Category: ’70s

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The Clash — The Clash

Okay, the way I’ve been doing these (alphabetical by group, but then chronological by issue date), The Clash should really have come before London Calling. But there’s a personal level to the order, too,...

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The Best of The Chicago Blues

Not the first and not the last alphabetical challenge. Not the first and not the last new entry to my collection that presents said alphabetical challenge. This is Vanguard’s incredible 2-disc “The Best of...

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The Cars — The Cars

Okay. True confessions time: I never owned this album before. Despite being a freshman in college when this was released, despite being the target audience for anything new wave (or at least I would...

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Eric Burdon Band – Eric Burdon Band

Our last disc was by “The Eric Burdon Band.” This is just “Eric Burdon Band.” Budgetary issues? Label wouldn’t spring for a “The”? Well that, can’t be it – unless they used up all...

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The Eric Burdon Band – Sun Secrets

Here’s another new old record — new to me, old to the earth. Despite being a big Animals fan and, by not much extension, a big Eric Burdon fan, I don’t believe I ever...

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History of British Blues Vol. 1

Forever Changes, our pop-up record store that is currently popping up on a monthly basis here in Phoenixville, had a blues themed event back in the beginning of March, which I knew was going...

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Karla Bonoff – Restless Nights

Karla Bonoff did a tour in support of “Restless Nights,” and, quite enamored of her debut album, the Woman Who Would Become My Wife (WWWBMW? 3WBMW? Or maybe just Lee) and I went to...

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Karla Bonoff – Karla Bonoff

I have always, always been that guy who sits through the end of the credits at movies and reads them. Now, the black and white features on the midnight movies that played on Saturday...