Funkadelic – Funkadelic
My loving wife gave me a great biography for my birthday – “George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire,” by Kris Needs. Great because it answers the question Shawn (owner of...
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Sue Foley – Live in Austin – Volume 1
So, after her last two releases I once again adopted a rule that I first applied in the ’90s and should never have stopped – if I see Sue Foley, I buy Sue Foley....
Sue Foley – The Ice Queen
Immediately after getting back on the Sue Foley bandwagon with Pinky’s Blues in 2023, I picked up “The Ice Queen,” a rather acclaimed release from 2018. I mean, she’s just so good. It’s an...
Sue Foley – Pinky’s Blues
So way back in the day, there was a record/CD store called Records N Such in Stuyvesant Plaza – a local chain that had quite an eclectic selection, an entire separate classical listening room,...
Florence + The Machine – High As Hope
This 2018 release from Florence + The Machine really captured me – if not with quite the emotional impact of “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” it was still super strong, very personal – big...
Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
A couple of years back (2022, apparently!) I wrote that I was really hoping to get my hands on a vinyl edition of Florence + The Machine’s “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” and...
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Live
Here we are in 2024, and Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” remains one of the top-selling albums of all time, still sitting high up on the weekly indie store charts. Any store owner will tell you...
Lol Creme and Kevin Godley – L
My note for this one on Discogs reads “Weird pickup for nostalgic reasons.” Correct. Secondhand nostalgia, at that. I’ve written before about the influence of Cocaine Kurtz on our secondhand listening habits back in...
Bikini Kill – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
I’ve got a serious problem – my “new acquisitions” shelf is overflowing. In the old days, it was a selection of maybe 30 records that I had recently acquired and was listening to in...
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