The Left Banke — Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina
This is truly one of the most important albums in my life. I’m sure I picked it up in those early days of my record-collecting, when any oldie was a good oldie (almost), and...
Category: ’60s
Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper — The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper
Having discovered and loved Super Session, I continued to acquire any number of albums I had previously ignored that featured, in some way or other, Mike Bloomfield or Al Kooper. I bought “Grape Jam,”...
Bloomfield Kooper Stills — Super Session
I knew nothing about this album until about four years ago, when my resurgent interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young led me to greatly expand my appreciation for Stephen Stills, coincidentally at a...
The Kinks — Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One
There is, of course, one more Kinks album that I have just procured from Forever Changes, one that I embarrassingly didn’t own until last month. Given all that has gone on in that month,...
The Kinks — The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
As I’ve been saying, part of my failure to fully appreciate The Kinks in my 20s was an allergy to concept albums generally. Because they tended to involve a lot of songs that only...
The Kinks — The Live Kinks
I’ve been so spoiled by a slew of recent live albums, with full, restored sound from well-recorded concerts of the ’60s – particularly those recorded at the Fillmore — that I started to wonder...
The Kinks — Face to Face
So here’s where we move into the 2020s with me making up for lost time on bands that I love, would consider myself a deeply devoted fan of, and yet have only a limited...
The Kinks — The Kinks Greatest Hits!
For the longest time, this 1966 greatest hits collection comprised my entire early Kinks, other than a live album we’ll talk about next and an odd Portuguese compilation. It seems that I was not...
Kinks – Kinks
Sometimes things linger so long on my “new acquisitions” shelf that I forget that I’ve already written about them. So, no, I didn’t accidentally buy two copies of this reissue. I just wrote about...
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