Larkin Poe — Self Made Man
Listen, when a new artist comes out, everybody says that they’re the latest and greatest, that they’re the heirs to this and that, that they area doing something amazingly new, taking it back to...
Vinyl Distractions
Christine Lavin — Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind
How did I discover Christine Lavin, several years before my big neofolk immersion? I think it had to have been through NPR. In the mid-’80s, and especially in my grad school years, NPR was...
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...
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 Meet Their Makers
A silly name and cover concept, though I liked it at the time, which was 1980. This is also a promo and I’m honestly not sure whether I bought it used or got it...
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...
k.d. lang — Shadowland
I’m not sure when I would have heard of k.d. lang were it not for a Warner Records sampler CD series, the “Just Say Yes” series. The first one came out in November 1987,...
Lake Street Dive – Fun Machine: The Sequel
Here’s the last of my Lake Street Dive records – and I think the last of the catch-up records. As I have tried to go through my record collection alphabetically, I decided to stop...
Lake Street Dive — Obviously
A 2021 release, y’all! I don’t live entirely in the past! Back at the beginning of 2018, our local coffeehouse was gonna be hosting a show by a duo called Rachael and Vilray, and...
Things We Said Today