Various Artists – Eccentric Deep Soul
It’s funny that we commonly look down on collections, compared to works by single artists, and it’s true that they’re often a mess. K-Tel collections are just anything they could get a license to...
Category: ’70s
Various Artists – Eccentric Northern Soul
Here in the US, we were deprived of the phenomenon known as Northern Soul. It wasn’t even a phrase I was familiar with until I started reading about Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” as being...
Earth, Wind & Fire — Spirit
As I said last time, I just got these Earth, Wind & Fire records at the close of 2019. We had had what we thought then was a fairly rough year. Well, it still...
Earth, Wind & Fire — Gratitude
I wrote last summer about how there was no Earth, Wind & Fire in my life, and then suddenly there was. At the time these records came out, I was a Top 40 radio...
Earth, Wind & Fire — Open Our Eyes
We went through a thing last fall where, because of some family obligations that fall on the sandwich generation, my wife was away from home for weeks. When she got back home, almost the...
Willie Dixon – Catalyst
What can I possibly say about Willie Dixon, one of the greatest blues writers and performers of all time? Other artists made such great performances of his songs that a 1990 Chess box set...
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends — On Tour with Eric Clapton
In my early years, I paid no attention to Delaney & Bonnie — they weren’t really a singles act in the days when Top 40 radio had all my attention; in my college years,...
Betty Davis – Betty Davis
Sorta like Fanny, Betty Davis is one of those legendary artists I had never heard of. A couple of years back, there was suddenly attention to her, with a 2017 documentary, “Betty: They Say...
Betty Davis — Nasty Gal
This is the last of Betty Davis’s three original albums, released in 1975, and the last of the three that I’ve just acquired. Again . . . this is revelatory funk. Why has this...
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