George “Mojo” Buford – Mojo Workin’
This album answers the eternal musical question: what happens when you cross a Chicago bluesman and “Surfin’ Bird”? Very shortly after picking up Mojo Buford’s Chicago Blues Summit, this album popped up when I...
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George “Mojo” Buford – Mojo Buford’s Chicago Blues Summit
Okay, let’s start with this – before I saw this record in my favorite record store, Forever Changes here in Phoenixville, PA, I don’t believe I’d ever heard of Mojo Buford. That didn’t really...
Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Memphis Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson – The Reissued 1963 Blues Festival
Okay, my big challenge with this one is: Where am I gonna file it? I don’t sort things on my shelves by “various artists.” I think when I slipped it in the M’s, my...
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
My 1990s – my fourth decade – were filled with the things that used to occupy one’s 30s: building a career, buying a home, building a family, maybe settling into my place in the...
John Mayall – The Sun Is Shining Down
Ahh, this one’s a little bittersweet. Early in 2022, John Mayall released his 36th studio album, “The Sun Is Shining Down.” He was 88 years old when he recorded this, and, as seems to...
John Mayall – A Banquet In Blues
This one’s an oddity in my collection – not by any means for the artist or the genre, but for the way I came by it. Nearly everything I’ve collected has either been from...
John Mayall – Jazz Blues Fusion
Once I started in on Mayall, just a few decades after first learning about him, I was all in. Shortly after picking up Moving On, I found this copy of Jazz Blues Fusion in...
John Mayall – Thru The Years
I’m not sure how, in my early years of collecting, I formed an opinion of John Mayall and his bands without actually ever hearing them – but I did. And in those days, when...
John Mayall – Memories
On the previous album, “The Turning Point,” John Mayall stripped his band down to four players, and no drummer. For this 1971 album, Mayall took it a step further, just a trio with Larry...
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