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Cross Country (SD 7024) (1973)
Post-sixties folk-rock on ATCO heavily indebted to CSN. Only been through side one, but it’s not nearly as weedily soft-rock as I’d feared. There’s a startlingly delicate take on ‘In the ...
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/cross-country-sd-7024-1973/
Sisters Sledge – Circle of Love (K50097) (1975)
Since Messers Edwards and Rodgers prized a cool, almost mechanical vocal approach, the Sisters’ later, very popular Chic Organization-produced Lps, effectively disguised what fabulous soul si...
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/sisters-sledge-circle-of-love-k50097-1975/
Music For Films III (LAND04) (1987)
As I listen, I sense some of the same icy grandeur of Eno and Lanois’ earlier ambient gem Apollo and Bowie’s Low; however, technology had moved on from the previous work and the feel is so...
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/music-for-films-iii-land04-1987/
Thelonious Monk – ‘Hankensack’ b/w ‘Bye-Ya’ (AAG 172) (1963)
Monk revisits a pair of classics adding a more pronounced R&B flavour to this relatively late single, uncoupled from the Monk’s Dream Lp, purchased from Age Concern in Folkestone for a quid.
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/thelonious-monk-hankensack-bw-bye-ya-aag-172-1963/
The Attractions – Mad About the Wrong Boy (XXLP8)/Steve N...e Music From the Film ‘Outline of a Hairdo’ (COMB1) (1980)
Graphic designer Barney Bubbles runs amok on this ‘solo’ Lp by Elvis Costello’s Attractions. Would that such an exceptionally weak ‘new wave’ record merited our Colin’s over-the-top...
John Wetton – Caught In the Crossfire (EGLP 107) (1980)
Archetypal prog journeyman and go-to bassist (Roxy, Crimson, Asia, etc.), Wetton sings in an engaging tenor croon, which he puts to good, if inconsequential, use here. As its title and treated m...
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/john-wetton-caught-in-the-crossfire-eglp-107-1980/
Chicago – Chicago IX – Chicago’s Greatest Hits (CBS 69222) (1975)
As refreshing as an ice-cream on a sunny day (with about as much nutritional value), Chicago’s Greatest Hits takes late-period Beatles pop innovation to a warm, post-hippy, soft rock conclusion...
Sheila & B.Devotion – ‘Spacer’ b/w ‘Don’t Go’ (CAR128T) (1979)
I don’t usually go for faceless 70s Eurodisco. But this particular piece of blankly sung Gallic nonsense (“He’s a spacer/he’s a star chaser”) was ‘written, arranged and conducted by B...
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/sheila-b-devotion-spacer-bw-dont-go-car128t-1979/
Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die (UAS 5504) (1970)
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Music Fans Warned to Beware of Bad Traffic-Related Pun Headlines (London) – Popular music afic...
https://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/traffic-john-barleycorn-must-die-uas-5504-1970/
John Lee Hooker – I’m John Lee Hooker (Vee-Jay LP 1007) (1959) and You’re Leavin’ Me, Baby (673005) (1961)
As it happens, this weekend was a good one for me to have the blues. That is to say, it was a good weekend for me to have all the VG condish, quality 1960s blues records I could find in Folkesto...