Dierks Bentley feels at "home" in concert
His was not your typical Dierks Bentley concert in most every way except one, and that was an important "one."First off, Bentley was playing a small club holding 300 people and selling out super fast at only $10 a pop (this was a WKLB radio CD release show after all with all money going to charity).
Second, Bentley only was accompanied by a fiddle player and fellow acoustic guitarist, not his regular band.
And finally at 50 minutes this was woefully short Bentley gig, but that was clear this was going to be the case this night, so no complaints there.
As for the way the show was the same as other Bentley shows - that would be the quality of the music, meaning super high.
Bentley hit Boston a few nights after playing the Ryman in support of his seventh CD, "Home," coming out Tuesday. So, of course, Bentley pumped the new disc along with playing a few hits.
Bentley mixed
Why we need to save the CD players!
You can have my compact disc player when you pry it out of my car's cold, dead center console.
There has been a recent stretch of news about the pending demise of the CD player in vehicles. The Consumer Electronics Show was all about streaming audio and Internet radio. And General Motors has announced the 2013 Chevrolet Sonic RS will not offer a CD player.
This fills me with fear.
I am not a Luddite. I love driving cars with MP3 hookups so I can plug in my iPod and listen to my own tunes. Even more, I love cars with Pandora, so I can have my own personal disc jockey in the car.
But therein lies a problem.
Streaming audio is low-fi. The fidelity of satellite radio is gruesome. The default setting for iPod downloads is grainy. You get to hear the music you want, but your ears don't get the proper reproduction.
Conversely, CD audio provides the highest fidelity for listening to music available to the general public.
That makes keeping CD players in place a different argument from when automakers began phasing out in-dash cassette players -- and before that eight-track players. Heck, there are black-and-white photos of cars that actually had turntables in the dashboard.
by Matthew on May 27, 2010 Check out this little CD player/FM Radio. It's shaped like the green aliens from Toy Story and features a CD player and radio.
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