Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hollywood Bowl, August 19, 1967
Eventually I figured out that what I want from a Jimi Hendrix record is for it to be live. I’ve already written about “Are You Experienced?” and how I prefer “Axis: Bold As Love,”...
Category: ’60s
Heated Garage – Toasty Treasures from Minnesota’s Key Bank Studio
Some garage rock compilations are more special than others. In a sense, garage rock records are the definition of limited edition – but this one is actually numbered! This was a Record Store Day pickup...
RSD 2024 Black Friday
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
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...
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 by doing that, I ended up 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...
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