Category: Blues

Ray Charles In Person 0

Ray Charles – In Person

This is one I picked up just a couple of years ago, at Deep Groove Records here in Phoenixville. I’ll be honest — given naming conventions of the ’50s and ’60s, I didn’t necessarily...

Yes Indeed! cover 0

Ray Charles – Yes Indeed!

This was another Ray album I only picked up recently. Man, these old Atlantic pressings sound sweet, even . . . holy cow, 60 years later. It was only his third studio album, and...

Keep On Moving Front Cover 0

The Butterfield Blues Band — Keep On Moving

This was actually my first Paul Butterfield album, picked up just a year ago as part of my late-blooming Butterfield/Bloomfield/Kooper fascination. This 1969 release is more of the kind of horn-based soul that filled...

In My Own Dream front cover – very much of its time 3

The Butterfield Blues Band — In My Own Dream

I found this just two weeks ago, on my first trip ever to Sound House Records, a relatively new record store in the old home district of Troy, NY that I had tried but...

East-West cover with Sundazed promo stickers 0

The Butterfield Blues Band – East-West

I’ve known about Sundazed Records, the reissue label inexplicably based in the obscure Hudson Valley town of Coxsackie, for a very long time, ever since I encountered a couple of fine surf music collections...

Eric Burdon Band front cover 0

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...

Sun Secrets front cover 0

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...