good sounding cd's


hi again a'goners. ok, heres my question/dilemna?! just about got my system teaked out, new pc, upgraded cdp. while most of my cd's sound good, others just sound awesome, like what you expect them all to sound like with the money invested. case in point: john fogerty's "revival" cd. another one is johnny a's "get inside". anyone have any suggestions on really great sounding music out there in the blues, blues/rock, fusion genre? thanks again.
gilman61255
Try:
Dave Matthews - Under the Table Dreaming
Bettye LaVette - I Got My Own Hell to Raise
Floratone - Floratone
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions

and

Bruce Cockburn - Nothing but a Burning Light

Not sure if this last one is still being sold new, but it is a gem with Booker T. Jones, Jim Keltner, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Conner, T-Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne and Sam Phillips among others, with Burnett doing some sparse and haunting production work.

One last idea, the musical material on the Stereophile test CDs is fantastic and really well recorded. Make a custom CD of just the musical cuts and then sit back and explore what your system can do...
Dire Straits- On every Street
Alice in Chains- Unplugged.
We did this already.
Try these. They are all fantastic sounding! They all have fantastic music as well!

Keb' Mo'- Suitcase
Jake Shimabukuro - Dragon
Madeiline Peyroux - Careless Love
Eva Cassidy - Live At Blues Alley
Sam Cooke - Night Beat
I assume that you are looking for material that is really layered, well placed, lots of black around each voice and instrument. In short great production.

All The Road Running with Mark Knopfler and EmmyLou Harris

Am waiting for the new Cowboy Junkies CD to arrive - from the previews I have heard its a stunner.

I agree with Bongofury that Baja Sessions from Chris Isaak is also very well done.

Clapton's Riding With The King (with BB King)should do it
for you

A simply great album is Maria Muldaur's A Woman Alone With The Blues
Fogerty's "Blue Moon Swamp", at least the later release with two bonus tracks, has top notch sound quality as good as I've heard on a pop/rock CD and the music is absolutely fantastic from start to finish. A true gem of a CD recording! I just listened to it immediately after "Gaucho" by Steely Dan on vinyl and it was clearly in the same league in regards to sound quality

So now my question is are there any remastered versions of original Creedence material that can come close to "Blue Moon Swamp" in terms of sound quality?

I have several original vinyl copies that suffer greatly from limited dynamic and frequency range and an original issue (not remastered)CD copy of "Green River" that is also quite limited.