Mississippi Fred McDowell — I Do Not Play No Rock ‘n’ Roll
Way back when, The Blues Brothers declared that in the future blues records would only exist in the classical music section of your public library. It seems like they weren’t […]
Way back when, The Blues Brothers declared that in the future blues records would only exist in the classical music section of your public library. It seems like they weren’t […]
Honestly, I don’t get too excited about Record Store Day – I’m not a fan of created scarcity and the commercial push to go to a certain place on a […]
Just another Melanie record, just another mid-pandemic purchase. 1976’s “Photograph” just hits differently than the other Melanie records. It starts with as close to a rocker as she’s gonna get, […]
This was the one that started it, my first Melanie record. I bought it at some point in 2019, running across it in the bins somewhere, and being in both […]
As I’ve already said, my experience with Melanie, other than the few hits she had on the radio in the ’70s, is entirely within the context of the pandemic, having […]
Another of my numerous Melanie acquisitions from the MaTones $5 bins during the depths of the pandemic. By that point in 2020, afraid to go anywhere and seeing worse times […]
Perhaps the most bargain-bin of my Melanie records, this one was only $3 (in 2020 dollars, mind you!), but even though the cover’s edges are a bit rough, it looks […]
Looking back at my abandonment of the Woodstock Two album, which I talked about last time, I really wondered why the Melanie tracks that were on that collection hadn’t resonated […]
In 1977, when “Bat Out of Hell” was released, I was 16, and this album was a goddamn cultural phenomenon. It’s surprising now to find that neither the album nor […]
This 1974 release from John Mayall (without the band name) was my first foray into Mayall, after years of simply ignoring the band. While considered legendary, given their lack of […]