Bloomfield Kooper Stills — Super Session
I knew nothing about this album until about four years ago, when my resurgent interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young led me to greatly expand my appreciation for Stephen Stills, coincidentally at a...
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The Kinks — Kriminal Kinks
There aren’t many bootlegs in my collection. Being mostly broke in the days when i gathered most of my collection, I simply wasn’t taking chances on unknown quantities. The couple of times I took...
The Kinks — Everybody’s in Show-Biz
I had passed on this for years and years – always saw it in the bins, never picked it up. I didn’t seem to know what it was. I’d look at the track listing and,...
The Kinks — The Live Kinks
I’ve been so spoiled by a slew of recent live albums, with full, restored sound from well-recorded concerts of the ’60s – particularly those recorded at the Fillmore — that I started to wonder...
Albert King – Live Wire / Blues Power
You won’t get rich selling blues records, sadly, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to prevail on Forever Changes to have another blues day at his currently monthly popup store, but I...
Jefferson Airplane — Woodstock (Sunday August 17, 1969)
At the same sale where I bought my seminal Jefferson Airplane records, I got a copy of “Woodstock Two,” which included two tracks by Jefferson Airplane, “Saturday Afternoon / Won’t You Try” and “Eskimo...
Jefferson Airplane — Bless Its Pointed Little Head
There’s such a locational component of the memories that are important to us. For me and my fellow vinyl geeks, it isn’t just the records, it’s the places we bought them. I remember where...
Joe Jackson — Big World
I can’t think of an album that came out in 1986 that was more amazing, more important to me. And that was the year Elvis Costello’s “King of America” came out, so that’s saying...
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago
Looking through my new acquisitions shelf, I’m realizing that I have bought a lot of blues in the past several years. Hell, I’ve bought a lot of blues in the last several months. These...
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