RSD 2024 Black Friday
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
Category: Catchup
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Alone & Acoustic
This album has never been far from my heart or my player since it came out in 1991. It was early on in my serious blues dive of the ’90s that I found this...
Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues: 1958-1963 Recordings
This here is some early Buddy Guy. It’s weird, because I still kinda think of Buddy Guy as one of the young men of the blues, the second generation of greats anyway, and yet...
Nikki Giovanni – The Way I Feel
I already wrote about my early experience with Nikki Giovanni, and my wife’s complete fascination with her, back in 2020. So here’s another incredible re-release by Modern Harmonic of a work from 1975. Could...
Garage Punk Unknowns Volume Four
Found this on a return trip to Syracuse in May, when we got caught in a downpour (it being Syracuse) and stopped in to The Sound Garden in Armory Square to get out of...
The Fugs – Greatest Hits Volume 1 Proto Punk
I messed up the alphabetization again – and that by doing that, I ended learning something. In his book on George Clinton, mentioned last time I posted, Kris Needs finds some common ground between...
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
As noted in the last few entries, I’ve actually added to my completely unnecessary workload on this blog by writing about records I’d already written about. My flawless system of leaving things on the...
Funkadelic – Free Your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow
I was thinking about pop culture and decades a bit last night. It seems odd to me now that wherever I go in public – grocery stores, gas stations, … well, those are the...
Funkadelic – Funkadelic
My loving wife gave me a great biography for my birthday – “George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire,” by Kris Needs. Great because it answers the question Shawn (owner of...
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