Tag: Antone's Records

Pat MacDonald and The Essentials, Essentialist Propaganda, 1983 on Counter-Pop

Pat MacDonald would go on to be one half of Timbuk 3 with his wife Barbara Kooyman, listed here as Barbara K. MacDonald. “Too Much Sex (Not Enough…

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, He’s the DJ, I’m The Rapper, 1988 on Jive

Second album from the duo of Jeffrey Townes (aka DJ Jazzy Jeff) and Will Smith (aka The Fresh Prince), including “Parents Just Don’t Understand” which won the first…

Re-Flex, The Politics of Dancing, 1983 on Capitol

Debut album from English new-wave band Re-Flex, on EMI in the UK but Capitol in the US. Produced by John Punter who produced Roxy Music and Japan. Re-Flex…

The Special AKA, Nelson Mandela, 1984 on Two Tone

Extended version 12″ single from The Specials (Special AKA), produced by Elvis Costello. One of my favorite early 80s ska protest songs. Now dated in its reference but…

The Robert Cray Band, Who’s Been Talkin’, 1980 on Tomato

Debut album from Robert Cray and band (Curtis Salgado, Richard Cousins, and Dave Olson). Tomato was a NY based indie label started in the late 70s by Kevin…

Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie, 1975 on Pablo

Pablo records, with a logo and name inspired by Picasso, was started by Norman Granz (who also produced this record) in the early seventies. There’s a ton of…

Randy Newman, Live, 1971 on Reprise

Randy Newman recorded at The Bitter End, Sept 17-19th, 1970, and released in 1971. Only his self-titled debut (1968) and “12 Songs” (April 1970) had been released at…

John Prine, Sweet Revenge, 1973 on Atlantic

Prine is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. This was his third full-length, and third on Atlantic. Produced by Arif Mardin, it was mostly recorded in…

Peter Buck, I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again, 2014 on Mississippi/Change Records

The follow up to Buck’s self-titled debut release, also on Mississippi Records out of Portland OR. Buck works again here with Scott McCaughey, William Rieflin, Corin Tucker, and…

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Sky is Crying, 1991 on Epic

This was the fifth and final studio album from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, compiling tracks cut earlier and released more than a year after Vaughan’s death…

Pinetop Perkins, Live at Antone’s Vol. 1, 2000 on Antone’s Records.

Pinetop Perkins, Live at Antone’s Vol. 1, 2000 on Antone’s Records. My copy is the 2xLP reissue from 2015 through New West Records. Great live blues recorded in…

James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s.

James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s. My copy is a 2015 New West reissue as a double LP with four bonus tracks. Great blues album, with…