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Dinah Wahington, For Those In Love, 1955 on Emarcy.
Dinah Wahington, For Those In Love, 1955 on Emarcy. Emarcy is what you get when you pronounce MRC (Mercury Record Company). Arrangements by Quincy Jones, with Wynton Kelly, Clark Terry, Jimmy Cleveland, Paul Quinichette, Barry Galbraith, Jimmy Cobb, Keter Betts, and Cecil Payne. Great versions of My Old Flame, You Don’t Know What Love Is,…
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Jewel, Live at the Inner Change, 2020 on Craft.
Jewel, Live at the Inner Change, 2020 on Craft. Record Store Day release from 2020 including a show flyer Early live material from a coffee shop in Pacific Beach
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2022
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Tom Tom Club, Downtown Rockers, 2012 on Nacional / Tip Top.
Tom Tom Club, Downtown Rockers, 2012 on Nacional / Tip Top. Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth with guests Natalie and Elliot Bergman on two tracks and Dickie Landry on two. This version was issued on pink vinyl in 2021 as part of the Ten Bands One Cause series benefiting breast cancer support and awareness.
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Merle Haggard, Live From Austin TX ’78, 2008 on New West Records.
Merle Haggard, Live From Austin TX ’78, 2008 on New West Records. Recorded in 1978, relased in 2008; my copy is. 2019 reissue. One of two Live at Austin City Limits (the show, not the fesitival) LPs for Haggard – the other is from 1985 and is just titled “Live From Austin TX”
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Vic Chesnutt, Little, 1990 on Texas Hotel.
Vic Chesnutt, Little, 1990 on Texas Hotel. My copy is the 2017 New West reissue with bonus tracks (which sounds awesome). Chesnutt’s debut album, produced by Michael Stipe from R.E.M.
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Thompson Twins, Close to the Bone, 1987 on Arista.
Thompson Twins, Close to the Bone, 1987 on Arista. Later Thompson Twins without Joe Leeway
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The Cure, The Top, 1984 on Sire / Fiction.
The Cure, The Top, 1984 on Sire / Fiction. US version on Sire label. Hard core devotee of 80s Cure. No longer have the hair for the full on goth look but it is still in my heart. Via Mill No 5 record fair
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
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Legendary Black Jazz Stars in their First Films, 1978 on Biograph.
Legendary Black Jazz Stars in their First Films, 1978 on Biograph. Compilation featuring Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway. Only one Bessie Smith tune sadly but it is St. Louis blues with Fletcher Henderson. Rohauer Films (I assume) is Raymond Rohauer, an Infamous collector of silent films often accused of taking ownership of things that…
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Eric Burdon & War, Eric Burdon Declares “War,” 1970 on MGM.
Eric Burdon & War, Eric Burdon Declares “War,” 1970 on MGM. First LP by Burdon & War – produced by Jerry Goldstein (who also workeded with Blood Sweat & Tears and many others). Via an Everything But The House lot
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Saturday, September 24th, 2022 – Antje Duvekot & Chris O’Brien at the Me & Thee
Chris O’Brien and Antje Duvekot at the Me & Thee in Marblehead
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Frank Sinatra, Sinatra at the Sands, 1966 on Reprise.
Frank Sinatra, Sinatra at the Sands, 1966 on Reprise. My copy is from the 2022 @vinylmeplease anthology Story of Quincy Jones, as he was the arranger and conductor here, conducting the Count Basie Orchestra.
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Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals, The Night Time is the Right Time, 1976 on Springboard.
Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals, The Night Time is the Right Time, 1976 on Springboard. Live recordings from Club a’Gogo in Newcastle UK, from 1963. First released in 1972 in France on BYG, also issued as Newcastle-on-Tyne, December 1963 by Charly Records. (There are two different blues musicians named Sonny Boy Williams- this is…
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Echo and the Bunnymen live at the House of Blues
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Crowded House, Dreamers Are Waiting, 2021 on BMG.
Crowded House, Dreamers Are Waiting, 2021 on BMG. Neil, Elroy, and Liam Finn plus Nick Seymour and Michael Froom. Loved Crowded House back in the day, and their various solo projects and spin outs too – happy to see new music from them (first since 2010). Via Newbury Comics
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Kristin Hersh, Wyatt at the Coyote Palace, 2016.
Kristin Hersh, Wyatt at the Coyote Palace, 2016. Originally published as a book plus 2xCD album, then a 2xLP vinyl issue by Happy Birthday To Me Records in 2017. My copy is the reissue from 2021 by Fire Records for Record Store Day 2021. Wyatt is Hersh’s son, who was exploring an abandoned apartment building…
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Pinetop Perkins, Live at Antone’s Vol. 1, 2000 on Antone’s Records.
Pinetop Perkins, Live at Antone’s Vol. 1, 2000 on Antone’s Records. My copy is the 2xLP reissue from 2015 through New West Records. Great live blues recorded in 1995 for @antonesnightclub 20th anniversary