Lake Street Dive / Fun Machine
And so we come to the portion of this project that will go just about like the Funkadelic portion did – where I have a whole bunch of new (to me) records in my...
Category: ’10s
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul of a Woman
As I mentioned last time, we just discovered Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings. Like, last month. We had heard of them a few years back, and there was much talk when Sharon Jones died...
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul Time!
The ‘J’ section of my collection is closing fast with a series of recent records, new to me. Until I got brought into a little local group of music lovers, I had never heard...
John & Brittany — Stories To Be Told
One of the great pleasures of moving to our little town has been getting to know a number of local musicians, some of whom have absolutely legendary Philly music scene pedigrees. There’s an incredible...
The Jellybricks — Some Kind of Lucky
It must be admitted: I spent a couple of decades in a musical desert. After our early years of passionately following some local bands and going out to see them every chance we got,...
Buddy Guy – The Blues Is Alive and Well
I first started becoming aware of Buddy Guy around 1990. The gamble I had taken on going to grad school was paying off, and things were looking good. We had just moved to Albany,...
Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
I bought the follow-up to Florence + the Machine’s debut pretty much as soon as it came out in 2011, and listened to it a lot back then. The songs are excellent, and I...
The Fleshtones — Budget Buster
“Traditionally, all an ‘LP’ really needs is one track by a much more popular band (preferably English), say The Dave Clark 5, to attract the young, undiscriminating buyer. The savvy producer will just ‘pad’...
Fleetwood Mac — The Alternate Fleetwood Mac
There’s not much I can say about this that I didn’t already say about the original album. This is a set of alternate versions and takes from the 1975 album that were released previously...
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