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  • Steve Earle & The Dukes, Guy, 2019 on New West.

    Steve Earle & The Dukes, Guy, 2019 on New West.

    Steve Earle & The Dukes, Guy, 2019 on New West. Tribute album for Earle’s mentor Guy Clark, who died in 2016. Cover art (as for so many Steve Earle records) by Tony Fitzpatrick

  • James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s.

    James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s.

    James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s. My copy is a 2015 New West reissue as a double LP with four bonus tracks. Great blues album, with a 6:47 Stormy Monday on side 3

  • Billy Bragg, Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, 1986 on Elektra.

    Billy Bragg, Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, 1986 on Elektra.

    Billy Bragg, Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, 1986 on Elektra. Title comes from a Mayakovsky poem printed on the inner liner – I appreciate much more now than I did at 16. Subtitled “The difficult third album” I think it may be his most successful and approachable

  • Simple Minds, Empires and Dance, 1980 on Zoom / Arista.

    Simple Minds, Empires and Dance, 1980 on Zoom / Arista.

    Simple Minds, Empires and Dance, 1980 on Zoom / Arista. My copy is a UK pressing on Zoom though I picked it up locally at Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain Faux Cyrillic does not imply support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Third album from Simple Minds, very European inspired album of kind of early synth…

  • The Clash, London Calling, 1979 on CBS/Epic.

    The Clash, London Calling, 1979 on CBS/Epic.

    The Clash, London Calling, 1979 on CBS/Epic. 2015 reissue by Columbia/Sony Music, sounds great. Feels appropriate today.

  • Donny Hathaway, Live, 1972 on ATCO.

    Donny Hathaway, Live, 1972 on ATCO.

    Donny Hathaway, Live, 1972 on ATCO. I’m a huge Donny Hathaway fan and am constantly on the hunt for original pressings, but this 2021 reissue sounds pretty great. It is possible it may be a digital cut to vinyl but it is very well done. (I’ll keep looking for an original pressing to compare it…

  • Oscar Peterson, Soul Español, 1968 on Limelight.

    Oscar Peterson, Soul Español, 1968 on Limelight.

    Oscar Peterson, Soul Español, 1968 on Limelight. Limelight was a Mercury subsidiary for well know Jazz artists – originally headed by Quincy Jones. Some folks see this as too trendy an LP, trying to jump on a samba / Latin bandwagon but I love it

  • Quincy Jones, This Is How I Feel About Jazz, 1957 on ABC Paramount.

    Quincy Jones, This Is How I Feel About Jazz, 1957 on ABC Paramount.

    Quincy Jones, This Is How I Feel About Jazz, 1957 on ABC Paramount. My copy is from the Vinyl Me, Please Anthology The Story Of Quincy Jones, which is delightful. Look at young Quincy’s serious jazz face on that cover. Great album from one of my favorite jazz eras

  • Typhoon, Sympathetic Magic, 2021 on Roll Call Records.

    Typhoon, Sympathetic Magic, 2021 on Roll Call Records.

    Typhoon, Sympathetic Magic, 2021 on Roll Call Records. Opaque Pink Vinyl edition of Typhoon’s latest – one of my favorite 2021 albums. Who could resist an album that opens with a song titled Sina Qua Nonentity?

  • Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux, 1993 on Warner Bros.

    Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux, 1993 on Warner Bros.

    Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux, 1993 on Warner Bros. My copy is part of the Vinyl Me, Please Anthology: The Story of Quincy Jones. Recorded in 1991 at the Montreux Jazz Festival which Quincy Jones co-produced in the early 90s. Montreux is in the État De Vaud on Lake Geneva – never…

  • Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland: Showdown!, 1986 on Alligator Records.

    Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland: Showdown!, 1986 on Alligator Records.

    Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland: Showdown!, 1986 on Alligator Records. One of Alligator Records’ most successful releases.

  • Fiddle Fever, Fiddle Fever, 1981 on Flying Fish.

    Fiddle Fever, Fiddle Fever, 1981 on Flying Fish.

    Fiddle Fever, Fiddle Fever, 1981 on Flying Fish. Is Fiddle Fever transmissable? That’s an awful lot of fiddles. They put out two LPs plus a Best Of CD

  • Raydio, Raydio, 1978 on Arista.

    Raydio, Raydio, 1978 on Arista.

    Raydio, Raydio, 1978 on Arista. Self-titled debut for the band fronted by Ray Parker Jr. of “Ghostbusters” fame (I ain’t afraid of no ghost!) You can find “Is this a love thing” on YouTube- I’d have gone with the parenthetical subtitle “(or is this just a sex thing)” but maybe too risqué in 1978? Some…

  • Leo Kottke, Mudlark, 1971 on Capitol Records.

    Leo Kottke, Mudlark, 1971 on Capitol Records.

    Leo Kottke, Mudlark, 1971 on Capitol Records. Kottke’s first LP on Capitol, fourth full length

  • Oscar Peterson Trio, Put On A Happy Face, 1966 on Verve.

    Oscar Peterson Trio, Put On A Happy Face, 1966 on Verve.

    Oscar Peterson Trio, Put On A Happy Face, 1966 on Verve. My favorite incarnation with Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown – one of four LPs of music recorded at the London House in Chicago in 1961.

  • Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol.

    Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol.

    Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol. My copy is an early 70s reissue – Sinatra’s first collaboration with Billy May (arranger and conductor). A little 50s era product placement for TWA?

  • McCartney III Imagined, 2021 on Capitol.

    McCartney III Imagined, 2021 on Capitol.

    McCartney III Imagined, 2021 on Capitol. Compilation reimagining McCartney III, with contributions from St. Vincent, Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, Anderson .Paak, Damon Albarn. Love these kinds of compilations, and thank god this time it isn’t a memorial tribute.

  • Nikki Lane, All Or Nothin’, 2014 on New West.

    Nikki Lane, All Or Nothin’, 2014 on New West.

    Nikki Lane, All Or Nothin’, 2014 on New West. Lane’s second full length, followup to 2011’s Walk Of Shame. Produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys who also gets cowriting credit on five songs and duets on “Love’s On Fire”