Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis. Their third full length, with: Hanging On the Telephone, One Way Or Another, Heart of Glass. Via Academy Records
Tom Morello The Nightwatchman, World Wide Rebel Songs, 2011 on New West Would have been great to see Tom Morello and Rage Against the Machine at Boston Calling…
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…
Guadalcanal Diary, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, 1984 on DB records. My copy is the 1985 repressing on Elektra. Murray Attaway, Jeff Wallls (who passed…
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, New Orleans Volume 1, 1977 on Columbia Masterworks / CBS Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Preservation Hall Initiative have set up a way to…
Art Tatum, The Essential Art Tatum, 1962 on Verve Tatum died in 1956, these recordings are from sessions in 1953, 1954, and 1956 Via Listen Up Music in…
Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses), The Low Highway, 2013 on New West Including Allison Moorer Steve Earle’s new album, Ghosts of West Virginia, is out today
The Young Snakes, Bark Along With The Young Snakes, 1982 on Ambiguous Records. Aimee Mann , Douglas Vargas, and Michael Evans. Extra credit for a pre-internet cat meme…
Small Faces, self-titled, compilation, 1972 on New World. No self-respecting Mod would be without at least one Small Faces record. Track A6, which is supposed to be “What’s…
Koerner, Ray & Glover; Blues, Rags and Hollees, 1963 on Elektra. My copy is a 1969/1970 repressing, and the outer sleeve has seen better days but the record’s…
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…
John Vanderslice, Life And Death of an American Fourtracker, 2002 on Barsuk My copy is from the 2009 repressing by Afternoon Records Kyoto Pond is only on the…
The Art of Noise, Into Battle With The Art Of Noise, 1983 (UK)/1984(US) on Island/ZTT A single, EP, or album depending on your perspective. Cover art by Jan…
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
Crosby, Stills & Nash, CSN, 1977 on Atlantic. This is the cover with the “serious” photo (first pressing) not the later photo with them laughing and smiling Dark…
What’s New (1983), Lush Life (1984), and For Sentimental Reasons (1986) A great trio of platinum albums by Linda Ronstadt with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra on Asylum/Warner Bros….
Ben Harper & Charlie Musslewhite, No Mercy In This Land, 2018 on Anti- Followup to their 2013 collaboration Get Up! “The righteous and the wretched, the holy and…
Paul Young, No Parlez, 1983 on Columbia. My copy is a Canadian pressing. Debut studio album including covers of “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again” (Joy Division) and…