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...
Category: ’70s
The Blues Brothers – Briefcase Full of Blues
If you’re any younger than I am, this may be hard to understand — but there was a time when going to college kinda meant living a life apart from television culture. Cable in...
Blotto – Hello! My Name is Blotto. What’s Yours?
If you’re from the Albany area — and particularly if you’re from the Albany area in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s — you know Blotto. Starting from the odd beginning of a comedy...
Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond, Dr. John — Triumvirate
I found this last summer, when Forever Changes was still in pop-up mode, feeding my need once a month instead of all the time (not complaining – having a great record store where I...
Blondie – Eat To The Beat
I guess I’ve always thought of this as a seriously lesser Blondie album. Released in October 1979, its first single was “Dreaming,” one of the absolute best Blondie songs and one of my favorite...
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Of course, this was the breakout album for Blondie, the one that made them international superstars, the one that made millions of people explain “Debbie Harry isn’t Blondie, that’s the name of the band.”...
Blondie – Plastic Letters
So, as I said last time, I picked up both “Blondie” and “Plastic Letters” after I’d already learned every note of “Parallel Lines.” In fact, “Plastic Letters,” which like their debut was produced by...
Rory Block — Intoxication
I haven’t had the chance to write about Rory Block before, even though she takes up an amount of space in my CD collection. In the early ’90s we had a strong Rory Block...
Blondie – Blondie
I came a tiny bit late to the Blondie party — or rather, I came to it exactly the same time almost everybody else did, with 1978’s Parallel Lines. I believe that I really...
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