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...
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The Kinks — Face to Face
So here’s where we move into the 2020s with me making up for lost time on bands that I love, would consider myself a deeply devoted fan of, and yet have only a limited...
The Kinks — The Kinks Greatest Hits!
For the longest time, this 1966 greatest hits collection comprised my entire early Kinks, other than a live album we’ll talk about next and an odd Portuguese compilation. It seems that I was not...
The Kinks — Kinks
I’ve been a fan of The Kinks since college. Of course, their songs were in the backdrop all through my youth, just like any of the other British invasion groups. In fact, more than...
Carole King — Music
I belong to a lovely little Facebook group of mostly local music aficionados, who actually get together in person from time to time. (It’s kinda like back when we had a society.) We throw...
Carole King — Tapestry
I don’t know how, and I’m not sure I should admit this, but I made it through the ’70s without ever procuring a copy of Tapestry. It came out in February 1971, a year...
Katrina and the Waves — Waves
The followup to their big debut, this came out just a year or so later, in 1986. With a huge hit and a successful album written almost entirely by Kimberly Rew, , the followup...
Katrina And The Waves — Katrina And The Waves
Like most people, I became aware of Katrina and The Waves at a very precise moment in 1985 when “Walking on Sunshine” suddenly seemed to be absolutely everywhere. It’s weird to reflect that it...
The Jellybricks — Some Kind of Lucky
It must be admitted: I spent a couple of decades in a musical desert. After our early years of passionately following some local bands and going out to see them every chance we got,...
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