
Chicago - XII
Ozark Mt. Daredevils - Men From Earth
David Sancious - Transformation
2002 FAVORITES (in no order)
NEW RELEASES
PATTY LOVELESS - Mountain Soul
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - Gift Of Screams
BILLY COBHAM - Culture Mix
POCO - Running Horse
JOHN OATES - Phunk Shui
JOE SAMPLE - The Pecan Tree
CARL FILIPIAK - Looking Forward, Looking Back
TOTO - Through The Looking Glass
BR549 - This Is BR549
JOSEPH D. OZNOT - A New Day
NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND - Will The Circle Be Unbroken III
CONCERTS
4 HIM - Trinity Assembly Of God
PAT METHENY GROUP - Lisner
BILLY COBHAM - The Birchmere
HAPPY THE MAN - Orion Studios
MICHAEL CARD, PHIL KEAGGY, SARA GROVES - Evangel Cathedral
JOE SAMPLE - Ram's Head
TODD RUNDGREN / HALL & OATES - Merriweather
YES - Merriweather
TOWER OF POWER - The Birchmere
LIBRARY & OTHER DISCOVERIES
DANA COOPER - Harry Truman Built A Road
ROLAND ORZABAL - Tomcats Screaming Outside
MARTIN TAYLOR - Nitelife
DAVE ELLIS - The Long Run
RACHEL Z - Trust The Universe
KATHY PHILLIPS - Sway
RE-ISSUES
SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES - Going To A Go-Go / Away We Go-Go
CHICAGO - all the individual Rhino re-issues
2001 FAVORITES
NEW RELEASES
1. PHIL KEAGGY - Lights Of Madrid
2. DAVID BACH - 5thousand Words
3. QUINCY JONES / SAMMY NESTICO ORCHESTRA - Basie & Beyond
4. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Shangri-LA-DEE-DA
5. THE BLACK CROWES - Lions
6. IVY - Long Distance
7. DERRINGER, BOGERT, APPICE - Doing Business As Usual
8. STEPHEN CURTIS CHAPMAN - Declaration
9. LAURA NYRO - Angel In The Dark
10. THE HOWLAND / IMBODEN PROJECT
11. GLENN HUGHES - Building The Machine
12. VICTOR BAILEY - That's Right!
RE-ISSUES
1. GEORGE HARRISON - All Things Must Pass
2. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - Box set
3. JO JO GUNNE - The Asylum Recordings
4. SERGIO MENDES - In Person / Pele' / Favorite Things
5. HUMBLE PIE - Live At The Fillmore West - 1969
RECENT LIBRARY & OTHER DISCOVERIES:
1. RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER - Bluegrass Rules!
2. 4HIM - Hymns
3. SONNY ROLLINS - Ken Burns Jazz (The Collection)
4. BRYAN DUNCAN - Slow Revival
5. THE NEW RADICALS - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
6. SWING OUT SISTER - Shapes & Patterns
7. WINGS - Wingspan
8. STEVE HOWE - Natural Timbre
2000 FAVORITES
NEW RELEASES
SIMPLY RED - Love And The Russian Winter
PAUL WELLER - Heliocentric (UK import)
JILL SOBULE - Pink Pearl
PAT METHENY - 99/00
LAURENCE JUBER - L J Plays The Beatles
PAUL COTTON - Firebird
DUNCAN SHEIK - Humming
DASH CROFTS - Today
RASPBERRIES - Refreshed
TODD RUNDGREN - One Long Year
XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2)
BOB MARGOLIS - Extended Senses
PAUL FEIST - Besides Myself
JOHN COWAN - John Cowan
THE RICHARD WALTON GROUP - Hear And Now
RE-ISSUES
FREE - Songs Of Yesterday (4-CD import box set)
THE JAMES GANG - Yer Album, Rides Again, Thirds (remastered)
THE SKY KINGS - From Out Of The Blue (limited edition)
TOMMY BOLIN - Snapshot
CAROLE KING - Pearls / Time Gone By (two for one)
SERGIO MENDES - The Great Arrival
THE FIFTH DIMENSION - The Magic Garden, Up Up And Away
PETER FRAMPTON - Somethin's Happening, Wind Of Change, Frampton's Camel
BURT BACHARACH - The Look Of Love (3-CD box set)
MARTI JONES - Unsophisticated Time
STEVIE WONDER - Fulfillingness First Finale , Music Of My Mind, Talking Book Innnervisions (remastered)
GLEN CAMPBELL & JIMMY WEBB - Reunion (import)
PLEASANT LIBRARY DISCOVERIES
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - Somethin' Else
CLINT BLACK - D'lectrified
AMY GRANT - Behind The Eyes
RANDY BRECKER - Into The Sun
JONATHA BROOKE - 10 Cent Wings
CROSBY/NASH- Another Stoney Evening
MANHATTAN TRANSFER - Spirit Of St. Louis, Swing
4HIM - Best Ones
RAY CHARLES- Anthology
LAURA NYRO - Stoned Soul Picnic (2-CD set)
TOWER OF POWER - What Is Hip? (2-CD set)
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL - A Ride With Bob
1999 FAVORITES
NEW RELEASES
GLENN HUGHES - The Way It Is
NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND - Bang Bang Bang
STARBELLY - Lemon Fresh
BILL LLOYD - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
TOM ALONSO - The Long Road Home
XTC - Apple Venus Vol.1
VENICE - Spin Art
JULIAN LENNON - Photograph Smile
PLATYPUS - When Pus Comes To Shove
RE-ISSUES
PAT MARTINO - First Light
MARIO MILLO - Epic III (Japan)
SEERGIO MENDESs - Swinger From Rio / Beat Of Brazil
LENNY WHITE - Venusian Summer, Big City
SUTHERLAND BROTHERS & QUIVERr - Dream Kid (UK)
THE PRETTY THINGS - Parachute
THE STYLE COUNCIL - The Complete Adventures Of (UK)
HAPPY THE MAN - Same, Crafty Hands
PETE HAM - Golders Green
1998 FAVORITES
NEW RELEASES
TY TABOR - Moonflower Lane
CINNAMON - The Courier
VENICE - Born And Raised
THE TORIES - Wonderful Life
POUNDHOUND - Massive Grooves
CHRIS HILLMAN - Like A Hurricane
20 / 20 - Interstate
KINGS X - Tape Head
LANI HALL - Brazil Nativo
CRACK THE SKY - Cut
VITAL INFORMATION - Where We Come From
DADA - Dada
RICHARD WALTON GROUP - Where Time Stood Still
STEVE WARINER - Burning The Roadhouse Down
RE-ISSUES
VAN MORRISON - The Philosopher's Stone
TOTO- XX
ELLA FITZGERALD - Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Songbook
TOMMY BOLIN - From The Archives Vol. 2
THE ELECTROMAGNETS - The Electromagnets
THE KINKS - Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola & Face To Face
ERIC JOHNSON - Seven Worlds
CLIMAX BLUES BAND - Rich Man & FM Live