Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues: 1958-1963 Recordings
This here is some early Buddy Guy. It’s weird, because I still kinda think of Buddy Guy as one of the young men of the blues, the second generation of greats anyway, and yet...
Category: ’60s
Garage Punk Unknowns Volume Four
Found this on a return trip to Syracuse in May, when we got caught in a downpour (it being Syracuse) and stopped in to The Sound Garden in Armory Square to get out of...
The Fugs – Greatest Hits Volume 1 Proto Punk
I messed up the alphabetization again – and that by doing that, I ended learning something. In his book on George Clinton, mentioned last time I posted, Kris Needs finds some common ground between...
Country Joe McDonald – Paris Sessions
When the COVID lockdowns finally ended and vaccines made travel less risky, I was anxious to get back to Troy, NY. Yes, I desperately wanted to see my child, whom I hadn’t seen since...
Various Artists – Psyché France Vol. 8
I admit I usually struggle to find a lot to get excited about with Record Store Day releases – sometimes there are three or four things I want, maybe one that I desperately want,...
Gene Pitney – 20 Greatest Hits
Back in the days when I was working in a printing plant, one of the worst things about the job was the radio. In a job that was mostly manual work, there was always...
Roy Orbison – The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison
Well, alphabetically, we moved from one very personally connected album to another with at least a little bit of a personal connection. I don’t think it’s this way anymore, not in an age when...
Never On Sunday – Original Movie Soundtrack
This is one of those things that has always been around in my life, and yet I had never actually seen the movie. Throughout my youth, the song “Never On Sunday” was ubiquitous –...
The Music Machine — (Turn On) The Music Machine
The Music Machine appeared in my collection long before I bought this record, represented twice by “Talk Talk.” The first time was on the legendary Nuggets anthology, a garage rock collection that I couldn’t...
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