Ramblings about My Records
Another new one. I had never heard of Quill Records, but my history with garage rock compilations thus far has been that I have never found one I didn’t like. A lot. As I...
Well, I already had Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, so yeah, when I ran across a copy of Volume 3, I was going to grab it – and I was also going...
I have found more better blues records in the last year than I have in my entire life. It must have to do with the quality of the stores I’m getting to go to,...
Any hope of ever catching up on this blog is disappearing in the mist. I got to the end of the M section and decided to double back and cover all the records I...
Not a lot to say about this one. I picked it up maybe three years ago here at Deep Groove in Phoenixville. On Coronet Records, it’s a compilation album from 1965 — but it’s...
There’s very little of anything that could be considered country in my collection, either on vinyl or CD, and although I like an amount of Johnny Cash’s songs, there’s an amount of them I...
As I’ve said before, my weird relationship with The Byrds is: big fan, own almost none of their records. For decades, all I had was one 1967 greatest hits collection and “Fifth Dimension.” Yet,...
So, fast forward about, say, 39 years, from when I bought my first Byrds vinyl to when I bought my next. The tremendous reissue label Sundazed Records, which I first became familiar with through...
True confessions time. This 1967 collection, which I bought well-used in 1980, is the only Byrds album I ever owned, until quite recently. Did I love this record, and play it endlessly? I did....
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