A Few Recent Finds ...

A little bragging on AmazonMP3's latest availability options ...

• Some of the older Derek Webb solo albums, plus his remix of some of his hits. There's also an increase in some of the older Caedmon's Call stuff that I'm finding myself going back to get.
• The 2-CD version of Hollywood Rocks. I picked up the 4-CD option via a brick & mortar purchase and can identify a few tunes that are lacking on this one. But still, nice to see some of the rarities get their due.
• Over the Rhine ... a band I'm just now getting into. Which is odd since they've been around since '91. I'm starting with their 2003 release and will probably just wind my way forward. But I'd just as soon see some of their older stuff added on here.
• Honeymoon Suite ... they have the better-selling first release, but not the remainder of their first-generation CDs. Odd because I believe they were all released on the same label back in the day. Unfortunately for me, I'm in need of some improved MP3s from this CD.
• Early Joy Lynn White (and recent!). Yes, that's the same tune sung by the Dixie Chicks on the older disc. If I might make a recommendation for purchase, I'd offer "It's Amazing" from the older and "I'm Free" from the newer. A little bit of sentimental balladeering from someone with the pipes to pull it off. Of course, there's also her penultimate greatest CD, which is good to listen to from start to finish ... and then all over again.
• The Satriani catalog. Now if they can just add the Greg Kihn "King Biscuit Flower Hour" concert CD with Satriani on guitar, that'd be even better.

So what's lacking? Classic-era Pretty Boy Floyd, Ugly Kid Joe, Paul Gilbert, old-school Scatterbrain most anything from the Shrapnel catalog, Joy Lynn White's Columbia release, the greatest CD ever released by Starship (or the second, or the third!). They are also woefully lacking in Krokus and Impellitteri. There, I said it.

On the whole, I'm impressed with the extent to which they're adding to the catalog. Still some work to do, but I'm liking the pace they're adding stuff so far.