Wanda Jackson — Town Hall Party
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 back in 2011. I...
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Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5 — Great Songs and Performances
In a recent online discussion with some local fellow music afficionados, someone opined that for them, the soul music pyramid had Stax/Volt records at the top, followed by Philly soul, with Motown in third...
Joe Jackson — Blaze of Glory
I’m not sure I can begin to express how much this album spoke to me when it came out in 1989, and how much it continues to to this day. It’s a latter-day “Quadrophenia”...
Joe Jackson — Tucker
Joe Jackson – Tucker Whereas “Mike’s Murder” just seemed to work as an album, without much consideration of the movie it was ostensibly the soundtrack to, 1988’s “Tucker” is much more of a traditional...
Joe Jackson — Big World
I can’t think of an album that came out in 1986 that was more amazing, more important to me. And that was the year Elvis Costello’s “King of America” came out, so that’s saying...
Joe Jackson — Body and Soul
Just months after “Mike’s Murder,” this sensational album came out in March 1984; I have strong associations of this album with spring thaws and the smell of that cool air as the snow melts,...
Joe Jackson — Mike’s Murder
We only lived in Presidential Plaza in Syracuse for a year, yet there is so much music that I directly associate with that apartment. This album is definitely part of that. In part, it...
Joe Jackson — Night and Day
Well, this is the one that really launched Joe Jackson for me. June 1982 – just before my final year of college. “Steppin’ Out” hit and hit huge, both on the radio and on MTV,...
Joe Jackson — Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive
Although this came out in 1981, I didn’t get it until sometime in 1984, after “Body and Soul” came out. It’s weird how these things can get held in memory, but I think this...
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