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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
This one’s brand new, or very close to it anyway. Never had this before, never really had any particular interest in it. Being a live performance from 1970, released as […]
November, 2016: a time when we were going places and doing new things. Only two years in our new life as Phoenixville empty nesters, and we were mostly making friends […]
Here’s how much I had back-burnered my interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young since those early days of teen fandom: I forgot that this record even existed. Surely, I […]
There’s not a lot to say about this one — it’s a three-song single (Discogs calls it an EP) that Marshall Crenshaw was selling at one of his shows here […]
This is a pretty recent acquisition, because all the kids are clamoring for reissued surf music in the 20teens. But what surf music! I previously only knew The Belairs for […]