Lightnin’ Hopkins — Mojo Hand
Incredibly, I only had one Lightnin’ Hopkins album prior to this, a CD titled “The Legacy of the Blues vol. 12,” that I bought back around 1990 or so at the lamented Records ‘n’...
Category: ’60s
The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace in Toronto 1969
It’s a shame that The Beatles, a band that became famous, initially, for their amazing live energy, left that legacy behind midway through their career and never got to properly capture a good live...
John Lennon / Yoko Ono — Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins
Having grown up on ’70s hit radio, for several years I was more familiar with the Beatles’ solo works than with actual Beatles music. John, Paul, George, even Ringo were all having at least...
The Left Banke — The Left Banke Too
As iconic as their first album was, The Left Banke pretty much split up before “Walk Away Renee” was even a hit, coming back together and then breaking up again. Various iterations of the...
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...
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...
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