Ray Charles – Yes Indeed!
This was another Ray album I only picked up recently. Man, these old Atlantic pressings sound sweet, even . . . holy cow, 60 years later. It was only his third studio album, and...
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Ray Charles – Ray Charles at Newport 1958
Ray Charles. What can you say about Ray Charles that hasn’t already been said? He occupied an interesting space as I was growing up – acknowledged as a genius, ubiquitous on the “oldies” stations,...
Harry Chapin — Greatest Stories Live
I loved Harry Chapin. His story songs were just part of what it was to listen to music in the ’70s. I had a number of his hits or at least singles that saw...
Johnny Cash — Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom
There’s very little of anything that could be considered country in my collection, either on vinyl or CD, and although I like an amount of Johnny Cash’s songs, there’s an amount of them I...
The Cars — The Cars
Okay. True confessions time: I never owned this album before. Despite being a freshman in college when this was released, despite being the target audience for anything new wave (or at least I would...
The Byrds — Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
As I’ve said before, my weird relationship with The Byrds is: big fan, own almost none of their records. For decades, all I had was one 1967 greatest hits collection and “Fifth Dimension.” Yet,...
The Byrds — Another Dimension
So, fast forward about, say, 39 years, from when I bought my first Byrds vinyl to when I bought my next. The tremendous reissue label Sundazed Records, which I first became familiar with through...
The Byrds — Greatest Hits
True confessions time. This 1967 collection, which I bought well-used in 1980, is the only Byrds album I ever owned, until quite recently. Did I love this record, and play it endlessly? I did....
The Butterfield Blues Band — Keep On Moving
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...
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