Category: music
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Faye Webster, I Know I’m Funny Haha, 2021 on Secretly Canadian
Faye Webster, I Know I’m Funny Haha, 2021 on Secretly Canadian Webster’s fourth album, via Secretly Society for July 2021, on Blue Galaxy vinyl Produced by Webster and Drew Vandenburg Really smart, dare I say funny, indie singer songwriter – a Courtney Barnett from the ATL?
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Tracey Thorn, Tinsel and Lights, 2012 on Merge
Tracey Thorn, Tinsel and Lights, 2012 on Merge Too early for holiday music? Great set of tunes by Tracey Thorn (of Everything But The Girl) including a cover of “River” by Joni Mitchell.
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Howard Jones, Dream Into Action, 1985 on Elektra/WEA.
Howard Jones, Dream Into Action, 1985 on Elektra/WEA. Second studio LP from Jones, with Afrodiziak, the TKO Horns, and brother Martin Jones on bass. Things Can Only Get Better, Bounce Right Back, Like to Get To Know You Well, No One is to Blame – great set of tunes. I saw him in ’85 at…
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Willie Nelson & Ray Price, San Antonio Rose, 1980 on Columbia.
Willie Nelson & Ray Price, San Antonio Rose, 1980 on Columbia. I knew Willie Nelson had done a 2016 tribute album for Ray Price, who died in 2013 (For the Good Times) but didn’t know they’d put out this duet LP in 1980. Don’t You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me), I’ll Be There (If…
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Featuring Theodore Pendergrass, To Be True, 1975 on Philadelphia International Records.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Featuring Theodore Pendergrass, To Be True, 1975 on Philadelphia International Records. Beautiful mid-seventies Philly soul from Teddy Pendergrass backed by MFSB via Residency Records, Salem MA
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Hot Tuna, Burgers, 1972 on Grunt.
Hot Tuna, Burgers, 1972 on Grunt. Look at that 1972 swagger on Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Sammy Piazza, and Papa John Creach. Plus Nick Buck on a couple of tracks. via Deep Thoughts, Jamaica Plain.
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Paul Desmond, Summertime, 1969 on A&M / CTI.
Paul Desmond, Summertime, 1969 on A&M / CTI. Desmond wrote “Take Five” and played with the Dave Brubeck Quartet as well as Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker. CtI was an A&M imprint started by Creed Taylor The cover of Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da alone is worth the price of admission but I also love the Someday My…
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Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady, 1958 on Verve
Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady, 1958 on Verve An original 1958 mono pressing – one of my favorite recent finds. With Ray Brown on bass and Gene Gammage on drums via Everything But The House
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The White Stripes, White Blood Cells XX, 2021 on Third Man Records
The White Stripes, White Blood Cells XX, 2021 on Third Man Records Not an anniversary reissue but a companion to 2001’s White Blood Cells LP. One LP of demos, outtakes, alternates, and LP live in Louisville KY in September 2001, plus a DVD of the Making Of. Great package (this was part of the Third…
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Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold, 2019 on Mom + Pop.
Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold, 2019 on Mom + Pop. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please edition with original artwork by Charlie Engman Love this album – may be my favorite from Sleater-Kinney. But then I also liked the most recent Dinosaur Jr. So maybe I’m just getting old. Production by St. Vinvent and…
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Terrence Trent D’Arby, Terrence Trent D’Arby’s Neither Fish Nor Flesh: A Soundtrack Of Love, Faith, Hope, and Destruction, 1989 on Columbia.
Terrence Trent D’Arby, Terrence Trent D’Arbys Neither Fish Nor Flesh: A Soundtrack Of Love, Faith, Hope, and Destruction, 1989 on Columbia. Most folks know TTD from “Wishing Well” or the album it came from (Introducing The Hardline According to . . .), but this is a really excellent and overlooked follow-up. Definitely a record I…
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The Call, Modern Romans, 1983 on Mercury
The Call, Modern Romans, 1983 on Mercury Michael Been, Greg Freedman, Scott Musick, Tom Ferrier, Steve Huddleston, and Garth Hudson ( of The Band) – this was the album before Reconciled – which is where I first became aware of them Via Deep Thoughts, Jamaica Plain
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Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good, 1977 on A&M
Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good, 1977 on A&M With James Bradley Jr, Charles Meeks, Grant Geissman, and Chris Vadala Was one of the LPs that inspired me to play the trumpet in Jr high and high school. I think I still know the fingering for the title track though I probably couldn’t actually play it…
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John Mayall, U.S.A. Union, 1970 on Polydor.
John Mayall, U.S.A. Union, 1970 on Polydor. The great British bluesman recording in L.A. with Harvey Mandel, and Larry Taylor from Canned Heat and violinist Don Harris – continuing Mayall’s drum-less blues period via Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain
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Nina Simone, High Priestess of Soul, 1967 on Philips.
Nina Simone, High Priestess of Soul, 1967 on Philips. From the Queen of Jazz (Ella, yesterday) to the High Priestess of Soul. This is a killer collection of some jazz standards (Duke Ellington, Nat Adderley & Oscar Brown) plus some Simone compositions My copy is a 2016 reissue pressed at Record Technology Inc. Via Record…
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Ella Fitzgerald, Like Someone In Love, 1957 on Verve
Ella Fitzgerald, Like Someone In Love, 1957 on Verve. Black and silver Verve labels without mention of MGM Ella with Frank DeVol and his Orchestra – classic Via Everything But The House
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Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee, 2021 on Dead Oceans
Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee, 2021 on Dead Oceans My copy via Secretly Society Most recent LP from Japanese Breakfast (also author of Crying in H Mart, being made into a film).
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Ludacris, Word of Mouf, 2001 on Def Jam South.
Ludacris, Word of Mouf, 2001 on Def Jam South. My copy is the 2021 reissue from @vinylmeplease Rollout, Area Code, Move B***h, Saturday (Oooh Oooh). One of the defining moments of dirty south hip hop