Category: Blues

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James Cotton — High Compression

This is another recent find (2020) from a Friday afternoon run to MaTones up in Collegeville. That’s what passes for entertainment for us in the pandemic – a very occasional trek to a record store...

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Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 3

Well, I already had Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, so yeah, when I ran across a copy of Volume 3, I was going to grab it – and I was also going...

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Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 2

I have found more better blues records in the last year than I have in my entire life. It must have to do with the quality of the stores I’m getting to go to,...

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Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 1

Any hope of ever catching up on this blog is disappearing in the mist. I got to the end of the M section and decided to double back and cover all the records I...

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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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Ray Charles — The Real Ray Charles

This was one of the first records I bought when I started getting vinyl fever again. In the years before moving here, I had somewhat thinned my vinyl collection, ditching a bunch of stuff...

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Ray Charles — The Sensational Ray Charles

Not a lot to say about this one. I picked it up maybe three years ago here at Deep Groove in Phoenixville. On Coronet Records, it’s a compilation album from 1965 — but it’s...