Melanie — Garden In The City
Another of my numerous Melanie acquisitions from the MaTones $5 bins during the depths of the pandemic. By that point in 2020, afraid to go anywhere and seeing worse times coming, if I saw...
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Melanie — Leftover Wine
Perhaps the most bargain-bin of my Melanie records, this one was only $3 (in 2020 dollars, mind you!), but even though the cover’s edges are a bit rough, it looks good and the sound...
Melanie — Candles in The Rain
Looking back at my abandonment of the Woodstock Two album, which I talked about last time, I really wondered why the Melanie tracks that were on that collection hadn’t resonated with me, and didn’t...
Melanie — Born to Be
A long, long time ago, I had the much-less-sought-after Woodstock Two soundtrack album. I’m pretty sure I got it at what was, for me, a life-changing garage sale. For whatever reason, despite my love...
Meat Loaf — Bat Out of Hell
In 1977, when “Bat Out of Hell” was released, I was 16, and this album was a goddamn cultural phenomenon. It’s surprising now to find that neither the album nor its singles went to...
John Mayall — The Latest Edition
This 1974 release from John Mayall (without the band name) was my first foray into Mayall, after years of simply ignoring the band. While considered legendary, given their lack of hits I had truly...
John Mayall — Moving On
So it happens that I’m touching on this one before I leave the ‘M’ section of my collection, but in fact this begins a long series of “catch-up” entries – the records that I’ve...
John Mayall’s Blues Breakers — Crusade
I do wish there were some consistency as to whether “Blues Breakers” is one word or two, but perhaps that’s a lot to ask of British musicians. On this album it’s two words, so...
John Mayall — Blues Breakers
For the longest time, I just paid no attention to John Mayall. My British blues was mostly filtered through The Animals and the like – that particularly British turn on R&B. For my blues,...
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