Ramblings about My Records
This was actually my first Paul Butterfield album, picked up just a year ago as part of my late-blooming Butterfield/Bloomfield/Kooper fascination. This 1969 release is more of the kind of horn-based soul that filled...
I found this just two weeks ago, on my first trip ever to Sound House Records, a relatively new record store in the old home district of Troy, NY that I had tried but...
I wrote back in January about how I really came to owning much of The Byrds catalog very late. I had the Greatest Hits collection from 1967. My college roommate had this record, and...
I’ve known about Sundazed Records, the reissue label inexplicably based in the obscure Hudson Valley town of Coxsackie, for a very long time, ever since I encountered a couple of fine surf music collections...
It’s been a while now since I wrote about the Butterfield Blues Band – way back at the start of 2020, when I wrote about “East-West,” which I had just gotten from Sundazed. Absolutely...
Our last disc was by “The Eric Burdon Band.” This is just “Eric Burdon Band.” Budgetary issues? Label wouldn’t spring for a “The”? Well that, can’t be it – unless they used up all...
Here’s another new old record — new to me, old to the earth. Despite being a big Animals fan and, by not much extension, a big Eric Burdon fan, I don’t believe I ever...
Like Bikini Kill, I found out about this by pulling a shift in my local record store and deciding to give it a listen. Unlike Bikini Kill, I had never even heard of Bully...
I swear, my ability to lie to myself is just extraordinary. I keep telling myself I’m going to make some headway on this list, catching up with records I’ve bought in the past couple...
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