Various Artists – Eccentric Northern Soul
Here in the US, we were deprived of the phenomenon known as Northern Soul. It wasn’t even a phrase I was familiar with until I started reading about Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” as being...
Category: ’60s
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation — Retaliation
I was so excited by the little sampling of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation I heard on the Sire “History of the British Blues, Vol. 1” collection that at the same time as I ordered...
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation — Doctor Dunbar’s Prescription
One of the revelations of the great Sire collection “History of British Blues (Volume One)” was several tracks by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. I knew the name of one of the most famous drummers...
Donovan — Donovan’s Greatest Hits
As an aficionado of pretty much everything from the hippy dippy era, I was of course obliged at some point to get at least slightly into Donovan. It was mandatory. I remember my roommate...
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...
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...
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