Country Joe McDonald — Hold On It’s Coming
Going through the bins at the Forever Changes pop-up, and what the hell is this? A Country Joe record I’ve never seen before? Indeed. At first I thought it was a movie soundtrack –...
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Country Joe & The Fish – Together
Their third album, released in 1968, is apparently somewhat ironically titled. It was begun as a Country Joe-less effort by just The Fish, but then Joe McDonald rejoined the band. Still, most of the...
Country Joe & the Fish — I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
My kid can tell this story better than I can, but my short version of it is: they were taking AP US History. In the course of covering the Vietnam War, their teacher played...
Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe & the Fish are a tangled chronology for me. I know pretty much exactly when I first started buying their records, but I don’t quite know why. I know roughly when I...
James Cotton — High Compression
This is another recent find (2020) from a Friday afternoon run to MaTones up in Collegeville. That’s what passes for entertainment for us in the pandemic – a very occasional trek to a record store...
The James Cotton Blues Band – The James Cotton Blues Band
Don’t let the relative roughness of this record cover fool you – this thing is in pristine condition. Verve was one of those labels that, for whatever reason, had indestructible vinyl. Every Verve record...
Elvis Costello (Various Artists) – Out Of Our Idiot
It’s an odd compilation album that officially, on the spine, lists “Various Artists” when there is, in fact, one artist in common to every song on the album: Elvis Costello. This collection was released...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Blood & Chocolate
“King of America,” which came out in February 1986, and which I only experienced in compact disc as it was one of my very first CD purchases, was a goddamned masterpiece. It only reached...
Elvis Costello — Spike
In 1989, Elvis Costello released “Spike,” one of the few times I have really anticipated an album, really wanted it the moment it came out. I tend not to get excited about new material...
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