Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hollywood Bowl, August 19, 1967
Eventually I figured out that what I want from a Jimi Hendrix record is for it to be live. I’ve already written about “Are You Experienced?” and how I prefer “Axis: Bold As Love,”...
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Heated Garage – Toasty Treasures from Minnesota’s Key Bank Studio
Some garage rock compilations are more special than others. In a sense, garage rock records are the definition of limited edition – but this one is actually numbered! This was a Record Store Day pickup...
Isaac Hayes – Truck Turner (Original Soundtrack)
Okay, it has been a long time since I saw a movie and instantly thought, “I need that soundtrack!” What was the last one? “Go!”? “Empire Records”? Something back thataway. And most of the...
Eddie Hazel – Jams From The Heart
In keeping with my relatively recent discovery of all things Funkadelic – here’s a solo record from Eddie Hazel, the blistering guitarist who made so many of those Funkadelic records what they are. Now,...
Junior Wells & Buddy Guy – Live in Hiroshima 1975
This is an album I didn’t even know existed until I ran across it in the blues bin at Forever Changes on the next to last day of 2023. Well, it turns out that...
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Alone & Acoustic
This album has never been far from my heart or my player since it came out in 1991. It was early on in my serious blues dive of the ’90s that I found this...
Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues: 1958-1963 Recordings
This here is some early Buddy Guy. It’s weird, because I still kinda think of Buddy Guy as one of the young men of the blues, the second generation of greats anyway, and yet...
Nikki Giovanni – The Way I Feel
I already wrote about my early experience with Nikki Giovanni, and my wife’s complete fascination with her, back in 2020. So here’s another incredible re-release by Modern Harmonic of a work from 1975. Could...
Garage Punk Unknowns Volume Four
Found this on a return trip to Syracuse in May, when we got caught in a downpour (it being Syracuse) and stopped in to The Sound Garden in Armory Square to get out of...
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