Monday July 15 to Sunday July 21

It has been an unusually quiet week when it comes to music. I did some crate digging at my favourite record store, easily a 5 out of 5.

Roy Acuff is a voice that is easily recognized and a monument to smooth country and western singing. I had his Greatest Hits Vol.1, but oddly missed Vol. 2, so I corrected that this week with a clean copy at a really good price, a double album for $15.

From Wikipedia: Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the “King of Country Music”, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and “hoedown” format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. In 1952, Hank Williams told Ralph Gleason, “He’s the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn’t worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.”

I also shelve surfed for CDs and came up with Jerk With A Bomb and their album Pyrokinesis. I had listened to this on Apple Music but wanted a hard copy and came up with a like new CD for $5. I don’t know how I got connected to this band but I like their sound, it is reminiscent of a few other acts without be copy cats or plagirising. There is next to nothing about Jerk With A Bomb on the world wide web, what I do know is that they are from Vancouver and released three albums, Pyrokinesis being the last, released in January 2003. Good road music, I listened to it driving home from RCP.

I sampled and tested numerous other bits of music but these two will get the spotlight this week.