Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe & the Fish are a tangled chronology for me. I know pretty much exactly when I first started buying their records, but I don’t quite know why. I know roughly when I...
Author: cjvinyl
James Cotton — High Compression
This is another recent find (2020) from a Friday afternoon run to MaTones up in Collegeville. That’s what passes for entertainment for us in the pandemic – a very occasional trek to a record store...
The James Cotton Blues Band – The James Cotton Blues Band
Don’t let the relative roughness of this record cover fool you – this thing is in pristine condition. Verve was one of those labels that, for whatever reason, had indestructible vinyl. Every Verve record...
Elvis Costello (Various Artists) – Out Of Our Idiot
It’s an odd compilation album that officially, on the spine, lists “Various Artists” when there is, in fact, one artist in common to every song on the album: Elvis Costello. This collection was released...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Blood & Chocolate
“King of America,” which came out in February 1986, and which I only experienced in compact disc as it was one of my very first CD purchases, was a goddamned masterpiece. It only reached...
Elvis Costello — Spike
In 1989, Elvis Costello released “Spike,” one of the few times I have really anticipated an album, really wanted it the moment it came out. I tend not to get excited about new material...
Elvis Costello (The Costello Show) — King of America
Hoo boy. Back when I first got into my Elvis Costello vinyl, I talked about how I really missed him in his early hit-making years. I wasn’t hearing him on radio, wasn’t very trendy,...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Goodbye Cruel World
When I started this blog, I never envisioned that at some point I would just be posting pictures of albums with almost nothing to say about them. I mean, most of these records have...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Punch The Clock
When my roommate sent me the CD of The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions in 1985, it was the later songs that really stood out for me, especially the sad history of...
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