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Archie James Cavanaugh, Black and White Raven, 1980 on Black and White Raven, Inc.

Self-released in 1980 but reissued by the Numero Group, Black and White Raven mixes Yacht Rock, Disco, and Gospel with some flavor of Cavanaugh’s native Tlingit heritage. Lots…

Neil Young, Harvest, 1972 on Reprise

Definitely one of my desert island discs (unless I can cheat and count Decade as one release), Harvest came out in 1972. This would be an absolute classic…

Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, 1966 on Columbia

Dylan’s catalog is so extensive and so amazing it’s hard to keep track. Most of it just feels like it’s always just been there – part of the…

Naughty By Nature, Naughty By Nature, 1991 on Tommy Boy

Though self-titled, this is actually their second album together, the first (Independent Leaders) being released under the artist name The New Style. The unavoidable massive hit here was…

Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line, 1971 on Hilltop / Pickwick.

Labelled as Pickwick/33 on the cover, by arrangement with Share records, but then with Hilltop yellow labels – discount reissue of material previously released on Sun Records. (Share…

Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, 1967 on Atlantic

My copy is a 2022 reissue by Vinyl Me, Please as a part of their Essentials track. It was actually Franklin’s tenth studio album but her first release…

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Hard Travelin’: songs by Woody Guthrie and others, 1977 on Fantasy

This is really a 2xLP reissue of two Prestige records: Jack Elliott Sings The Songs of Woody Guthrie (1960) and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (1961). Fantasy purchased the catalog…

De La Soul, Stakes Is High, 1996 on Tommy Boy

So happy to see De La Soul’s catalog get reissued with quality new pressings. Three Feet High and Rising was one of my favorite hip hop albums of…

Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On, 1971 on Tamla.

My copy is a late 90s reissue on 180g vinyl with replicated artwork, which I picked up at a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell. This…

Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park, 2013 on Mercury

My copy is the 2023 Vinyl Me Please reissue (in the VMP Essentials, not VMP Country track) on “green galaxy” vinyl. Love Musgraves’ songwriting – this was her…

Willie Nelson, Country Willie: His Own Songs, 1965 on RCA Victor

Nelson’s third LP, and his first for RCA Victor. Look how clean cut he is here, long before outlaw Willie. My copy is part of the Vinyl Me…

Nancy Sinatra, Boots, 1966 on Reprise.

Sinatra’s debut full-length on Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label, produced by Lee Hazlewood and arranged & conducted by Billy Strange. My copy is one of the Light in the…

Null and Void, Happiness and Contempt, 1980 on M.A.O. Records.

Null and Void were a self-described “early 80s SoCal synth wave band.” This was their debut EP, recorded at Devon Sound – it’s been reissued by Medical Records…

Johnnie Taylor, Wanted: One Soul Singer, 1967 on Stax

Taylor replaced Sam Cooke in The Soul Stirrers before becoming a solo artist, and went on to have a big it in the mid-seventies with “Disco Lady” (1976)….

Lucinda Williams, Happy Woman Blues, 1980 on Folkways (FTS 31067)

My copy is a 2019 reissue on what is now called Smithsonian Folkways (the Smithsonian acquired Folkways in 1987 from the estate of Moses Asch). This was Williams’…

Death Cab for Cutie, Transatlanticism, 2003 on Barsuk

Death Cab’s monumental breakout album. My copy is a 20th anniversary 2023 reissue by Vinyl Me Please on red marble vinyl, with listening notes by Sean Nelson (from…

Prince Paul, Prince Among Thieves, 1999 on Tommy Boy

Another excellent reissue by Vinyl Me Please in their Rap & Hip Hop track. Prince Paul was a major producer of 80s and 90s hip hop. I came…

Pylon, Chomp, 1983 on DB Recs.

My copy is a 2020 reissue on New West Records. Pylon is one of the bands more felt by its influence than its direct fans – but definitely…

Clem Snide, The Ghost of Fashion, 2001 on Cooking Vinyl

Originally released (on CD) by SpinART in the US and Cooking Vinyl in Europe, then released in 2011 on vinyl by Microfiche Records. My copy is a 2022…

Johnny Griffin, The Man I Love, 1973 on Black Lion Records

This LP, recorded at the Montmartre Jazzhuis in Copenhagen in 1967, was originally issued on Polydor in 1969 in the UK, but later in 1973 by Black Lion…