Tag: 1975
Jeff Beck is a guitarists’ guitarist – constantly named by other greats as one of the greatest but not given quite the same public acclaim. This 1975 album…
I first discovered Abbey Lincoln via Vinyl Me Please’s reissue of It’s Magic from 1958, in the VMP Classics Series. This album was a followup to that, her…
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen on the fourth full length studio album from Steely Dan. This was the first album after the departure of Skunk Baxter and Jim…
Mid-Seventies Bowie, with guests like Earl Slick, John Lennon, David Sanborn, abd Luther Vandross (who also did the vocal arrangements). Bowie called this “Plastic Soul” and he recorded…
Franks is an interesting figure – from my pov very over looked these days, but quite successful at the time. He was the center of the so-called “Quiet…
This was the follow up to Shotgun Willie, and was a commercial and critical breakthrough as Nelson moved away from RCA (with two albums on Atlantic in between)…
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…
Big Bill Broonzy, Superpak / Big Bill Broonzy, circa 1975 on Trip Records. Superpak series from Trip Records- released in the UK as “All Them Blues”
Loretta Lynn, Back to the Country, 1975 in MCA. My copy is a 2022 Vinyl Me, Please reissue. Another classic Loretta, this one with “The Pill” which feels…
Leon Redbone, On the Track, 1975 on Warner Bros. Love everything Leon Redbone released.
The Isley Brothers, The Heat Is On, 1975 on T-Neck Records. T-Neck was a label the Isley Brothers founded, named after Teaneck, NJ – Distributed at this point…
Oscar Peterson & Harry Edison, Oscar Peterson & Harry Edison, 1975 on Pablo Records. Another excellent mid seventies jazz record on the label Norman Granz founded in 1973….
Duke Ellington and Ray Brown, This One’s For Blanton, 1975 on Pablo Records. This is a beautifully recorded tribute album to Duke Ellington bassist Jimmy Blanton (who died…
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…
Al Kooper, Al’s Big Deal / Unclaimed Freight: An Al Kooper Anthology, 1975 on Columbia. Al Kooper was a co-founder Blood Sweat & Tears, played with the Blues…
Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 1975 on Preservation Hall records. My copy is a 1976 reissue with lacquers cut at Trutone Mastering Labs. Recorded at…
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…
John Prine, Common Sense, 1975 on Atlantic. Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard, He Was in Heaven Before He Died. So many great songs on…
Talking Heads, The CBS Demos, from 1975. (Unofficial) This is a fantastic bootleg of the pre-Jerry Harrison Talking Heads showing just how great they were out of the…
Maybe my favorite movie soundtrack (it’s either this or Stop Making Sense). 1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show Still showing at The Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis the last Saturday…