k.d. lang — Shadowland
I’m not sure when I would have heard of k.d. lang were it not for a Warner Records sampler CD series, the “Just Say Yes” series. The first one came out in November 1987,...
Category: Country
Cowboy Junkies – Sharon
As someone who loves, loves, loves the early Cowboy Junkies albums, I have to admit there came a point at which I just fell off. That usually happens – I get to a point...
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
When I was talking about Elvis Costello, I noted that because of when I got into him, my relationship with his music was much more through CDs (and, later, digital) than through vinyl. And...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Almost Blue
“Almost Blue” came out in 1981, just 10 months after “Trust,” not an unusual pace at the time but still hard to imagine. In order to meet that kind of pace, an artist may...
Ray Charles — Seven Spanish Angels
This had to have come pretty late in my LP collecting. It certainly looks like I bought it new, but given that it came out in 1989, which was just about the end of...
Johnny Cash — Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom
There’s very little of anything that could be considered country in my collection, either on vinyl or CD, and although I like an amount of Johnny Cash’s songs, there’s an amount of them I...
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