Badfinger — Straight Up
Less than two months after I found “Magic Christian Music,” another nice Badfinger record turned up in the Forever Changes bins: 1971’s “Straight Up.” This is a classic, with “Day After Day” and “Baby...
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Badfinger — Magic Christian Music
For the longest time, there has been a Badfinger-sized hole in my record collection. Back when we were initially collecting records, in the early ’80s, my roommate Danny had several Badfinger albums, including this...
Argent — Encore: Live In Concert
This one is being written after I’ve already finished with the A’s in my collection; I just picked it up in February. I cannot overstate my love of The Zombies, and of course Rod...
Dave Alvin — From An Old Guitar
I’ve written before of how I became exposed to The Blasters solely through one of the greatest movies of all time, “Streets of Fire” (contrary opinions shan’t be tolerated). But after finding those initial...
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven
Again, playing catch-up with new purchases that were out of my alphabetical order. When I started this vanity project, I didn’t imagine this would be such a problem, because I was gonna move through...
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women – Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
Time for some serious catching up. While I’ve been slowly plowing through descriptions of my record collection in something like alphabetical order (on the last few entries, maybe my ordering wasn’t so perfect), I’ve...
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