The Blues Brothers – Briefcase Full of Blues
If you’re any younger than I am, this may be hard to understand — but there was a time when going to college kinda meant living a life apart from television culture. Cable in...
Category: Live Album
The Blasters – Over There
Picked this up just a couple of years after discovering The Blasters. It was a frustratingly short glimpse at what a Blasters live show must have been like. Just six songs, only one original...
Billy Vera and the Beaters – By Request: The Best of Billy Vera and the Beaters
Another one being inserted out of alphabetical order because I insist on buying more vinyl. It’s often the case that there are artists out there whose names I have heard dozens, hundreds, perhaps thousands...
Chuck Berry – Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll
There’s no denying that Chuck Berry was hugely important among the earliest rockers. (There’s no denying he was several other things as well.) But he’s really thought of as a singles artist, not an...
The Beatles – The Beatles Broadcasts (bootleg)
I’ve written before about The Flashcubes – for post-punk powerpop fans in Syracuse at the end of the ‘70s, there was no band more energetic or exciting. While we saw them in a lot of...
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