Lake Street Dive – Obviously
I don’t refer to the pandemic in the past tense – it’s still very much with us, and the effects are still just as deadly for some. We managed to evade COVID until this...
Vinyl Distractions
Lake Street Dive – Free Yourself Up
As part of my late catch-up to Lake Street Dive, I bought this 2018 release just a year ago. I must admit that it has been at the bottom of my stack when it...
Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
This fun release from 2016 is pretty new to me – picked it up at the beginning of 2022, when we all needed something new and fun in our lives, and this album really...
Lake Street Dive – Bad Self Portraits
As I mentioned before, I didn’t get on the Lake Street Dive train until 2021, but once I did, I was all aboard and have since collected most of their discography. This release from...
Lake Street Dive / Fun Machine
And so we come to the portion of this project that will go just about like the Funkadelic portion did – where I have a whole bunch of new (to me) records in my...
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...
Eartha Kitt — I Love Men
There is precious little dance music in my collection. That’s not to say I haven’t had some over the years – in the mid-’80s I picked up a bunch of dancey soul and r&b. Rock...
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