Love — Love
Love is one of those bands that I should have been into decades earlier. This release from 1966 fits squarely with the other garage rock psychedelia that I was snapping up in the early...
Category: ’60s
Claudine Longet — Colours
I bought this in the dollar bin at Forever Changes, same as “Claudine,” earlier this year. It’s from 1968, a somewhat better album than the other, including some very nice versions of “Scarborough Fair,”...
Claudine Longet — Claudine
Earlier this year, when things were opening up again and Forever Changes was getting back to normal (¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoji) with a monthly pop-up at Steel City Coffeehouse here in Phoenixville, I was digging through...
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’...
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,”...
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