Tag: 1976
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Joan Armatrading, Joan Armatrading, 1976 on A&M.
Joan Armatrading, Joan Armatrading, 1976 on A&M. Part of a collection purchased through Everything But The House
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Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, 1976 on Fantasy.
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, 1976 on Fantasy. Billed as “Featuring John Fogerty” and with the edited (shorter) version of Grapevine that would become a single. A must have certainly. Though i love original 70s pressings, my copy is 2021 vinyl pressing – a Craft Recordings reissue pressed by GZ Media –…
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Phil Ochs, Chords of Fame, 1976 on A&M.
Phil Ochs, Chords of Fame, 1976 on A&M. Political folk in the tradition of Seeger Guthrie et al, 2xLP gateway with great liner notes by Ed Sanders via Everything But The House
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Dan Hicks, It Happened One Bite, 1976 on Warner Bros.
Dan Hicks, It Happened One Bite, 1976 on Warner Bros. Soundtrack to a movie never made – great songwriting as you’d expect. via Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain
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Jorge Ben, África Brasil, 1976 on Phillips.
Jorge Ben, Ãfrica Brasil, 1976 on Phillips. My copy isnthe @vinylmeplease reissue via Universal Music Special Markets. Love this album – from the opening notes of Umbabarauma to the end of Zumbi
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Nat Adderley Septet, Don’t Look Back, 1976 on Steeplechase.
Nat Adderley Septet, Don’t Look Back, 1976 on Steeplechase. My copy is a later reissue 180 gram “audiophile” edition (not sure from when exactly) pressed somewhere in Germany. SteepleChase was (is?) a Danish label founded by Nils Winther who also produced this LP (and many of their releases). The septet included Adderley (cornet), Buddy Williams…
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Leon Ware, Musical Massage, 1976 on Gordy
Leon Ware, Musical Massage, 1976 on Gordy Ware created the original demo for “I Want You” which become a hit for Marvin Gaye – Ware put together new songs (with Hal Davis producing) to put out this album. (Also Quicy Jones cowriting on Body Heat, vocal accompaniment by Gaye on Holiday, Ray Parker Jr on…
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Bud Powell, The Genius of Bud Powell, 1976 on Verve.
Bud Powell, The Genius of Bud Powell, 1976 on Verve. My copy is a later “Polygram Classics” reissue – runout etchings and Polygram Classics markings suggest 1983 or later. The material itself goes back to “The Genius of Powell” and “Bud Powell’s Moods,” both 1957 Verve releases, of sessions from 1950, 1951, and 1956. Via…
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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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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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Bob Dylan, Hard Rain, 1976 on Columbia
Bob Dylan looking like I feel. Hard Rain was captured on the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue, so T Bone Burnett, Gary Burke, Scarlet Rivera, Steven Soles, Rob Srober and Mick Ronson (from Bowie’s Spiders From Mars) on Maggie’s Farm. There was a TV special on youtube from Fort Collins with a different…