Tag: Warner Brothers
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The Roches, Self-Titled, 1979 on Warner Bros.
The Roches, Self-Titled, 1979 on Warner Bros. Debut album from Maggie, Terre, and Suzy Roche. Produced “in audio verité” by Robert Fripp. Part of a lot I got via Everything But The House
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The Blasters, Hard Line, 1985 on Slash / Warner Bros.
The Blasters, Hard Line, 1985 on Slash / Warner Bros. Dave and Phil Alvin and Co – great album with “Dark Night” (“people sitting on porches / thinking how things used to be”) and a version of Sampson & Delilah
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Dan Hicks, It Happened One Bite, 1976 on Warner Bros.
Dan Hicks, It Happened One Bite, 1976 on Warner Bros. Soundtrack to a movie never made – great songwriting as you’d expect. via Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain
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Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up, 1972 on Warner Bros.
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.
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Ry Cooder, Jazz, 1978 on Warner Bros.
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
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Dire Straits, Dire Straits, 1978 on Warner Bros.
Dire Straits, Dire Straits, 1978 on Warner Bros. Debut album from Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John Illsley, and Pick Withers. Produced by Muff Winwood. Classic LP with Down to the Waterline, Sultans of Swing Via Antiques on Elm, Manchester NH
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Grateful Dead, Europe ’72, 1972 on Warner Bros.
Grateful Dead, Europe ’72, 1972 on Warner Bros. 3xLPs of brilliance: China Cat -> I Know You Rider, Brown Eyed Women, Hurts Me Too. that closing Morning Dew, a 13 minute Truckin’. I’ve had this on tape and then CD, but this is my first vinyl copy via the Vinyl Me, Please Anthology release
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Grateful Dead, American Beauty, 1970 on Warner Bros.
Grateful Dead, American Beauty, 1970 on Warner Bros. This copy is from the Vinyl Me, Please Anthology (The Story Of The Grateful Dead) but I’ve been a huge fan of the album since I first heard it in the early eighties. So many beautiful tunes here. I also love the psychedelic jam band version of…
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Emmylou Harris, Blue Kentucky Girl, 1979 on Warner Bros.
Emmylou Harris, Blue Kentucky Girl, 1979 on Warner Bros. Harmony vocals on “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues” by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, years before the Trio album. Tanya Tucker on Sister’s Coming Home, Don Everly on Everytime You Leave. Great classic country album
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ZZ Top, El Loco. 1981 on Warner Brothers.
ZZ Top, El Loco. 1981 on Warner Brothers. I think this was my first exposure to ZZ Top – love the grooves
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America, Homecoming, 1972 on Warner Brothers.
America, Homecoming, 1972 on Warner Brothers. Their sophomore album, with Ventura Highway, Dont Cross the River, Head and Heart, etc. The band actually formed in the UK, kids of US Airforce personnel stationed in London, though I guess by the time they recorded this album they might have actually seen California.
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Kraftwerk, Electric Cafe, 1986 on Warner Brothers
Kraftwerk, Electric Cafe, 1986 on Warner Brothers Another early selection for me from Columbia House Record Club. In very good shape considering how much I played it back then and how long I’ve had it.
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ZZ Top, Eliminator, 1983 on Warner Bros. Records.
ZZ Top, Eliminator, 1983 on Warner Bros. Records. My intro to ZZ Top, following which I went back and got all those that had been released before. Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Lovin, Legs, Got Me Under Pressure
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Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak, 1984 on Warner Bros.
Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak, 1984 on Warner Bros. Not sure how I first heard of Laurie Anderson, but it would have been around the time of this album. Includes “Excellent Birds” with Peter Gabriel and Nile Rodgers, which was originally composed as part of Nam Jun Pak’s “Good Morning Mr. Orwell” installation, on New Years…
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Bonnie Raitt, self-titled, 1971 on Warner Brothers.
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 the labels – 1973 to 1978 sometime. Fantastic beginning to a career still going strong Via Dyno Records in Newburyport, MA
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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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The Whole Burbank Catalog, 1972 on Warner Brothers.
The Whole Burbank Catalog, 1972 on Warner Brothers. Great sampler including Jerry Garcia, Allen Toussaint, Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, T. Rex, Captain Beefheart, America, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Guthrie – early 70s time capsule.
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Fleetwood Mac, Tusk, 1979 on Warner Brothers.
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk, 1979 on Warner Brothers. My copy is a Columbia Record club edition A definite must-have for any vinyl collection