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 […]
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 […]
I’ll admit that despite having a bit of love for rockabilly, I barely had a sense of Wanda Jackson until relatively recently, probably when she was produced by Jack White […]
Wow, I came close to completely missing this because the box sets are off on another section of the shelves. (In fact, I’ve got to double back and talk about […]
To my taste, this second record from Pearl Harbour (who explains that her British label changed the spelling of her name) is much more enjoyable than her debut, settling much […]
I cannot exactly explain why this is my only album by The Cramps. I have had it forever. I have always loved it. I used songs from it to fill […]
This record came out in 1987. As I said earlier, my favorite of the eight sides in the Eddie Cochran 20th Anniversary Album box set was the last side — […]
This collection of Eddie Cochran songs came from The Netherlands. Its release date is unclear but probably 1979. I bought it at Syracuse’s Desertshore Records for $4 (and never took […]
It’s taken me pretty much a week to crank out five paragraphs about one of the most important record sets of my life. Maybe that’s a sign of the times […]
This Charly Records compilation came out in 1979, and I probably picked it up before the summer of 1981. That miserable summer of 1981 that I wrote about? This was […]
Boy, there have been a very select number of people who have had an outsized impact on my musical education and tastes. Some have been lifelong friends. One, I knew […]