record store day Archive
17 May 2022
Album Review: Jeannie C. Riley — Harper Valley P.T.A.
I’ve gone on about this idea before, but it never ceases to fascinate me, so I’ll mention it again. Those of us of a certain age — boomers, I guess […]
16 May 2022
Album Review: Detective — s/t
By the mid 1970s, having one’s own boutique record label was a symbol of Having Arrived. The Beatles started it all with Apple, and within a few years, The Moody […]
28 Sep 2020
Album Review: Parish Hall — s/t
One of the longest lists that exists is the one noting recordings that were overlooked because there was simply too much good music already happening. It’s a delight – especially […]
28 Apr 2018
Reviews of Three 45-rpm Singles
“We get letters,” as the saying goes. Actually, I get packages. Lots of ’em. Nearly every day. Mostly CDs, occasionally LPs. Once in a blue moon, a cassette. And nearly […]
20 Apr 2018
Album Review: Anywhere — Anywhere II
Anywhere is an aggregation of indie/underground artists who collectively make a psychedelic folk sound. But Anywhere doesn’t sound like acid-folk, though: there’s a solid rock foundation to the group’s music. […]
20 Apr 2018
Album Review: Richard Lloyd — Lodestones
Richard Lloyd is known to aficionados of cutting-edge 1970s music as one of two guitarists in Television, a band that combined the immediacy of punk with the virtuosity and musical […]
19 Apr 2018
Album Review: Bunk Johnson — Rare & Unissued Masters Volume One
Bunk Johnson was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter who exemplified the pre-war jazz style closer to Louis Armstrong than, say, Miles Davis. Though the style was well past the apex […]
19 Apr 2018
Album Review: The Lurkers — Fulham Fallout
It’s been pointed out by numerous chroniclers of rock history that British punk of the late 1970s grew in large part (though not exclusively) out of the so-called “pub rock” […]
18 Apr 2018
Album Review: Sun Ra — Standards
Jazz great Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) has an imposing reputation as the iconoclastic purveyor of wildly unusual and unconventional music. His influence is felt far beyond the confines of […]
18 Apr 2018
Album Review: An Evening with Ornette Coleman, Part 2
No one would ever accuse Ornette Coleman of making “easy listening” music. One of the acclaimed and innovative jazz musician’s few forays into what could loosely –very loosely – termed […]
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