Crosby, Stills & Nash — Crosby, Stills & Nash
Sometimes musical interests can be tidal, with ebbs and flows. It’s possible to be super into something for a while, maybe even a long while, have that interest recede, and then someday to have...
Author: cjvinyl
Jim Croce — Photographs & Memories
I first woke up to popular music just about the time I entered seventh grade, 1972-73. I had been given an AM clock radio and suddenly the whole world of AM Top 40 radio...
Marshall Crenshaw — Stranger and Stranger
There’s not a lot to say about this one — it’s a three-song single (Discogs calls it an EP) that Marshall Crenshaw was selling at one of his shows here at Steel City Coffeehouse....
Marshall Crenshaw – Downtown
This one’s brand spanking new. To me, that is. The album itself came out in 1985, and despite another change in production and direction, it didn’t do very much. If I even noticed that...
Marshall Crenshaw — Field Day
Last time, I simply gushed about my love for Marshall Crenshaw. That first album of his was one of the absolutely definitive albums of my final college year, a ray of new, happy music...
Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw
Wow. What is there to say about this album? In 1982, things were happening, musically. There was change, opportunity, an explosion of creativity. “New” sounds were breaking in everywhere, although many of them were...
The Creeps — Enjoy The Creeps
This was actually the first record by the Creeps, from 1986. After discovering “Now Dig This!” back in February, I knew I had seen another Creeps record in that magical bin of ’80s wonders...
The Creeps — Now Dig This!
A rare case where I’m going to take a pair of records out of chronological order because this is the one that first caught my eye and turned me on to the wonderful oddness...
Cream – Heavy Cream
Okay, until I ran across this record at a vinyl market earlier this year, I don’t believe I had ever seen it. Issued in October 1972, now well more than three years since Cream’s...
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