On the Playlist 12JUL2018…

A bit late posting this one as I didn't listen to this till later in the day and forgot to post it. This jazz singer from Canada (Yes, I checked and confirmed that) had one song that caught my attention in a very high end audio store. Holly Cole Trio and their hit album Don't Smoke In Bed and in particular "I Can See Clearly Now". One Saturday afternoon shortly after moving to California I was in a very high-end audio store. I was there to talk about running ethernet network wiring in the house as they did that as well and got to talking with the salesman. While we were chatting he showed me one of their rooms that over $500,000 of audio equipment in it in just one system. I am glad it was that expensive because if it had been any reasonable price I would have bought it right then and there. He put on "I Can See Clearly Now" and the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I had goosebumps. The sound was amazing!!!! SO amazing that it sounded like they were right there in that room. I was impressed to say the least. I only listened to that track and then we moved back to his office to finish the conversation. I came home and immediately set about determining if that track was available in some kind of crazy hi-resolution release but could only find it available in CD. In fact, I actually had that CD in my collection. So, I put it on to play on my system and turned the volume up. When I turned it up to a certain volume (much louder than the usual background level I listen to music while I work) I got that same feeling although maybe not quite as real but the same feeling nonetheless. I played some of the other tracks on this album and nothing. It was only this track that when cranked up sounded amazing. I have been to a couple more audio stores and audio shows since then and this is my go to track. Not every system gives me the goosbumps but the good ones do. So, it wasn't so much the system as the recording and this one track in particular. Thank goodness as I really didn't want to spend that kind of money on an audio system but I might have if it did that to all the music it played because it was magical. My family hates when I play this song.

Holly Cole Trio - Don't Smoke In Bed - “I Can See Clearly Now”