Country Joe & the Fish — I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
My kid can tell this story better than I can, but my short version of it is: they were taking AP US History. In the course of covering the Vietnam War, their teacher played...
Category: ’60s
Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe & the Fish are a tangled chronology for me. I know pretty much exactly when I first started buying their records, but I don’t quite know why. I know roughly when I...
The James Cotton Blues Band – The James Cotton Blues Band
Don’t let the relative roughness of this record cover fool you – this thing is in pristine condition. Verve was one of those labels that, for whatever reason, had indestructible vinyl. Every Verve record...
Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker!
Despite the fact that this album came out in 1969, and despite the fact that I got into music just a little after Joe Cocker’s heyday, and right about at his commercial peak, I...
Sam Cooke — Mr. Soul
Another acquisition from the recent Forever Changes pop-up here in Phoenixville (currently the first Saturday of the month at Steel City Coffeehouse). Despite the fact that I have any number of Sam Cooke songs...
The Dave Clark Five — Try Too Hard
So I’ve been dumping on the DC5 a little bit, despite owning quite a number of their records. Part of that is just time . . . over the decades, I’ve become less enamored...
The Dave Clark Five — Having a Wild Weekend
It’s 1965, and you’re a British Invasion band that has ridden the wave across the pond and conquered America with the “(Insert English Region Name Here) Sound.” Just like The Beatles. So naturally, you’re...
The Dave Clark Five — American Tour
You have to be careful with ’60s records that try to fool you. You might think that an album titled “American Tour” would be a live album. No. Not in any way. There isn’t...
The Dave Clark Five – The Dave Clark Five Return!
I established last time that I’m really not in a Dave Clark Five headspace right now, and this album, their second American release, isn’t really helping anything. It starts out solid, with the bomping...
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