Tag: 1970s
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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…
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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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Bob Dylan, Desire, 1976 on Columbia.
Bob Dylan, Desire, 1976 on Columbia. Love this LP. Hurricane and One More Cup of Coffee are faves. Scarlet Rivera on violin, Dom Cortese on Mandolin, Vincent Bell on Bellzouku, EmmyLou Harris on backing vocals. Via Mystery Train Records in Gloucester MA
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The Beatles, Let It Be, 1970 on Apple Records.
The Beatles, Let It Be, 1970 on Apple Records. This copy is from the 2021 reissue- the mices by Giles Martin and Sam OKelll, with extra LPs of outtakes and the Glyn Johns 1969 Get Back mix. Holds up extremely well Via @spinnaker_records on Cape Cod
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Betty Carter, What a Little Moonlight Can Do, 1976 on ABC Impulse!
Betty Carter, What a Little Moonlight Can Do, 1976 on ABC Impulse! Reissue of two earlier LPs, Out There With Betty Carter (1958) and The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (1960) as a 2 LP set. Via Island Music in Vineyard Haven
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George Benson, Bad Benson, 1974 on CTI Records.
George Benson, Bad Benson, 1974 on CTI Records. There’s a new documentary about Creed Taylor (who passed last week) and CTI on www.snapshotsfoundation.com in which Benson features prominently Great version of Take Five
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Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, 1975 on ABC Records.
Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, 1975 on ABC Records. Chicago origins funk band that mostly came to be known for Chaka Khan, as this album’s title suggests Sweet Thing and a cover of the Bee Gees Jive Talkin’ were the big singles
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Jeremy Steig, Fusion, 1972 on Groove Merchant.
Jeremy Steig, Fusion, 1972 on Groove Merchant. Continuing the Jazz flute trip I started with Herbie Mann at the Village Gate. Groove Merchant was started by Sonny Lester after he left United Artists This release incorporates his earlier LP Energy with a second LP of outtakes and other unreleased tracks from the same 1970 sessions.…
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Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 on Columbia.
Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 on Columbia. 2018 remaster reissue on 180g vinyl – sounds fantastic. Came to me via Amazon’s “The Golden Era” subscription club which I tried out for a bit. Normally I prefer finding original issues, but this one is very well done, and is a must have