Ramblings about My Records
Okay, let’s start with this – before I saw this record in my favorite record store, Forever Changes here in Phoenixville, PA, I don’t believe I’d ever heard of Mojo Buford. That didn’t really...
This one’s an oddity in my collection – not by any means for the artist or the genre, but for the way I came by it. Nearly everything I’ve collected has either been from...
Once I started in on Mayall, just a few decades after first learning about him, I was all in. Shortly after picking up Moving On, I found this copy of Jazz Blues Fusion in...
I’m not sure how, in my early years of collecting, I formed an opinion of John Mayall and his bands without actually ever hearing them – but I did. And in those days, when...
On the previous album, “The Turning Point,” John Mayall stripped his band down to four players, and no drummer. For this 1971 album, Mayall took it a step further, just a trio with Larry...
This is a brand new addition to my collection, just within the past few weeks – a gift from my record-store owning friend for some minor favors I did him. While I don’t have any...
Sometime in the around 1991, I picked up a CD on Alligator, “Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 4.” Most likely I got it at the old Records ‘n’ Such in Stuyvesant Plaza, which had a...
As I’ve said before, I’m pretty allergic to most concept albums. And I was slow to get into the deep catalog of The Kinks, to listen to some of the full albums that really...
It may just be that, back when I was collecting records in the ’70s and ’80s, I really wasn’t looking for any Carole King. Since Tapestry was ubiquitous and its music inescapable, and I...
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