Bob Weir and Ratdog - Evening Moods

Bob Weir and Ratdog
Evening Moods
Compact Disc
GDCD 4072


1. Bury Me Standing
2. Lucky Enough
3. Odessa
4. Ashes and Glass
5. Welcome to the World
6. Two Djinn
7. Corrina
8. October Queen
9. The Deep End
10. Even So


Ratdog's brand of jam-rock translates......pretty well to the studio format. It seems like the album kind of drifts after a while, but there are some groovy tracks here, among them "Lucky Enough" (closer to pop than most of the album), "Two Djinn", and the tender "Welcome to the World". I played this at work, where a coworker likened Bobby's voice to that of Terry Callier (whom I don't know, but maybe you, the reader, are familiar with him; AMG describes him as kind of R&B/jazz).

Mighty Baby - Mighty Baby

Mighty Baby (self-titled)
Compact Disc
Big Beat CDWIKD 120

1. Egyptian Tomb
2. A Friend You Know But Never See
3. I've Been Down So Long
4. Same Way From the Sun
5. House Without Windows
6. Trials of a City
7. I'm From the Country
8. At a Point Between Fate and Destiny
*~*~*bonus tracks*~*~*
9. Only Dreaming
10. Dustbin Full of Rubbish
11. Understanding Love
12. Favourite Days
13. A Saying For Today

In the opening of this compact disc's liner notes, Mighty Baby is described as "Britain's answer to the Grateful Dead". This (to me, anyway; see comments) is basically accurate. They may have had slightly better production than the early Dead records, and of course a slightly more British sense of melody, but, yeah, the Grateful Dead comparison is, to me, fairly apt.