Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu
Another record that I bought nearly 50 years after it came out. Even after I started to buy records again 8 or 9 years ago, I had a policy against buying things on vinyl...
Category: ’70s
Jim Croce — Photographs & Memories
I first woke up to popular music just about the time I entered seventh grade, 1972-73. I had been given an AM clock radio and suddenly the whole world of AM Top 40 radio...
Cream – Heavy Cream
Okay, until I ran across this record at a vinyl market earlier this year, I don’t believe I had ever seen it. Issued in October 1972, now well more than three years since Cream’s...
Cream – Live Cream
As I noted, other than a battered copy of “Fresh Cream” and a somewhat less battered copy of “Goodbye,” my Cream experience in the vinyl age relied on what I had put onto cassette...
Country Joe McDonald — The Paris Sessions
I’ve written before that I have a huge soft spot for Country Joe and the Fish, one that I passed on to one of my kids. While hardly obscure, they’re also not hugely remembered,...
Country Joe & The Fish – Reunion
“Reunion,” released in 1977, constituted a reunion of the 1967 version of Country Joe and the Fish. They wisely didn’t just dip into the old psychedelic well, because that really wasn’t likely to go...
Country Joe & The Fish – C.J. Fish
It’s amazing how quickly the air can go out of a band. Country Joe and the Fish started as a folkish duo (with Barry Melton performing the function of The Fish) in 1965, went...
Country Joe McDonald — Hold On It’s Coming
Going through the bins at the Forever Changes pop-up, and what the hell is this? A Country Joe record I’ve never seen before? Indeed. At first I thought it was a movie soundtrack –...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – This Year’s Model
As with “My Aim Is True,” I didn’t really experience this album until years after it came out in 1978. If I wouldn’t have been ready for what I heard on “Aim,” I would...
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