BUCK'S BEST-OF LISTS
(Note: Why
do I think anyone cares about my opinion
of what's
best? Actually I don't. It's just that I have a
terrible
memory, and several years from now this should
help me
remember some of the things that I liked )
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| 1. Various Artists: Goin' Home – Tribute to Fats Domino |
1. Pete Townsend guest appearance with Ian McClagan & the Bump Band at The Austin Music Awards (also with Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel, Barbara K, Michelle Shocked, Carrie Rodriguez, Shawn Sahm and the Tex Mex Experience with Augie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez, James Cotton, and Jimmie Vaughan) - Austin Convention Center, 03/14/07 | 1. Pan’s Labyrinth |
| 2. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand |
2. The N'awlins Funkmasters featuring Bernie Worrell, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli, Henry Butler, and Ivan Neville, with Porter, Batiste and Stoltz - The Howlin' Wolf (New Orleans), 04/29/07 | 2. No Country for Old Men |
| 3. JJ Grey & Mofro - Country Ghetto |
3. Aretha Franklin - Bass Concert Hall, 04/19/07 | 3. Children of Men
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| 4. Toni Price - Talk Memphis |
4. Booker T. and the MG's featuring Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, with William Bell and Eddie Floyd - Palmer Events Center, 11/08/07 | 4. Atonement
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| 5. Omar Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - Jimmy Reed Highway |
5. Railroad Earth, BeauSoleil, The Dynamites, Joss Stone, J.J. Grey & Mofro, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Ryan Shaw, Amy Lavere, DeVotchKa, Charlie Musselwhite, My Morning Jacket - ACL Music Fesival @ Zilker Park, 9/14-16/05/07 | 5. V For Vendetta |
| 6. The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster |
6. The Ponderosa Stomp, including Raye Sharpe, Lil Buck Sinegal, Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural, Tammy Lynn, Willie Tee, Barbara Lynn, and Archie Bell - Opal Divine's Freehouse, 03/16/07 | 6. The Golden Compass |
| 7. Elana James |
7. Nickel Creek - Stubb's Bar-B-Q, 11/17/07 | 7. Stranger than Fiction |
| 8. Joseph Israel - Gone are the Days |
8. Los Straitjackets with Big Sandy - Continental Club, 03/15/07 | 8. Ratatouille
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| 9. Larry Lange & the Lonely Knights – Crazy, Crazy Baby |
9. New Riders of the Purple Sage, with guest appearance by Pinetop Perkins - Stubb's Bar-B-Q, 01/24/07 | 9. Babel |
| 10. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - This is Somewhere |
10. Wanda Jackson and Elana James with Erik Hokkanen - Continental Club, 10/15/07 | 10. Once |
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| 1. Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing |
1. Rolling Stones with Los Lonely Boys and Ian McLagan & The Bump Band - Zilker Park, 10/22/06 | 1. The Departed |
| 2. New Orleans Social Club - Sing Me Back Home |
2.Van Morrison, Los Lobos, New Orleans Social Club, Thievery Corporation, Galactic, The Raconteurs, Willie Nelson, Kathleen Edwards, Damian Marley, Subdudes, KT Tunstall, Buckwheat Zydeco, White Ghost Shivers, Mishka - ACL Music Fesival @ Zilker Park, 9/15-17/05 | 2. A Scanner Darkly |
| 3. JJ Cale & Eric Clapton - The Road to Escondido |
3. Louisiana at Town Lake: The New Orleans Social Club, Allen Toussaint, BeauSoleil, Buckwheat Zydeco, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ivan Nevilles' Dumpstaphunk, and Sam Moore with Travis Tritt - Auditorium Shores, 3/18/06 | 3. The 3 Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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| 4. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk |
