Karla Bonoff — Wild Heart of the Young
There are some artists to whom I feel like I owe an apology. Karla Bonoff would be one. I’ve already written about how, despite my absolute, total love for her first album, and despite...
Category: Pop
Blotto – Hello! My Name is Blotto. What’s Yours? (2)
So, I’m at our local twice-a-year vintage festival, “A Whole Lot of Lulu,” possibly spring of last year. Sometimes we call it Lulufest, because the store that sponsors it is also called “A Whole...
Blotto – Combo Akimbo
1982’s Combo Akimbo was Blotto’s Big Chance — their opportunity to be recognized on a national scale, to be the Weird Al of their day (which, of course, was exactly the same day). That...
Blotto – Across and Down
Blotto’s next release was another EP, 1980’s “Across and Down,” which had the clever conceit of an album cover that was a real crossword puzzle. They’d already lost Blanche by this time, so no...
Rory Block — Intoxication
I haven’t had the chance to write about Rory Block before, even though she takes up an amount of space in my CD collection. In the early ’90s we had a strong Rory Block...
Jane Birkin – Jane Birkin / Serge Gainsbourg
What can you say about an album you’ve owned for a week? Well, for starters, you can say it’s the first one you’ve had to enter in the blog out of alphabetical order. But...
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...
Berlin – Pleasure Victim
As we stroll through the ‘B’ section of my record collection, we have hit on a little stretch that has chronology and MTV in common. The Belle Stars, Pat Benatar, and now Berlin –...
The Belle Stars – The Belle Stars
Oh boy, was I highly susceptible to some of those early MTV hits. We had cable (run through a fuzzy black and white console TV) in our final college apartment starting I think in...
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