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...
Ramblings about My Records
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...
Eventually I figured out that what I want from a Jimi Hendrix record is for it to be live. I’ve already written about “Are You Experienced?” and how I prefer “Axis: Bold As Love,”...
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
A couple of years back (2022, apparently!) I wrote that I was really hoping to get my hands on a vinyl edition of Florence + The Machine’s “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” and...
Here we are in 2024, and Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” remains one of the top-selling albums of all time, still sitting high up on the weekly indie store charts. Any store owner will tell you...
When the COVID lockdowns finally ended and vaccines made travel less risky, I was anxious to get back to Troy, NY. Yes, I desperately wanted to see my child, whom I hadn’t seen since...
Once again, I missed one even as I was catching up with my new records starting with ‘B’. Or maybe I wasn’t sure I was going to own up to this one? I actually...
I admit I usually struggle to find a lot to get excited about with Record Store Day releases – sometimes there are three or four things I want, maybe one that I desperately want,...
Sure, I can alphabetize. Zoiks. Well, sometimes I just miss a record – in this case, literally because it was right next to the turntable and not on the shelf, because I play it...
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