4. Mofro with The Greyhounds - Antone's, 10/20/06 | 4. Casino Royale |
| 5. Van Morrison - Pay the Devil |
5. David Bromberg with Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen - Cactus Cafe, 3/03/06 | 5. Inside Man |
| 6. Sinead O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms |
6. Matisyahu with Balkan Beat Box - Stubb's Bar-B-Q, 3/11/06 | 6. Good Night and Good Luck |
| 7. Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun |
7. Chris Isaak - The Backyard, 9/08/06 | 7. Match Point |
| 8. Bruce Springsteen - The Seeger Sessions |
8. Raul Malo - The Glenn at the Backyard, 6/24/06 | 8. Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny |
| 9. Matisyahu - Youth |
9. Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar with Redd Volkaert (Slide-o-Rama III) - Cactus Cafe, 09/28/06 | 9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
| 10. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way |
10. James Hunter - Antone's, 5/25/06 | 10. Supersize Me |
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Best Live CDs - Bruce Springsteen & the E Sreet Band - Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East - Papa Grows Funk - Live at The Leaf - Sir Douglas Quintet Live From Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits)
Best Box Set
Best Reissues / Compilations |
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| 1. CC Adcock - Lafayette Marquis |
1. Robert Plant & the Strange Sensation & The Soundtrack of our Lives - Austin Music Hall, 3/17/05 | 1. Crash |
| 2. Tony Joe White - The Heroines |
2.Roky Erickson, Ruthie Foster, Kermit Ruffins, Steve Earle, Buddy Guy, Morgan Heritage, Dave Alvin, Mofro, Drive-By Truckers - ACL Music Fesival @ Zilker Park, 9/23-25/05 | 2. Be Here to Love Me (T. Van Zandt bio) |
| 3. Marcia Ball - Live! Down the Road |
3. Steve Earle & The Dukes with Allison Moorer - La Zona Rosa, 2/03/05 | 3. Syriana |
| 4. Los Super 7 - Heard It on the X |
4. Los Lobos and True Believers - Antone's, 10/27/05 | 4. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire |
| 5. John Hiatt - Master of Disaster |
5. Cyril Neville & Papa Mali - Threadgill's, 9/09/05 | 5. Million Dollar Baby |
| 6. Greencards - Weather & Water |
6. John Hiatt & North Mississippi Allstars - Stubb's, 7/23/05 | 6. The Constant Gardener |
| 7. Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs |
7. Dave Alvin - Continental Club, 2/17/05 | 7. Kung Fu Hustle |
| 8. Various Artists - Our New Orleans 2005 |
8. Etta James - U.T. Hogg Auditorium, 7/13/05 | 8. The Aristocrats |
| 9. Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me |
9. Papa Grows Funk & Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes - The Parish, 12/03/05 | 9. Schultze Gets the Blues (old German guy discovers Zydeco) |
| 10. Various Artists - Rough Guide - Zydeco |
10. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - The Parish, 5/21/05 | 10. Cold Mountain |
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Best Tribute
- Are You Rolling Bob? - Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan Best
Box Set
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| 1.
Los Lobos - The Ride |
1. Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale, Robert Randolph, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Hubert Sumlin - Crossroads Music Festival @ Dallas Fair Park, 6/5/04 | 1. Fahrenheit 911 |
| 2. Ben Harper & Blind Boys of Alabama - There Will Be a
Light |
2. Ben Harper, Solomon Burke, Los Lonely Boys, The Neville Brothers, Joe Ely, The Wailers, Antibalas, Drive By Truckers, Mofro - ACL Music Fesival @ Zilker Park, 9/17-19/04 | 2.
