Maximillian – Maximillian
When it time to clear this from my new acquisitions shelf, I realized that I hadn’t played it much, and thought that was at least in part because when I got it, my wife...
Category: RecordStoreDay
April March – April March Meets Staplin
That last April March acquisition, “In Cinerama,” left such an impression on me that when it was announced she would have a new release for Record Store Day 2023, there was no question in...
Light In The Attic and Friends
Light In The Attic is a label that I was really only familiar with because of their really excellent reissues of Betty Davis’s groundbreaking funk albums, which showed a real dedication to the music...
Jorma Kaukonen – Reno Road
Despite my love of Jefferson Airplane, I never followed Hot Tuna or Jorma Kaukonen until just a few years ago. During the COVID-19 lockdown, word got out that Jorma was playing some of the...
John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling
When this popped up in the blues bin, I admit I was a little hesitant because here was a John Lee Hooker record I’d never heard of before, and a live performance at that,...
John Lee Hooker – Live at Cafe Au-Go-Go
Next up in the new John Lee Hooker acquisitions: Live at Cafe Au-Go-Go. Recorded in New York City in 1966, originally released in 1967, this features about the best backing Hooker could have: Muddy...
John Lee Hooker – Don’t Turn Me From Your Door
Next up in our flurry of John Lee Hooker acquisitions for 2024: this Black Friday Record Store Day reissue of 1963’s “Don’t Turn Me From Your Door.” His only release on ATCO, it brings...
Jimi Hendrix – Songs For Groovy Children
The latest Record Store Day, the Black Friday 2024 event, was really the first time I had a long list of wants, and this was on it. For a bunch of reasons, live recordings...
Heated Garage – Toasty Treasures from Minnesota’s Key Bank Studio
Some garage rock compilations are more special than others. In a sense, garage rock records are the definition of limited edition – but this one is actually numbered! This was a Record Store Day pickup...
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