Tag: 1970s
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Various Artists, History of British Blues (Volume One), 1973 on Sire
Various Artists, History of British Blues (Volume One), 1973 on Sire Great compilation I picked up at @mystery_train_records in Gloucester Includes Peter Green and John McVie with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers but also some lesser known folks
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Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records.
Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records. Follow up to the Old Grey Whistle Test sampler I posted a while back. Take Two is divided into a Great Britain record and United States of America record The UK one includes Dave Mason and Genesis but also Widowmaker, Camel,…
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Neil Young, Homegrown, 2020 on Reprise
Neil Young, Homegrown, 2020 on Reprise Neil Young’s 40th studio album. Recorded back in 1974 and 1975, considered for release around the time of Tonight’s the Night. Great set of songs, support from Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Robbie Robertson. Vinyl sounds great – my copy is a pressing by Record Industry
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Peter Tosh, Legalize It, 1976 on Columbia
Peter Tosh, Legalize It, 1976 on Columbia It’s 4:20 somewhere, right? This is a later pressing, but hard to date – 80s maybe. I’ve had it at least that long
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Hot Tuna, Double Dose, 1978 on Grunt
Hot Tuna, Double Dose, 1978 on Grunt Picked this live album up at Joe’s Albums last week – Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Bob Steeler, and Nick Buck Wonderful find
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Bud Powell, The Essen Jazz Festival Concert, 2018 on Black Lion / Org Music
Bud Powell, The Essen Jazz Festival Concert, 2018 on Black Lion / Org Music Recorded live in 1970 in Essen, [West] Germany. With Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke, and Coleman Hawkins (on side 2) Wonderful pressing
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs: The Tears of Technology, 2020 on Ace.
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs: The Tears of Technology, 2020 on Ace. Compilation covering 1978-1984, really mostly focused on 1979-1982 – critical years in the early “new” synthesizer era: Human League, Soft Cell, The Teardrop Explodes, China Crisis, OMD – lots of gems here
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Earl Hines, My Tribute To Louis, 1971 on Audiophile.
Earl Hines, My Tribute To Louis, 1971 on Audiophile. This copy is the 2019 remastered reissue by Org Music which I got via VNYL curation back in May – probably my favorite month of curated offerings from them. Great record and wonderful pressing Hines played with Armstrong starting in the 20s as part of the…
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Parliament Live, P. Funk Earth Tour, 1977 on Casablanca records.
Parliament Live, P. Funk Earth Tour, 1977 on Casablanca records. Make my Funk the P. Funk, I wants my Funk uncut
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Erroll Garner, Magician, 1974 on MPS.
Erroll Garner, Magician, 1974 on MPS. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please classics reissue from May 2020 – maybe my favorite from VMP so far. clean pressing, excellent remaster. You can hear Garner vocalizing while he plays on some tracks – feels like you are in the studio with him.
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Paul Simon, Self-Titled, 1972 on Columbia.
Paul Simon, Self-Titled, 1972 on Columbia. Second solo album, released after the split with Garfunkel. (His first solo recording was The Paul Simon Songbook, which came out in the UK in 1965) Such a great album in a long career of great albums.
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Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia.
Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia. My copy is a UK pressing but it was out in the US at the same time. Great funky blues bayou combo – kind of an alternate universe supergroup in the model of Cream or Blind Faith. At their best on a standard like…
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U.K. Squeeze, self-titled debut, 1978, A&M.
U.K. Squeeze, self-titled debut, 1978, A&M. U.K. Squeeze were known in the UK as Squeeze. My copy is on red translucent vinyl with promo labels. Yes, they made colored vinyl back in the 70s as well, it is not just a new hipster thing. Take Me I’m Yours and Strong In Reason are my favorites…
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Bob Dylan, New Morning, 1970 on Columbia
Bob Dylan, New Morning, 1970 on Columbia Via Academy Records in NYC
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Aerosmith, self-titled, 1973 on Columbia.
Aerosmith, self-titled, 1973 on Columbia. Required vinyl in the Boston rock canon. Original red Columbia labels, likely a Pittman pressing
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Bonnie Raitt, self-titled, 1971 on Warner Brothers.
Bonnie Raitt, self-titled, 1971 on Warner Brothers. Raitt’s debut album, recorded at an old summer camp on Enchanted Island in Lake Minnetonka Mine’s a later repressing based on the labels – 1973 to 1978 sometime. Fantastic beginning to a career still going strong Via Dyno Records in Newburyport, MA
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Fleetwood Mac, self-titled, 1975 on Reprise.
Fleetwood Mac, self-titled, 1975 on Reprise. Mine’s a 1977 pressing – sound is great. This is their second self-titled, and the first with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (making a strong debut with Rhiannon and Landslide). Via Listen Up Music in Natick, MA.
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Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis.
Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis. Their third full length, with: Hanging On the Telephone, One Way Or Another, Heart of Glass. Via Academy Records