Parliament – Chocolate City
I’ve already written how late to the game I was on Funkadelic – it was too much for my teenage brain when it was current, and it took me many years to think of...
Category: ’70s
Ohio Players – Angel
I’ve already written about how I couldn’t have brought any Ohio Players records home when I was in my teens (see “Fire”)– the graphic and frankly exploitive covers of sexualized women would not have...
Ohio Players – Honey
Well, if as a teenager I couldn’t have brought home the Ohio Players’ “Fire” because of its provocative cover, I sure as hell couldn’t have brought home “Honey.” In fact, I didn’t buy it...
Ohio Players – Fire
Ohio Players was probably my first real exposure to funk. In 1973, just as I was beginning to be music-crazy, they had an infectious hit single, “Funky Worm,” that was like nothing I had...
The O’Jays – The Best of The O’Jays
I was a teenager who absolutely worshipped AM Top 40 radio in the ’70s (which was the most diverse radio available where we lived), and to have been a Top 40 listener then was...
Graham Nash/David Crosby – Graham Nash/David Crosby
As I mentioned last time, I picked this 1972 release up at a garage sale in 1979, with a number of albums that completely shaped my musical tastes for decades to come. But, this...
Graham Nash – Songs for Beginners
Once again, I get to relate that I considered myself a real fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young, without having hardly any of their records for years. And when it came to the...
David Crosby/Graham Nash — Wind on the Water
I’ve written before on what a bad fan of CSN/CSNY I am – meaning that I considered myself a fan, and yet had hardly any of their records for the longest time. That bad...
Funkadelic — Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
This was the one that started it all for me – in 2019, when Forever Changes was still a weekly pop-up operating alongside a local coffee shop/bakery, I asked Shawn how to best get...
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