Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues
I’ve already gushed about how amazing Buddy Guy was, and what my discovery of his music meant to me. There was the first time I saw Buddy Guy, playing a major blues festival headlined...
Category: ’50s
Ella Fitzgerald — Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter
I don’t have a lot to say about this one, primarily because we picked it out of the Forever Changes dollar bin last year entirely for the cover. I’m not a jazz guy, not...
Willie Dixon — The Chess Box
When I started this project, I absolutely knew that I was going to miss some of the box sets – they’re off on another shelf, and easily forgotten. So yes, when I first went through...
Eddie Cochran – On The Air
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,...
Eddie Cochran – C’mon Everybody
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)....
Eddie Cochran — 20th Anniversary Album
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 —...
Eddie Cochran – The Eddie Cochran Legend
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...
Eddie Cochran – The Eddie Cochran Singles Album
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...
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