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Ben Lee, Ripe, 2007 on New West Great album with guest spots by Sara Watkins, Mandy Moore, Rachel Yamagata, Benmont Tench Asks the eternal question “What would Jay-Z…
Blancmange, Don’t Tell Me, 1984 on London Records (uk pressing). 12″ single, b-side is “Get Out of That.” Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe, my favourite electropop duo named…
Bob Dylan, New Morning, 1970 on Columbia Via Academy Records in NYC
The Alarm, Declaration, 1984 on IRS Records. Look at that 1984 hair – I think Eddie MacDonald set the bar for my 14 year old attempts at big…
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…
Gene Loves Jezebel, Discover, 1986 on Geffen. Saw them on tour in August 1987 at Northrup Auditorium with Echo & the Bunnymen and New Order – quite a…
Aerosmith, self-titled, 1973 on Columbia. Required vinyl in the Boston rock canon. Original red Columbia labels, likely a Pittman pressing
The Stooges, Self-Titled, 1969 on Elektra. My copy is the 2020 Vinyl Me, Please reissue of the John Cale Mix. I’ve really taken to these mixes and this…
Lomond Campbell, Black River Promise, 2016 on Triassic Tusk It has since been issued by Heavenly Recordings Lomond Campbell aka Ziggy Campbell was part of Edinburgh art collective…
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…
Bonnie Raitt, self-titled, 1971 on Warner Brothers. Raitt’s debut album, recorded at an old summer camp on Enchanted Island in Lake Minnetonka Mine’s a later repressing based on…
Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan, Two of a Mind, 1962 on RCA Victor. Mine’s actually the 2016 reissue by Org Music, which is a Pallas pressing and sounds…
Snide Rhythms, self-titled, 2012 on The Bonjour Branch. Picked this up at Paradise Palms in Edinburgh late last year, mostly just because of the cover. What a great…
Patterson Hood, Killers and Stars, 2004 on New West Originally recorded in 2001 and released in 2004; released on vinyl in 2014. Picked this up before the holidays…
Fleetwood Mac, self-titled, 1975 on Reprise. Mine’s a 1977 pressing – sound is great. This is their second self-titled, and the first with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks…
The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl, 1984 on Sire. Third Pretenders studio album, recorded after the deaths of James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. Middle of the Road, Chain Gang,…
13th Floor Elevators, Fire In My Bones, 1985 on Texas Archive Recordings. Side: A live from the “Sump N’ Else” TV show (Dallas, 1966). Side B a mix…
The Lone Bellow, self-titled, 2013 on Descendant Records Debut album from Brooklyn Americana/alt-country trio Via In Your Ear, Allston
UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records. Opens with “Tyler” (about Gary Tyler, sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, who served 41 years before being released in…
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…