Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Last time I alluded to a period around 2008 or so when I was stuck in a very tough situation, feeling nostalgic for the 70s, and open to some new experiences — somehow that...
Ramblings about My Records
Last time I alluded to a period around 2008 or so when I was stuck in a very tough situation, feeling nostalgic for the 70s, and open to some new experiences — somehow that...
Despite the fact that this album came out in 1969, and despite the fact that I got into music just a little after Joe Cocker’s heyday, and right about at his commercial peak, I...
This record came out in 1987. As I said earlier, my favorite of the eight sides in the Eddie Cochran 20th Anniversary Album box set was the last side — as Discogs puts it,...
This collection of Eddie Cochran songs came from The Netherlands. Its release date is unclear but probably 1979. I bought it at Syracuse’s Desertshore Records for $4 (and never took the price tag off)....
It’s taken me pretty much a week to crank out five paragraphs about one of the most important record sets of my life. Maybe that’s a sign of the times we’re living in —...
This Charly Records compilation came out in 1979, and I probably picked it up before the summer of 1981. That miserable summer of 1981 that I wrote about? This was one of the handful...
Boy, there have been a very select number of people who have had an outsized impact on my musical education and tastes. Some have been lifelong friends. One, I knew for a very brief...
Another acquisition from the recent Forever Changes pop-up here in Phoenixville (currently the first Saturday of the month at Steel City Coffeehouse). Despite the fact that I have any number of Sam Cooke songs...
People, I am here to admit that, in 1986, I did not have the funk. I mean, I remembered ‘70s funk fairly fondly — there wasn’t anybody who wasn’t at least a little familiar...
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