Ramblings about My Records
For the longest time, there has been a Badfinger-sized hole in my record collection. Back when we were initially collecting records, in the early ’80s, my roommate Danny had several Badfinger albums, including this...
The last of the Back From The Grave series I was able to buy back in the ’80s was Volume Five. Volumes Three, Four and Five all came out in 1984, though I think...
After picking up my first Back From The Grave, which happened to be Volume Four, I was lucky enough to find two more. Volume Three was next, and it’s no less insane and great...
I lived long enough to go from thinking that Burt Bacharach’s songs were the squarest songs in the world – probably solely because they were appreciated by the older generation – to thinking they...
So, it’s 1984. I’ve moved from my early obsession with the British Invasion to new wave and a smattering of oddities. But it would be fair to say that musically, I was bored. Radio...
I continue to be alphabetically challenged on a project that is alphabetically centered. It really makes me wonder what I’m up to here. When I go to the end of the P’s, I decided...
A long time ago now, when I first started this project to look at my entire vinyl collection in alphabetical order, I raved about Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974 Volume 6, which covered the...
One more Atlantic Records compilation. This one was released in 1985, ahead of the last two that I talked about, so I guess I need to reorder my albums on the shelf. Instead of...
“Atlantic Blues: Vocalists,” like the previous album (“Atlantic Blues: Piano”), came out in 1986. It is every bit as good as the piano collection — a little less broad in range, but with significantly...
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