Tag: vinyl
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UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records.
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 2016), and includes: King (a tribute to MLK), Burden of Shame (“bloody deeds have been done in my name”) and Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit. Resonating with me…
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Slash: The Early Sessions, 1983 on Slash Records.
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 Records in Cambridge
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Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis.
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
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Tom Morello The Nightwatchman, World Wide Rebel Songs, 2011 on New West
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 this last weekend (they were originally on the bill) Hoping the tour resumes at some point
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Hootenanny, 1990 on Cooking Vinyl (UK)
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 an indie UK label Via Elvis Shakespeare in Edinburgh On my 50th birthday, an album from the year I turned 20.
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Guadalcanal Diary, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, 1984 on DB Records
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 in 2019), Rhett Crowe, and John Poe. Another Georgia indie band from the early 80s, though they were from Marietta not Athens. Originally signed to DB records…
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band, New Orleans Volume 1, 1977 on Columbia Masterworks / CBS
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 get matching to donations from spotify covid-19 music relief initiative: https://preshallfoundation.org/spotify-music-relief/
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Art Tatum, The Essential Art Tatum, 1962 on Verve
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 Natick MA
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Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses), The Low Highway, 2013 on New West
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
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The Young Snakes, Bark Along With The Young Snakes, 1982 on Ambiguous Records.
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 cover. Via Planet Records in Cambridge
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Small Faces, self-titled, compilation, 1972 on New World.
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 the Matter Baby?” Is actually not even Small Faces, but Adam, Mike and Tim’s “Little Pictures,” a Decca single from 1965. Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones,…
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Koerner, Ray & Glover; Blues, Rags and Hollees, 1963 on Elektra.
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 in good shape. Three Minneapolis boys made good as part of the blues/folk revival of the early 60s. Ray died in 2002, and Glover in 2019, but…
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Single Releases 2010 Volume 2, 2011 on Third Man Records
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 Done), Wanda Jackson
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John Vanderslice, Life And Death of an American Fourtracker, 2002 on Barsuk
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 vinyl release
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The Art of Noise, Into Battle With The Art Of Noise, 1983 (UK)/1984(US) on Island/ZTT
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 van Eyck. This was the first release from Art of Noise and the first release by ZTT – ZTIS 100.
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Days of Wine and Vinyl, 1972 on Warner Brothers
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, Arthur Conley, Captain Beefheart, The Section, James Taylor, America, Mickey Hart, Dion, The Incredible String Band, Bonnie Raitt, Alexis Korner & Snape, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Dick…
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Mutant Pop 78/79 on PVC Records, 1980
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
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Crosby, Stills & Nash, CSN, 1977 on Atlantic.
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 Star, Shadow Captain, See The Changes, Just A Song Before I Go Not sure when or where I picked this up – must have been early eighties…