Love — Love
Love is one of those bands that I should have been into decades earlier. This release from 1966 fits squarely with the other garage rock psychedelia that I was snapping up in the early...
Vinyl Distractions
The Loons — Inside Out Your Mind
When I first moved to the great little city of Phoenixville, and started going into the little record shop down on the main drag, I didn’t know that I was going to reignite my...
Claudine Longet — Colours
I bought this in the dollar bin at Forever Changes, same as “Claudine,” earlier this year. It’s from 1968, a somewhat better album than the other, including some very nice versions of “Scarborough Fair,”...
Claudine Longet — Claudine
Earlier this year, when things were opening up again and Forever Changes was getting back to normal (¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoji) with a monthly pop-up at Steel City Coffeehouse here in Phoenixville, I was digging through...
Lightnin’ Hopkins — Mojo Hand
Incredibly, I only had one Lightnin’ Hopkins album prior to this, a CD titled “The Legacy of the Blues vol. 12,” that I bought back around 1990 or so at the lamented Records ‘n’...
George Liberace — Hi-Fi Fun
Okay, I bought this at a yard sale over on Prospect Street a couple of years back, 100% for the FABULOUS cover photo. It’s a beauty. But am I actually going to play a...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Milk and Honey
Well, here’s another one I hadn’t listened to in decades, and didn’t really remember very well. There were a couple of tracks that had made it onto mix tapes at the time, and those...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue
After John Lennon was murdered, I put together a tape of Lennon songs (both Beatles and post-Beatles). I had recorded a long-form radio interview he had done to promote Double Fantasy, and copied snippets...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Double Fantasy
Okay. It’s the fall of 1980, a time when my Beatlemaniac roommate and I were living in the apartment building we called The Embassy, on the corner of University and Harrison in Syracuse, just...
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