Kill Bill, Part 2 |
| 3. Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now |
3. Hot Tuna - Cactus Cafe, 2/12/04 | 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 4. Mofro - Lochloosa |
4. John Fogerty - The Backyard, 8/7/04 | 4. The Incredibles |
| 5. Particle - Launchpad |
5. Buddy Guy with Double Trouble - Stubbs, 4/17/04 | 5. The Life Aquatic |
| 6. Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South |
6. Kacey Chambers - La Zona Rosa, 11/8/04 | 6. Big Fish |
| 7. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who is This America? |
7. Little Richard - Austin Music Hall, 3/18/04 | 7. Mystic River |
| 8. The Gourds - Blood of the Ram |
8. Roy Head - Continental Club, 9/10/04 | 8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| 9. Toots and the Maytals - True Love |
9. Papa Grows Funk and Mofro - The Parish, 6/25-26/04 | 9. Shrek 2 |
| 10. The Neville Brothers - Walking in the Shadow of Life |
10. Macy Gray - House of Blues,Las Vegas, 11/18/04 | 10. Bubba Ho-Tep |
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Best Live CDs
- The Blasters - Going Home - Hound Dog Taylor - Release the Hound - Shelley King - Rockin' The Dancehall Best
Compilation
Best
Reissue
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| 1. Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys | 1. Los Lobos, Drive By Truckers, and Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Austin City Limits Music Festival @ Zilker Park, 9/20/03 | 1. Lost in Translation |
| 2. Chris Smither - Train Home | 2. Los Lonely Boys and Doyle Bramhall - Zilker Park Blues on the Green, 8/20/03 | 2. The Return of the King |
| 3. Jorma Kaukonen - Blue Country Heart | 3. Ratdog - The Fillmore, San Francisco, 3/4/03 | 3. Kill Bill, Part 1 |
| 4. Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day | 4. Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin', Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, and Keith Frank, Mid-City Lanes, New Orleans, 4/24/03 | 4. Punch-Drunk Love |
| 5. James Cotton - 25th Anniversary Jam | 5. Bembeya Jazz - Centennial Square - Victoria, BC, Canada, 8/7/03 | 5. The Shipping News |
| 6. Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood | 6. Chris Smither - Cactus Cafe, 10/15/03 | 6. About Schmidt |
| 7. Bembeya Jazz - Bembeya | 7. Jorma Kaukonen and Blue Country - Cactus Cafe, 2/6/03 | 7. Catch Me if You Can |
| 8. Brian Stoltz - East of Rampart Street | 8. Burning Spear - Flamingo Cantina, 10/16/03 | 8. Chicago |
| 9. Neil Young - Greendale | 9. The Booze Weasels - Continental Club, 2/1/03 | 9. The Italian Job |
| 10. Al Green - I Can't Stop | 10. Willie Nelson and The Grateful Dead - Two River Canyon Amphitheatre, 7/4/03 | 10. The Bourne Identity |
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Best Live CDs
- The Allman Brothers - Live at The Atlanta Pop Festival, 1970 - Bob Dylan - Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Review - Bonerama - Live at the Old Point - Heybale - ContinentaLive Best
Best of
Best
Tribute
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| 1. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Live at the Wetlands | 1. JJ Cale - Texas Union Ballroom, 41/6/02 | 1. Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me | 2. The Rolling Stones - SBC Center, San Antonio, 11/23/02 | 2. K-Pax |
| 3. Champ Hood - Bon Haven | 3. Blind Boys of Alabama, Los Lobos, Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Austin City Limits Music Festival @ Zilker Park, 9/28-29/02 | 3. Tortilla Soup |
| 4. Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls | 4. Rat Dog - La Zona Rosa, 4/30/02 | 4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| 5. The Flatlanders - Now Again | 5. Ronnie Dawson - Continental Club, 9/4/02 | 5. Road to Perdition |
| 6. Etta James and the Roots Band - Burnin' Down the House | 6. Los Lobos and Old & In the Gray - Austin Music Hall (E-Town), 10/28/02 | 6. Minority Report |
| 7. Old & In The Gray | 7. Tenacious D and String Cheese Incident - Waterloo Park, 4/4/02 | 7. What Lies Beneath |
| 8. Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses | 8. Down From the Mountain Tour - Erwin Center, 7/19/02 | 8. Insomnia |
