Various Aritsts, Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits, 2019 on Dualtone. Three sided release (4th side is just an etching). Great collection of Tom Waits…
Various Artists, Bonnie 2ropical, Paradise Palms 2017. Followup to Bonnie Tropical (2016) – on the house label of Paradise Palms – a bar/vegetarian cafe/record shop in Edinburgh. “A…
Now This Is Music, 1984 on EMI out of the Netherlands. First in a series of Dutch copilations which appeared between 1984 and 1989 – basically the Dutch…
Slash: The Early Sessions, 1983 on Slash Records. The Blasters, X, Rank and File, Violent Femmes, Fear, The Germs. Great cover art directed by Lou Beach. Via Planet…
Hootenanny, 1990 on Cooking Vinyl (UK). Label sampler with Bruce Cockburn, Boiled in Lead, Weddings Parties Anything, and the Colorblind James Experience and others. Cooking Vinyl is still…
Single Releases 2010 Volume 2, 2011 on Third Man Records Great compilation: Karen Elson , The Dead Weather, The Secret Sisters, Laura Marling (covering Needle and the Damage…
Days of Wine and Vinyl, 1972 on Warner Brothers Label sampler, with 5 page booklet on the artists included. Tir Na Nog, Arlo Guthrie, Tim Buckley, Jesse Winchester,…
Mutant Pop 78/79 on PVC Records, 1980 Mekons, Scars, Human League, 2.3, The Flowers, Gang of Four. Collected singles from the Fast Product imprint out of Edinburgh
Universal Love: Wedding Songs Re-imagined, 2018 on Legacy Partnership between Sony Music and MGM Resorts for 2018 – Bob Dylan, Ben Gibbard, St. Vincent, and Valerie June (plus…
No Wave, 1978 compilation on A&M. Translucent blue vinyl was a thing even in the seventies Squeeze, The Police, The Dickies, The Stranglers, Joe Jackson – great collection
The Breakfast Club, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1985 on A&M. One of the movies I’ve seen the most in my life (alongside Princess Bride and Stop Making Sense)….
Via ListenUp Music in Natick I picked up this five record Motown Anniversary Collection for < $20. Excellent condition vinyl, Electrosound Midwest pressing – Silver Eagle Records was…
Jakob Dylan with guests including Norah Jones and Cat Power Soundtrack from Echo in the Canyon a documentary by Andrew Slater. Via Music Connection in Manchester NH
Another find from Honest John’s in London – a collection called “If You’re Not Part of the Solution . . . Soul, Politics, and Spirituality in Jazz 1967…
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…