The Butterfield Blues Band – East-West
I’ve known about Sundazed Records, the reissue label inexplicably based in the obscure Hudson Valley town of Coxsackie, for a very long time, ever since I encountered a couple of fine surf music collections...
Category: ’60s
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band — The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
It’s been a while now since I wrote about the Butterfield Blues Band – way back at the start of 2020, when I wrote about “East-West,” which I had just gotten from Sundazed. Absolutely...
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again
As I said last time, Buffalo Springfield was an almost inexcusable oversight in my collection until very recently. I picked up digital versions of their first two albums along about four years ago, and...
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield
You know that thing where you’ve known and liked songs by a band for, oh, say, 50 years, and where some members of that band went on to form some of your other favorite...
James Brown — James Brown at the Apollo Vol. 1
I’ll have to admit to a shocking lack of James Brown in my life until the late ‘80s. I mean, I knew he existed, and I must have known some of the songs, even...
James Brown — Say It Live and Loud
I never had any idea this record existed until two weeks ago when I found it at Forever Changes. It was a beautiful evening, the weather so cooperative that on the first of May...
Boyce & Hart — It’s All Happening On The Inside
Boyce & Hart’s third album came out in 1969 (it was actually released in Canada in 1968), very soon after their second record. It’s not quite a concept album, but it’s definitely thematic, and...
Boyce & Hart — I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite?
If Test Patterns was a bit of a disappointment coming from two of the biggest hitmakers of their day, “I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite?” more than made up for it. The title track,...
Boyce & Hart – Test Patterns
If you don’t recognize the names Boyce & Hart — well, then you don’t recognize a couple of ‘60s songwriting deities. If you know The Monkees, then you know Boyce & Hart. Tommy Boyce...
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