Delaney & Bonnie & Friends — On Tour with Eric Clapton
In my early years, I paid no attention to Delaney & Bonnie — they weren’t really a singles act in the days when Top 40 radio had all my attention; in my college years,...
Category: Rock
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – So Far
This is the album that was my actual introduction to CSNY. In the ’70s, this album was ubiquitous, required of any teenager with the slightest hippie/folkie/singer-songwriter tendencies — and most of my friends were...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 4 Way Street
Here’s how much I had back-burnered my interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young since those early days of teen fandom: I forgot that this record even existed. Surely, I saw it dozens of...
The Creeps — Enjoy The Creeps
This was actually the first record by the Creeps, from 1986. After discovering “Now Dig This!” back in February, I knew I had seen another Creeps record in that magical bin of ’80s wonders...
The Creeps — Now Dig This!
A rare case where I’m going to take a pair of records out of chronological order because this is the one that first caught my eye and turned me on to the wonderful oddness...
Cream – Heavy Cream
Okay, until I ran across this record at a vinyl market earlier this year, I don’t believe I had ever seen it. Issued in October 1972, now well more than three years since Cream’s...
Cream – Live Cream
As I noted, other than a battered copy of “Fresh Cream” and a somewhat less battered copy of “Goodbye,” my Cream experience in the vinyl age relied on what I had put onto cassette...
Cream — The Goodbye Tour — Live At The Forum
The dangers of having a friend who owns a record store, particularly a record store that is in walking distance, and is in fact between my house and nearly everywhere else I go in...
Cream — Goodbye
So it turns out that the Cream album I’ve had the longest is their last one, the live and studio mix that came out after their breakup. I’d say I picked up my first...
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