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The Rotation, #49

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The Allman Brothers Band: SEVEN TURNS (1990)*

Not a bad Allman Brothers record, is there?

Collected Tracks

  • Good Clean Fun
  • Low Down Dirty Mean
  • True Gravity

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters: THE ONES THAT STAY (2024)*

A great songwriter, a great singer, and a great band. What else do you want?

Collected Tracks

  • Clean Slate
  • The Lesson

America: ALIBI (1980)*

An unremarkable record from a once-great group.

Collected Tracks

  • N/A

Amos Lee: AMOS LEE (2005)*

Don’t know anything about this artist, but I’ve had a random song of his in the collection for a long time. Diving in.

A pleasant record. Looking forward to more of the catalog.

Collected Tracks

  • Seen It All Before
  • Give It Up

Anderson East: WORTHY (2025)*

Happy to be relatively caught up with this catalog. He’s such a talented musician whom I never hear spoken of. This is a mellower record than I was expecting. Overall there’s no drop in quality, but I guess I’m wanting something more up-tempo right now. Not taking as many tracks as I’d expected.

Collected Tracks

  • Worthy
  • Chasing You
What is The Rotation?

The primary way I build my digital music collection is by maintaining a playlist called, “The Rotation.” On this list, I load albums of artists I’m interested in hearing; mostly new-to-me artists or albums. Because I need some organizational principle to conduct this survey, I go by the alphabetical listing of the artist. I typically move from earlier records to later records, although there are exceptions. If I’m excited to hear a new album by a favorite artist I’ll add it in an apparent random placement to hear it sooner than later. From this list I’ll select tracks to add to my collection. It’s rare that I DNF a record, and uncommon for me to not select a single track from it. I’ve been doing this for a while and am currently on my 10th trip around the alphabet. Above are the albums heard in a given session and what thoughts, if any, I have about them. These are mostly first impressions, so don’t expect in-depth analysis.

Asterisks (*) after the album title indicate that it is a new-to-me record.

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