I recently grabbed about every song ever recorded by a few artists: Eric Clapton, Queen, Van Morrison, Jimmy Buffett, and the Police. Plus an album by the Puppini Sisters, one by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, and The Grateful Dead. My current playlist is all these songs shuffled together. I had forgotten many of the joys of The Police especially. Personally, I much prefer it to Sting's solo work. I always bagged on Andy Summers, but I think he added something to the mix that was very interesting.
The new album by Knopfler and Harris is called "All the Roadrunning," and it's a sort of folk rock album. Very interesting stuff. Knopfler done some interesting stuff since the Dire Straits days.
The Puppini sisters I grabbed mostly out of curiosity. They were performing old timey stuff like "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" and "Mr. Sandman." The cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" was interesting -- the concept of retro-dating a song, rather than updating it for modern sensibilities is always fascinating -- but not strong enough to stand on it's own. However, their cover of The Smith's "Panic" (on the streets of London, Panic on the streets of Birmingham.... Hang the DJ) was awesome. I'm not prepared to recommend this album to anyone who is vaguely interested.
