John Lee Hooker – Don’t Turn Me From Your Door
Next up in our flurry of John Lee Hooker acquisitions for 2024: this Black Friday Record Store Day reissue of 1963’s “Don’t Turn Me From Your Door.” His only release on ATCO, it brings...
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John Lee Hooker – Burnin’
Okay, we’re about to go through a slew of new John Lee Hooker records. I currently have 20 albums by John Lee Hooker. Five of those, I’ve bought in the past year. And that’s...
Jimi Hendrix – Songs For Groovy Children
The latest Record Store Day, the Black Friday 2024 event, was really the first time I had a long list of wants, and this was on it. For a bunch of reasons, live recordings...
Heated Garage – Toasty Treasures from Minnesota’s Key Bank Studio
Some garage rock compilations are more special than others. In a sense, garage rock records are the definition of limited edition – but this one is actually numbered! This was a Record Store Day pickup...
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...
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...
Sue Foley – The Ice Queen
Immediately after getting back on the Sue Foley bandwagon with Pinky’s Blues in 2023, I picked up “The Ice Queen,” a rather acclaimed release from 2018. I mean, she’s just so good. It’s an...
Sue Foley – Pinky’s Blues
So way back in the day, there was a record/CD store called Records N Such in Stuyvesant Plaza – a local chain that had quite an eclectic selection, an entire separate classical listening room,...
Melanie — Live At Drury Lane
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 certain day or completely...
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