John Conlee – “Blue Highway”
I got this copy of “Blue Highway” by John Conlee back in 2011, and I am only just now realizing that it was still currently…
Dave Evans & River Bend – “Goin Round This World”
Somewhere along the lines I acquired four of Dave Evans and River Bend’s albums, their debut, the two subsequent follow-ups, skipped a year and got…
Chuck Ramsey & Tommy Trammel – “Together”
This is another record that came from my old record seller from Florida, and this one I had bought around 2012 after hearing Tommy Trammel…
Alabama – “Mountain Music”
So, let’s address the elephant in the room here, the sleeve. This has got to be just one of the most poorly designed sleeves, and…
Brand Nubian – “Who Wanna Be A Star? (It’s Brand Nu Baby) / Just Don’t Learn”
Obviously, this was one of those records I came across at the Salvation Army or Value Village, and thought to myself, “Neat, a rap record…
Iggy Pop – “Lust for Life”
“Lust for Life” marks Iggy Pop’s second collaboration with David Bowie after “The Idiot” (another personal favorite of mine) – this album, unlike “The Idiot”,…
Janis Ian – “Between the Lines
Don’t be fooled by how rough looking the sleeve looks, this is one of those records that I was lucky enough to find myself a…
The Associates – “Sulk”
The Associates are definitely an acquired taste, and I don’t mean that in any negative way. When I was a teenager I first got into…
Jamie Redfern – “When You Wish Upon a Star”
Jamie Redfern, at the time, was a kid from Liverpool, who essentially rose to fame on the Australian show “Young Talent Time” (equivalent to the…
Margaret Mabry – “The Falling Leaves”
I got this one a couple of years ago, now I didn’t buy it for the track listing – which I might add are all…
Alison Moyet – “Invisible / Hitch Hike”
After the break-up of Yazoo (I refuse to call them Yaz), powerhouse vocalist Alison Moyet released her first solo album, “Alf” which was titled after…
Nite Blues Steel Band – “Steel Band Music of the Caribbean”
Now, I’ve wrote about steel bands in the past and I was not a fan, this might be different because it’s Caribbean and according to…
Martin Briley – “One Night With A Stranger”
This is another record that falls into the category of “marred by Value Village” – there was a time in the early 2010’s when records…