| 9. Dirty Dozen - Medicated Magic | 9. North Mississippi Allstars - Austin Music Hall, 7/17/02 | 9. Vanilla Sky |
| 10. Cornell Hurd Band - Song of South Austin | 10. Lyle Lovett and His Large Band and Bonnie Raitt - The Backyard, 9/4/02 | 10. Moulin Rouge |
| Honorable
Mention
- Norah Jones - Come Away With Me - Ratdog - Live at the Roseland Theater - Susand Tedeschi - Wait For Me - Delbert McClinton - Room to Breathe - Dixie Chicks - Home Best
Reissue
/ Best of
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Special
Mention
- Worst Concert - Dave Wakeling of The English Beat and his pre-recorded tape machine - Best New Event - Austin City Limits Music Festival |
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| 1. Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go | 1. Double Trouble and Friends 1/12/01 Austin Music Hall | 1. Oh Brother Where Art Thou |
| 2. O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack | 2. Los Lobos 10/27/01 Stubbs | 2. Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon |
| 3. Toni Price - Midnight Pumpkin | 3. David Byrne 11/29/01 La Zona Rosa | 3. The Virgin Suicides |
| 4. Double Trouble - Been A Long Time | 4. Southern Culture on the Skids 9/21/01 Continental Club | 4. Amelie |
| 5. Marcia Ball - Presumed Innocent | 5. The Itals 8/4/01 Flamingo Cantina | 5. Grateful Dawg |
| 6. JJ Cale - Live | 6. Ronnie Dawson 5/11/01 Continental Club | 6. Chocolat |
| 7. Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm | 7. Ike Turner 9/29/01 Antones | 7. Heist |
| 8. Poet - Tribute to Townes Van Zandt | 8. Lil Bnd of Gold and Heybale 6/16/01 Continental Club | 8. Shrek |
| 9. Elmore James - Shake Your Moneymaker | 9. Neville Family (Cyril and Ivan) Tribal Affair 6/1/01 Antones | 9. Best in Show |
| 10. Funky Meters - Fiyo at the Fillmore | 10. Junior Brown, Kasey Chambers, & Buckwheat Zydeco 3/17/01 Waterloo Park | 10. America's Sweethearts |
| Honorable
Mention
- North Mississippi All-Stars - 51 Phantom - Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm - Ike's Instrumentals - Garcia and Grisman - Grateful Dawg - Anders Osborn - Ash Wednesday Blues - Greezy Wheels - Millennium Greezy |
Special
Mention
- Biggest Rip-off: Femi Kuti and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe at Stubbs - For some reason, the headliner, Femi Kuti, went on first and we missed almost his entire set - Weirdest Venue - Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe at The Crockett Center (former home of Best Products) - Worst Show: Jeff Beck (blech) |
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| 1. Sweet Mary's Pickup Band - Armadillo Thanksgiving Day Jam | 1. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 4/7/00 The Frank Erwin Center | 1. High Fidelity |
| 2. Muddy Waters - Mojo | 2. Nashville Pussy 3/17/00 Stubbs Bar-B-Q | 2. Erin Brockovich |
| 3. Willie Nelson - Milk Cow Blues | 3. Sweet Mary Aid 12/10/00 La Zona Rosa | 3. Croupier |
| 4. Garcia, Grisman, Rice - The Pizza Tapes | 4. Willis Alan Ramsey, Peter Rowan, Tony Rice 4/08/00 Old Settlers Music Festival | 4. Charlie's Angels |
| 5. Neil Young - Road Rock | 5. The Booze Weasels 8/19/00 Continental Club | 5. Girl Interrupted |
| 6. Joe Ely - Live at Antones | 6. The Flatlanders 2/22/00 Cactus Cafe | 6. Buena Vista Social Club |
| 7. Billy Burnette - Are You With Me Baby | 7.
King Sunny
Ade 4/14/00
La Zona Rosa |
7. The Cider House Rules |
| 8. Wailing Souls - Equality | 8. Tom Tom Club 11/03/00 Flamingo Cantina | 8. October Sky |
| 9. Morphine - The Night | 9. Little Milton 9/23/00 Midtown Live | 9. U-541 |
| 10. Terri Hendrix - Places In Between | 10. Burning Spear 10/27/00 Flamingo Cantina | 10. Chicken Run |
| Honorable
Mention
- BB King & Eric Clapton - Riding With the KIng - Kim Richey - Glimmer - Jimmy Dale Gilmour - One Endless Night - Papa Mali - Thunder Chicken - Leroi Brothers - Kings of the Catnap - Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya |
Honorable
Mention
- The Wailers 2/25/00 Antones - Patty Smith 3/17/00 Waterloo Park - Coco Montoya 4/04/00 Antones - Bo Diddley 10/28/00 La Zona Rosa - Shelby Lynn, Taj Mahal, Rickie Lee Jones, Kim Richey 12/1/00 KGSR 10th Anniversary Party |
11.
