Carole King — Tapestry
I don’t know how, and I’m not sure I should admit this, but I made it through the ’70s without ever procuring a copy of Tapestry. It came out in February 1971, a year...
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Albert King — Truckload of Lovin’
As I said last time, I only had a handful of Albert King songs until pretty recently. I picked this one up on my first trip to Siren Records back in February 2020, just...
Albert King – Live Wire / Blues Power
You won’t get rich selling blues records, sadly, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to prevail on Forever Changes to have another blues day at his currently monthly popup store, but I...
Jorma Kaukonen – Too Many Years
I’ve already written about how late I was to the Jorma Kaukonen party, despite having been a huge fan of Jefferson Airplane for decades. I only ventured into Hot Tuna territory in the past...
Katrina and the Waves — Waves
The followup to their big debut, this came out just a year or so later, in 1986. With a huge hit and a successful album written almost entirely by Kimberly Rew, , the followup...
Katrina And The Waves — Katrina And The Waves
Like most people, I became aware of Katrina and The Waves at a very precise moment in 1985 when “Walking on Sunshine” suddenly seemed to be absolutely everywhere. It’s weird to reflect that it...
Billy Karloff & the Extremes — Let Your Fingers Do The Talking
This is one of those absolute gems that I would never ever have heard of had roommate Danny not spent a summer in Boston, soaking up culture that wasn’t available to us in the...
Joslyn & The Sweet Compression – Joslyn & The Sweet Compression
About five, six years back, I realized that my record collection was seriously lacking in horns, and particularly deficient in Tower of Power – happily corrected with a few visits to the record store...
Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Legendary Typewriter Tape
Can you even imagine what San Francisco was like as a creative environment in the early ’60s? The Beat Generation leading into the hippies and the Summer of Love? The kind of environment where...
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