The Best of The Chicago Blues
Not the first and not the last alphabetical challenge. Not the first and not the last new entry to my collection that presents said alphabetical challenge. This is Vanguard’s incredible 2-disc “The Best of...
Author: cjvinyl
The Chesterfield Kings — Night of the Living Eyes
I’m at a serious disadvantage with this one, as I picked it up on February 8 of this very same year and haven’t really had a chance to form much of an opinion. Not...
The Chesterfield Kings — Stop!
The Chesterfield Kings were a post-punk garage rock band from not-so-far-away Rochester, NY. (Not so far away when we lived in Syracuse, I mean). I don’t think we ever got to see them, but...
Ray Charles — Seven Spanish Angels
This had to have come pretty late in my LP collecting. It certainly looks like I bought it new, but given that it came out in 1989, which was just about the end of...
Ray Charles — The Real Ray Charles
This was one of the first records I bought when I started getting vinyl fever again. In the years before moving here, I had somewhat thinned my vinyl collection, ditching a bunch of stuff...
Ray Charles — The Sensational Ray Charles
Not a lot to say about this one. I picked it up maybe three years ago here at Deep Groove in Phoenixville. On Coronet Records, it’s a compilation album from 1965 — but it’s...
Ray Charles – In Person
This is one I picked up just a couple of years ago, at Deep Groove Records here in Phoenixville. I’ll be honest — given naming conventions of the ’50s and ’60s, I didn’t necessarily...
Ray Charles – Yes Indeed!
This was another Ray album I only picked up recently. Man, these old Atlantic pressings sound sweet, even . . . holy cow, 60 years later. It was only his third studio album, and...
Ray Charles – Ray Charles at Newport 1958
Ray Charles. What can you say about Ray Charles that hasn’t already been said? He occupied an interesting space as I was growing up – acknowledged as a genius, ubiquitous on the “oldies” stations,...
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