The Perfect
Storm
Note: Thanks to the birth of our son, Aaron, a number of these were 1999 movies that we saw on video in 2000. |
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| 1. Roy Head - White Texas Soul Shouter (the Crazy Texas Recordings) | 1. Lucinda Williams 4/24/99 House of Blues New Orleans | 1. American Beauty |
| 2. Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughn - In Session | 2. Antone's Blues Festival 5/21/99 Waterloo Park | 2. Being John Malkovich |
| 3. Clash - From Here to Eternity | 3. Doug Sahm Tribute 12/14/99 Antones | 3. The Straight Story |
| 4. Burning Spear - Calling Rastafari | 4. Bernie Worrell & the Woo Warriors 4/30/99 Antones | 4. Go |
| 5. The Jimmie Rogers All-Stars - Blues Blues Blues | 5. Dick Dale 11/12/99 Stubbs | 5. Run Lola Run |
| 6. The Damnations - Half Mad Moon | 6. Antones 24th Anniversary Show 7/15/99 Antones | 6. Rushmore |
| 7. Ronnie Dawson - More Bad Habits | 7. Burning Spear 9/9/99 Stubbs | 7. The Matrix |
| 8. Toni Price - Low Down and Up | 8. Bobby Blue Bland and Susan Tedeschi 1/31/99 Austin City Limits | 8. The Sixth Sense |
| 9. Asleep at the Wheel - Ride With Bob | 9. The Abyssinians 2/25/99 Flamingo Cantina | 9. Eyes Wide Shut |
| 10. Terri Hendrix - Live | 10. Ismael Issac / Ramses De Kimon 8/27/99 Flamingo Cantina | 10. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrelss |
| 11. Texas Tornadoes - Live From the Limo Vol.1 | 11. Link Wray 8/25/99 Continental Club | 11. Cookie's Fortune |
| 12. Laurel Aitken & The Skatalites - Ska Titans | 12. Lynyrd Skynyrd / ZZ Top 12/30/99 Erwin Center | 12. The Blair Witch Project |
| Honorable
Mention
- Santana - Supernatural - Boozoo Chavez - Who Stole my Monkey - Bruce Springsteen - 18 Tracks |
Honorable
Mention
- ? and the Mysterians 3/16/99 The Electric Lounge - Gloriathon 7/23/99 Liberty Lunch -Tary Owens Benefit 12/1/99 Antones - Wille Nelson Blues Band 12/15/99 La Zona Rosa |
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| 1. Old & In the Way, Breakdown Vol II, Acoustic Archive Series | 1. Etta James, House of Blues (New Orleans), 4/26/98 |
| 2. Hepcat - Right on Time | 2. Willie Nelson/Leon Russell, Antones, 7/3/98 |
| 3. Dr. John - Anutha Zone | 3. Bo Diddley, Gruene Hall, 4/18/98 |
| 4. Ronnie Dawson - Live at the Continental Club | 4. Los Super Seven, La Zona Rosa, 12/8/98 |
| 5. David Lindley with Wally Ingram - Bango Twango | 5. David Lindley & Wally Ingram, Stubbs, 11/14/98 |
| 6. Lucinda Williams - Carwheels on a Gravel Road | 6. Wailing Souls/Let's Go Bowling, Flamingo Cantina, 10/19/98 |
| 7. Beau Jocque - Beau Jocque Boogie | 7. Jethro Tull, 7/21/98, The Backyard |
| 8. Ball, Thomas, & Nelson - Sing It! | 8. Shawn Colvin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Malford Millican & Stephen Bruton,Kris McKay, Sarah Hickman, La Zona Rosa, 6/7/98 |
| 9. Big Blues Extravaganza - Best of Austin City Limits | 9. Son Seals, Antones, 3/7/98 |
| 10. Joe Ely - Twisting in the Wind | 10. Junior Brown with Buddy Miles, Continental Club, 11/6/98 |
| 11. Etta James - Life, Love, and the Blues | Honorable Mention: Irma Thomas, Beau Jocque, Southern Culture on the Skids, Skatalites, Guy Clark & Terry Allen, Doug Sahm & Last Real TexasBlues Band |
| 12. Putumayo Presents: Reggae Around the World | |
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