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...
Category: ’60s
Jackie DeShannon — Put A Little Love In Your Heart
I’ve always had a weak spot for Jackie DeShannon. Her version of Bacharach/David’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love” is one of the earliest songs I really have a memory of. While it...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – So Far
This is the album that was my actual introduction to CSNY. In the ’70s, this album was ubiquitous, required of any teenager with the slightest hippie/folkie/singer-songwriter tendencies — and most of my friends were...
Crosby, Stills & Nash — Crosby, Stills & Nash
Sometimes musical interests can be tidal, with ebbs and flows. It’s possible to be super into something for a while, maybe even a long while, have that interest recede, and then someday to have...
Cream – Heavy Cream
Okay, until I ran across this record at a vinyl market earlier this year, I don’t believe I had ever seen it. Issued in October 1972, now well more than three years since Cream’s...
Cream – Live Cream
As I noted, other than a battered copy of “Fresh Cream” and a somewhat less battered copy of “Goodbye,” my Cream experience in the vinyl age relied on what I had put onto cassette...
Cream — The Goodbye Tour — Live At The Forum
The dangers of having a friend who owns a record store, particularly a record store that is in walking distance, and is in fact between my house and nearly everywhere else I go in...
Cream — Goodbye
So it turns out that the Cream album I’ve had the longest is their last one, the live and studio mix that came out after their breakup. I’d say I picked up my first...
Cream — Wheels of Fire
Astute readers may begin to wonder exactly what Cream albums I did have — because here’s another one, from 1968, that I only recently acquired. Never had it before, not even digitally, until I...
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