Tag: Salem MA
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Editors, In Dream, 2015 on Play It Again Sam.
Editors, In Dream, 2015 (Gold Vinyl) on Play It Again Sam. Love Tom Smith’s voice and this direction for the band Also a beautiful pressing & package. Via Record Exhange, Salem MA
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
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Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Dig Yourself, 1985 on Rounder
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Dig Yourself, 1985 on Roiunder Their second album. Turns out Barrence is a local and I run into him frequently at The Record Exchange (the Salem MA one) (or did, pre-social-distancing) but I’ve had this since the 80s. I believe “dig yourself” was their biggest charting hit, but the whole…
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Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice, 2017 on Matador Records
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice, 2017 on Matador Records. Barnett may just be my favorite new artist of the decade, and Vile has been making consistently great music since the early aughts. Via Residency Records, Salem MA
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Billy Bragg, Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC, 2019 on Cooking Vinyl
So many great tunes and lyrics here “In the end it took me a dictionary / to find out the meaning of unrequited” “I saw two shooting stars last night / I wished on them but they were only satellites / it’s wrong to wish on space hardware / I wish, I wish, I wish…
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Townes Van Zandt, Our Mother the Mountain, 1969 on Poppy / Tomato records.
My copy is a 2007 Fat Possum pressing. Some folks don’t like the production here by Jack Clement, but I love this record. Via Residency Records, Salem MA
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Finds from yesterday at Residency Records
Nice haul yesterday at Residency Records
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Headed in to town today
Headed in to town today
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The Black Keys, Let’s Rock, 2019 on Nonesuch / Easy Eye Sound
After a bunch of older albums, something new. @theblackkeys om white vinyl via The Record Exhange in Salem MA
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Townes Van Zandt, Live at The Old Quarter, Houston Texas, 1977 on Tomato / 2016 on Fat Possum
Great @fatpossum reissue of a 1977 Townes Van Zandt release (of a 1973 gig). via Record Exchange, Salem MA
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Morrissey, California Son, 2019 on Étienne
New Morrissey, a covers record including Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Carly Simon and others. On limited edition “sky blue” vinyl – found at The Record Exhange Salem, MA Thanks @thetomhummer for the instagram inspiration posting what he is listening to
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Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test – Test Pressing, 1980 on Super Beeb.
Record store folks tell me they have a hard time selling “various artist” compilations but I always enjoy them. Picked this up a few weeks back at The Record Exchange in Salem.
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Xmas in salem
Xmas in salem
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Salem harbor, marblehead
Salem harbor, marblehead