Bettye LaVette — Things Have Changed
I first heard of Bettye LaVette seven or eight years ago – I can’t remember if it was pre-move, or mid-move. Lee had been driving somewhere and listening to NPR’s “All Songs Considered” and wrote...
Category: Rock
Cyndi Lauper — She’s So Unusual
It’s hard to express how big this album was in 1984, how ubiquitous it was, and how long it was on the charts (77 weeks). Released in October 1983, the single “Girls Just Want...
The Laughing Dogs — The Laughing Dogs
I’ve written before about the handful of albums I got as a result of working for The Daily Orange, Syracuse University’s independent daily newspaper. it always amazed me that record companies routinely sent free...
Sleepy LaBeef — Early, Rare and Rockin’ Sides
This is another record that will be forever associated with my bleakest summer, the summer of ’81. Not quite 21, I was drunk and adrift. I had skipped the previous semester because of financial...
Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper — The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper
Having discovered and loved Super Session, I continued to acquire any number of albums I had previously ignored that featured, in some way or other, Mike Bloomfield or Al Kooper. I bought “Grape Jam,”...
Bloomfield Kooper Stills — Super Session
I knew nothing about this album until about four years ago, when my resurgent interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young led me to greatly expand my appreciation for Stephen Stills, coincidentally at a...
The Kinks — Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One
There is, of course, one more Kinks album that I have just procured from Forever Changes, one that I embarrassingly didn’t own until last month. Given all that has gone on in that month,...
The Kinks — Word of Mouth
This project had to take a bit of time off. Such is life, and death. I wasn’t really in the mood to delve into personal memories for a bit. But here we are, back...
The Kinks — State of Confusion
Coming hot on the successes of “Low Budget,” the live “One For The Road” and “Give The People What They Want” (the latter two I don’t have on vinyl – must have been Danny...
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