Joslyn & The Sweet Compression – Joslyn & The Sweet Compression
About five, six years back, I realized that my record collection was seriously lacking in horns, and particularly deficient in Tower of Power – happily corrected with a few visits […]
About five, six years back, I realized that my record collection was seriously lacking in horns, and particularly deficient in Tower of Power – happily corrected with a few visits […]
Every now and then I take a leap of faith that really pays off. I’ve been a fan of the Sundazed label for quite a long time now – starting […]
Some people can’t even alphabet correctly, it seems. I was blithely plowing through the albums I’ve bought in the past year or so that I wouldn’t have covered in my […]
Back last autumn we finally decided we needed to subscribe to the Criterion Channel – all kinds of movies we wanted to see that had gone behind their paywall when […]
This was a 1979 release – there were three other albums between “Let’s Take It to the Stage” and this, but I don’t have any of them, yet. Of all […]
In case you thought the title of this 1975 release meant this would be a live album: it is not. The title track, as well as the highly questionable “No […]
This was the one that started it all for me – in 2019, when Forever Changes was still a weekly pop-up operating alongside a local coffee shop/bakery, I asked Shawn […]
1973’s Cosmic Slop brings us a Funkadelic without Eddie Hazel, but with some more traditional song structures. If my 13-year-old brain had encountered this album when it came out, I […]
What to do when you’ve put out an absolutely groundbreaking record? Five months later, put out another. If you’re Funkadelic. No kidding – Funkadelic was released February 1970, and “Free […]
I’m right here admitting that for many years, my record collection was unfunky. Funkless. Free of the funk. An old Ohio Players record and George Clinton’s “R&B Skeletons in the […]