The Blues Brothers – Briefcase Full of Blues
If you’re any younger than I am, this may be hard to understand — but there was a time when going to college kinda meant living a life apart from television culture. Cable in...
Author: cjvinyl
Blotto – Hello! My Name is Blotto. What’s Yours? (2)
So, I’m at our local twice-a-year vintage festival, “A Whole Lot of Lulu,” possibly spring of last year. Sometimes we call it Lulufest, because the store that sponsors it is also called “A Whole...
Blotto – Combo Akimbo
1982’s Combo Akimbo was Blotto’s Big Chance — their opportunity to be recognized on a national scale, to be the Weird Al of their day (which, of course, was exactly the same day). That...
Blotto – Across and Down
Blotto’s next release was another EP, 1980’s “Across and Down,” which had the clever conceit of an album cover that was a real crossword puzzle. They’d already lost Blanche by this time, so no...
Blotto – Hello! My Name is Blotto. What’s Yours?
If you’re from the Albany area — and particularly if you’re from the Albany area in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s — you know Blotto. Starting from the odd beginning of a comedy...
Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond, Dr. John — Triumvirate
I found this last summer, when Forever Changes was still in pop-up mode, feeding my need once a month instead of all the time (not complaining – having a great record store where I...
Mike Bloomfield – It’s Not Killing Me
There are some classic new blues (if that phrase makes any sense – I’m talking about the interpreters of the ’60s and ’70s) that I have come to very late. Despite my love for...
Blondie – Autoamerican
Okay, I just listened to this for this project. Somebody owes me. With this 1980 release, the band got experimental, branched out, tried new things. That’s fine, and I strongly encourage it. But that...
Blondie – Eat To The Beat
I guess I’ve always thought of this as a seriously lesser Blondie album. Released in October 1979, its first single was “Dreaming,” one of the absolute best Blondie songs and one of my favorite...
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