Ramblings about My Records
This is one of my weirder recent acquisitions, in terms of being outside my normal tastes. I knew exactly zero about cumbia music before discovering Los Bitchos, whose infectious cumbia-based instrumentals delight me –...
Okay, not every purchase is a good purchase, even if it’s from the dollar bin, even if it’s likely my dealer just tossed it in with whatever else I was buying that day. I...
Sometime in the around 1991, I picked up a CD on Alligator, “Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 4.” Most likely I got it at the old Records ‘n’ Such in Stuyvesant Plaza, which had a...
Here’s another really heavyweight reissue by Lightnin’ Hopkins – I mean, the cardboard has a weight not seen since the early ’60s. Very sturdy gatefold. Verve was always oriented toward quality production, and seems...
Did I end up buying a second copy of “Mojo Hand“? Yes, yes I did. Did I know that it was virtually identical to another recently acquired copy of “Mojo Hand” when I bought...
Light In The Attic is a label that I was really only familiar with because of their really excellent reissues of Betty Davis’s groundbreaking funk albums, which showed a real dedication to the music...
I guess one good Jenny Lewis deserves another, so here’s another – 2023’s “Joy’All.” I was uncharacteristically aware that this was coming out. Sometimes the algorithm gets it right. It may also have been...
As much as I’ve imposed my musical tastes on my kids through the years (what choice did they have?), sometimes it does come back in the other direction. One of their friends turned our...
Several years into this project, I’m embarrassed: Case in point: I am currently in a phase I call “catchup” – having gotten through the artists beginning with ‘P’ in my collection (last spring!), I’ve...
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