Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up, 1972 on Warner Bros.
Second LP from the inimitable @bonnieraittofficial – an American treasure.
Includes a cover of Jackson Browne’s Ubder the Falling Sky. Recorded at Bearsville in Woodstock NY
via The Record Exchange in Salem MA.
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelly with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, 1965 on GNP Crescendo.
Recordings from 1938, 1939, and 1946 in London, originally released (in this form) on Disques Decca in France in 1964.
Amazing group of musicians on these sets
Via @deepthoughtsjp
El Tee, Everything Is Fine, 2020 – self-released via @getvnyl
@elteemusic is Lauren Tarver, a “californian-Melbournian” songwriter and performer – this is her debut full length
Dawes, We’re All Gonna Die, 2016 on HUB Records.
@pallasgroup pressing, @bgmastering lacquers, great album.
When the Tequila Runs Out, Picture of a Man, Roll With the Punches.
via @rounderrecords online store
Blancmange, Believe You Me, 1985 on Sire.
On London Records in the UK, Sire in the US.
Third @blancmange_music full length LP from Neil Arthur and Steven Luscombe.
I didn’t know this one in the 80s but had Mange Tout on repeat so was very excited to find this at @deepthoughtsjp
Herbie Hancock, Future Shock, 1983 on Columbia.
Platinum selling LP, with Rockit on constant MTV rotation back in the day. When I heard it back then I had no context for Hancock’s history, Jazz, funk, electronics, emerging hip hop – i just knew I liked it.
My copy is part of the @vinylmeplease anthology of @herbiehancock
Nat Adderley Septet, Don’t Look Back, 1976 on Steeplechase.
My copy is a later reissue 180 gram “audiophile” edition (not sure from when exactly) pressed somewhere in Germany.
SteepleChase was (is?) a Danish label founded by Nils Winther who also produced this LP (and many of their releases).
The septet included Adderley (cornet), Buddy Williams (drums), Ken McIntyre (Reeds & flute), Fernando Gumbs (bass), Onaje Allan Gumbs (piano/keys), John Stubblefield (sax), Victor See Yuen (congs, percussion).
via @deepthoughtsjp
Isaac Hayes, Tough Guys, 1974 on Enterprise.
Soundtrack from the blaxploitation film Three Tough Guys, which Hayes made his acting debut in along with Lino Ventura and Fred Williamson
My copy is the @vinylmeplease 2021 reissue – great pressing and packaging.
Strings by thr Memphis Symphony Orechestra, rhythm section The Movement (aka The Isaac Hayes Movement)
Blood, Sweat and Tears, The First Album, 1973 on Embassy (UK).
The debut album, titled Child Is Father To The Man, 1968 – was re-released in the UK and Europe 5 years later with this title and packaging, but the same recording.
Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby, Jim Fielder, Dick Halligan, Fred Lipsius, Jerry Weiss, Randy Brecker.
Who doesn’t love an album with a track title like “The Modern Adventures of Plato, Diogenes, and Freud” that opens with a flute overture?
Via The Record Exchange, Salem MA
Thelonious Monk, Pure Monk: Theloniois Monk Piano Solos, 1974 on Trip Jazz.
Trip Jazz was a sublabel of Trip, itself owned by Springboard, a discount New Jersey label ( distributed, in part, in grocery stores) that purchased the Scepter Records catalogue.
This version is electronically reprocessed to stereo (as was the Scepter release in Italy in 1968).
The original mono version came out in 1954 on a 10″ from Swing, an imprint of Disques Vogues in France.
Via a lot purchased from @ebth
Sufjan Stevens, The Ascension, 2020 on @asthmatickittyrecords
@sufjan meets @chvrches on a sometimes divisive double LP
I love it.
Mine is the @independentrecordpressing pressing and sounds great – I’ve heard there were issues with some from the @pallasgroup GmbH pressing
Via @lightofdayrecords in Jamaica Plain
General Public, . . . All The Rage, 1984 on I.R.S. Records
Debut LP for an offshoot of the English Beat (aka The Beat) plus members of Dexy’s Midnight Runners and the Specials
via Anntiques in Ispwich MA
Ry Cooder, Jazz, 1978 on Warner Bros.
One of my all time favorite Ry Cooder records – swing / dixieland / blues / jazz.
Earl Hines guests on piano on “The Dream”
via Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain
John Mayall, The Turning Point, 1969 on Polydor.
I’m a huge fan ofJohn Mayall across many decades – this is his “new band” (after the breakup of the Bluesbreakers) recorded live at the Fillmore East in 1969 with Jon Mark, Steve Thompson, and Johnny Almond.
It’s what he called “low volume music” – no drums, no heavy lead guitar.
Via Record Exchange, Salem MA
Sarah Jarosz, Build Me Up From Bones, 2013 on Sugar Hill Records
My copy is a 2021 reissue by Craft Recordings and it sounds beautiful.
Wonderful cover of “Simple Twist of Fate” with Nathaniel Smith on Cello, plus a cover of Joanna Newsom’s “The Book of Right On” and many great originals
The Alarm, Knife Edge, 1986 on I.R.S. Records
Another 80s 12″ single with B side Caroline Isenberg and two live tracks from BBC Radio One.
Via Deep Thoughts, Jamaica Plain
Echo & The Bunnymen, The Killing Moon (All Night Version), 1983 on Sire.
12″ maxi-single with a 9+ minute version of one of my favorite Echo & The Bunnymen tunes, plus a live “Do It Clean” from the Royal Albert Hall
Via Deep Thoughts, Jamaica Plain
Erroll Garner, Soliloquy, 1957 on Columbia.
Mono pressing with the six-eye Columbia label
“Records always sound best on Columbia phonographs”
Via Residency Records, Salem MA
Hoodoo Gurus, Blow Your Cool, 1987 on Elektra.
Dave Faulkner and crew’s third album, with the big hit “What’s My Scene.”
Guest vocals by Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson of The Bangles on Good Times.
Promo copy via Deep Thoughts, Jamaica Plain
