John Hammond — Source Point
John Hammond, man. I wrote just a few entries back about how we discovered John Hammond, at a day long blues festival at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in 1990. I don’t even know if...
Category: ’70s
The Guess Who – Road Food
Growing up when I grew up, of course I was exposed to The Guess Who. You didn’t get through the ’70s without knowing Guess Who songs, and probably even liking them. The Canadian band...
The Buddy Odor Stop — Buddy Odor Is A Gas!
I have no idea how I found this or knew that the kinda distasteful name of “Buddy Odor” was in fact Hans Vandenburg, aka Jan Van De Fruits, the guy behind Gruppo Sportivo. This...
Gruppo Sportivo — Mistakes
I have some duplicates in my collection, usually either because my wife also had a copy pre-marriage, or because I found another copy of something in better shape than my original. But in this...
Gruppo Sportivo — Rare Tracks
Gruppo Sportivo released a pair of singles in 1976 and ’77, prior to the album “10 Mistakes” being released. After that and their second album came out, those singles and a bonus track were...
Gruppo Sportivo — 10 Mistakes
I should really hold my Gruppo Sportivo discovery story for “Mistakes,” a similarly titled album that was released with some different songs two years after this one. But the albums are similar, so perhaps...
Graham Central Station — Mirror
I don’t think I knew hardly a thing about Larry Graham until I tripped on a video a couple of years ago where this key former member of Sly and the Family Stone explained...
Nikki Giovanni – Truth Is On Its Way
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, at what we then thought was the dawn of civil rights, the beginning of a new era in race relations that would eventually make those problems...
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – San Antonio Ballbuster
Moving into the G section – even though this weekend I bought 14 new records with hardly any regard for where they fell in the alphabet! I’ll get to the earlier entries when I...
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