Grateful Dead, Live / Dead, 1969 on Warner. My copy is from the 2020 Vinyl Me, Please Anthology: The Story Of The Grateful Dead. Dark Star, Saint Stephen,…
Darlingside, Fish Pond Fish, 2020 on More Doug Records. Third full length album from western Massachusetts Darlingside – baroque folk-pop, acoustic chamber rock, bucolic future folk, whatever you…
Grateful Dead, Reckoning, 1981 on Arista. My copy is from the @vinylmeplease anthology, The Story Of The Grateful Dead, on red and blue vinyl. One of my two…
Aretha Franklin, Soul ’69, 1969 on Atlantic. From the liner notes by Ritchie Yorke : “I find it impossible to select any especially effective cuts; each is constructed…
Mary Lattimore, Silver Ladders, 2020 on Ghostly International. Secretly Society record for October 2020, Lattimore’s latest LP Wonderful music to work to or to relax to
Dylan LeBlanc, Renegade, 2019 on ATO Records Dylan LeBlanc‘s fourth studio album and first on ATO. Produced by Dave Cobb – great fit of artist and production here….
Paul McCartney, McCartney II, 1980 on Columbia/MPL Paul McCartney‘s second solo album, with broad range of styles as he played with synths and recorded at home. “Dont go…
Dave Brubeck Trio With Gerry Mulligan & The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Erich Kunzel Conductor, Brubeck / Mulligan / Cincinnati, 1971 on Decca. Recorded May 1970 – based on…
Dinah Washington, For Lonely Lovers, 1960 on Mercury. Labels suggest my copy is a later repress, circa 1964-68. Inner sleeves have other Mercury releases from 1964 plus ads…
Billie Holiday, Music For Torching With Billie Holiday, 1955 on Clef, 1957 on Verve. Originally on Clef, then released on Verve (which absorbed Clef in 1956 – both…
Grateful Dead, Without a Net, 1990 on Arista I’ve got an original 1990 vinyl copy and this Vinyl Me, Please Anthology copy from 2020. Great version of “Eyes…
Various Artists, Flashdance (Original Soundtrack From the Motion Picture), 1983 on Casablanca One of the must have soundtracks of 80s cinema (alongside Footloose and The Breakfast Club). “She’s…
Donny Hathaway, Everything is Everything, 1970 on ATCO My copy is the @vinylmeplease classics reissue from 2020, pressed at from lacquers cut at @sterlingsound I only wish Hathaway…
Sam Cooke, My Kind of Blues, 1962 on RCA / Victor. German pressing by TeldecPress GmbH Great compilation of Sam Cooke on tunes less commonly associated with him,…