Tag: 1970s
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Freddie King, My Feeling for the Blues, 1970 on Cotillion
One of the “three kings” of the blues, this is King’s second album after signing with Atlantic (Cotillion is a subsidiary) before moving to Shelter records (Leon Russell’s label). My copy is a 2021 pressing from Vinyl Me, Please, with listening notes by Andrew Winistorfer and new lacquers cut from the original types by Ryan…
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Gram Parsons, Grievous Angel, 1974 on Reprise
My copy is a 2021 Vinyl Me, Please reissue, on what they call Turquoise Galaxy vinyl, with listening notes by Jonathan Bernstein. Released posthumously in 1974, with vocals by Emmylou Harris (with whom he’d been touring in 1973) and the TCB Band (Ronnie Tutt, James Burton, Emory Gordy, and Glen Hardin, plus pedal steel from…
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John Mayall / Jerry McGee / Larry Taylor, Memories, 1971 on Polydor
More blues without drums from Mayall accompanied by Jerry McGee on dobro & guitar and Larry Taylor (from Canned Heat) on bass. Recorded in 1971 in LA. Via a Thread & Groove record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA.
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Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy, 1973 on Atlantic
As many record collectors know, it’s increasingly rare to find a reasonably priced Led Zeppelin LP in original pressing – I found this one at Thread & Groove record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell – in pretty decent shape. Monster album – the fifth full length, with Over the Hills and Far Away,…
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David Bromberg, Demon in Disguise, 1972 on Columbia.
Second full length from Bromberg. Love the version of Mr. Bojangles here maybe even more than Jerry Jeff Walker’s original. Also a great version of Tennessee Waltz. With Andy Statman, Tom Sheehan, Ken Kosek. Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann and Keith Godchaux join on Sharon, plus Phil Lesh on Demon in Disguise. My copy from a…
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Deodato / Airto, In Concert, 1974 on CTI.
Brazilian Jazz greats Eumir Deodato and Airto Moreira, recorded at Madison Square Garden April 20th, 1973. That’s the Steely Dan “Do It Again.” Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. Found this copy in a local thrift shop – not sure what happened to the copy I had growing up but lost somewhere along the way –…
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Stevie Wonder, Stevie Wonder’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2
1971 Tamla compilation – mine’s a mid-70s era reissue. There was a first “Greatest Hits” in 1968, and many many more to follow. I acquired this as part of an Everything But The House lot – great find.
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Ry Cooder, Bop Till You Drop, 1979 on Warner Bros.
Ry Cooder, Bop Till You Drop, 1979 on Warner Bros. Said to have been the first digitally recorded major label album in popular music – 3M 33 track digital machine.
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Ike & Tina Turner and The Ikettes, Come Together, 1970 on Liberty.
Ike & Tina Turner and The Ikettes, Come Together, 1970 on Liberty. Great time capsule release from a great year in music. The title tune but also covers of I Want To Take You Higher and Honky Tonk Women, plus some very 1970 original “Ike” songs like Young and Dumb, Too Much Woman (For a…
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Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978 on Sire.
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978 on Sire. Second LP (following Talking Heads ’77). Such a great record – Stay Hungry, For Artists Only (“I don’t have to prove that I am creative”), that cover of Take Me To The River – part of peak era TH Via Mystic Disc in CT
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Jimmy Reed, Let The Bossman Speak!, 1971 on Blues on Blues.
Jimmy Reed, Let The Bossman Speak!, 1971 on Blues on Blues. Blues on Blues was a label founded and run by Al Smith out of Chicago – this was the second LP released on the label
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Bob Dylan and The Band, The Basement Tapes, 1975 on Columbia.
Bob Dylan and The Band, The Basement Tapes, 1975 on Columbia. Mostly recorded in 1967 in the basement of the Big Pink house in Saugerties NY but not released until 1975 A must-have for any Dylan fan – my copy is a Canadian pressing I picked up in Vineyard Haven at Island Music
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Nina Simone, The Best of Nina Simone, 1970 on RCA Victor.
Nina Simone, The Best of Nina Simone, 1970 on RCA Victor. Great versions of I Shall Be Released and Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne as well as I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free.
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Chic, Risqué, 1979 on Atlantic.
Chic, Risqué, 1979 on Atlantic. Side one track one: Good Times. That bass line! Classic Nile Rodgers Bernard Edwards Via Island Music in Vineyard Haven.
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Bill Withers, +’Justments, 1974 on Sussex.
Bill Withers, +’Justments, 1974 on Sussex. My copy is a 2021 Vinyl Me, Please reissue with listening notes by Briana Younger Withers’ 3rd LP and last on Sussex before signing with Columbia.
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Richie Havens, The Great Blind Degree, 1971 on Stormy Forest.
Richie Havens, The Great Blind Degree, 1971 on Stormy Forest. Covers of Fire & Rain, Tommy, Teach Your Children – Havens just coming off Woodstock celebrity
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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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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…