BLACK VINYL MONDAY

BLACK VINYL MONDAY To much Music not enough time

Jimi Hendrix “Live At Woodstock” 1999 MCA/Experience Hendrix - Recorded live 54 years ago today with Gypsy , Sun & Rain...
08/17/2025

Jimi Hendrix “Live At Woodstock” 1999 MCA/Experience Hendrix - Recorded live 54 years ago today with Gypsy , Sun & Rainbows, an early incarnation of Band Of Gypsys. Still getting my Woodstock on. OK, boomer.

“Woodstock- Music from the Original Soundtrack and More” 1970/2019 Rhino Records - This is the mono monitor mix of the m...
08/17/2025

“Woodstock- Music from the Original Soundtrack and More” 1970/2019 Rhino Records - This is the mono monitor mix of the music released for Record Store Day, giving you a new stripped down perspective of how the music actually went down. The mix isn’t necessarily better, but it’s different in its removal of a lot of the studio trickery of the original, and if you’ve spent the amount of time that I have with this record, it’s refreshing.

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “Cookbook Vol. 2” 1959 Prestige Records - The cover is a mess, but the RVG/Rudy Van Gelder deep gr...
08/16/2025

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “Cookbook Vol. 2” 1959 Prestige Records - The cover is a mess, but the RVG/Rudy Van Gelder deep groove pressing sounds fine.

Dave Edmunds “The Dave Edmunds &Love Sculpture Singles A’s & B’s” 1980 Harvest Heritage Records - Early Edmunds recordin...
08/14/2025

Dave Edmunds “The Dave Edmunds &Love Sculpture Singles A’s & B’s” 1980 Harvest Heritage Records - Early Edmunds recordings from the late sixties and early seventies, solo and with Love Sculpture. In fact, all of the solo recordings from 1970-1972 (including “I Hear You Knocking”) are attributed to Dave Edmunds Rockpile.

“Cory Weeds Meets Jerry Weldon” 2025 Cellar Music Group - These guys know the meaning of the verb, to swing. Miles Black...
08/10/2025

“Cory Weeds Meets Jerry Weldon” 2025 Cellar Music Group - These guys know the meaning of the verb, to swing. Miles Black on piano, John Lee on bass, Jesse Cahill on drums, and the leaders on tenor sax. Weeds also puts out some great jazz reissues on his label, Reel To Real Records.

Margie Joseph “Phase II” 1972 Volt Records - Its interesting that Margie Joseph had a minor hit with The Supremes’ “Stop...
08/07/2025

Margie Joseph “Phase II” 1972 Volt Records - Its interesting that Margie Joseph had a minor hit with The Supremes’ “Stop In The Name Of Love” on her first album, and then cut a version of “My World Is Empty Without You” on this album. Her voice is not unlike that of Diana Ross. That said, this record’s got more soul than anything The Supremes ever cut. (And I Love The Supremes.) Joseph would go on to score a hit covering Paul McCartney’s “My Love.” Her voice sounds nothing like McCartney’s.

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia “Another Live” 1975 Bearsville Records - Kind of an underrated dark horse in Todd’s catalog, alth...
08/01/2025

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia “Another Live” 1975 Bearsville Records - Kind of an underrated dark horse in Todd’s catalog, although the material is first rate. The first side features three new songs, while side two is a mix of Todd covers and covers of others. It’s the last Utopia album with this lineup.

Hello People “The Handsome Devils” 1974 ABC/Dunhill Records - The Hello People formed in the late 1960s and performed in...
08/01/2025

Hello People “The Handsome Devils” 1974 ABC/Dunhill Records - The Hello People formed in the late 1960s and performed in makeup while doing mime. They wouldn’t say a word to the audience. After two albums were released in the 1960s, they backed Todd Rundgren on early tours and performed with him on the “Back To The Bars Tour.”. He produced this excellent power-pop album from 1974.

David Byrne “Music for The Knee Plays” from Robert Wilson’s “The Civil Wars” 1985 ECM Records - I saw that my brother-in...
07/31/2025

David Byrne “Music for The Knee Plays” from Robert Wilson’s “The Civil Wars” 1985 ECM Records - I saw that my brother-in-law posted this record a few weeks ago and I made a mental note to pull it out and play it again. Of course, I didn’t, until I heard that playwright and director, Robert Wilson had passed. Robert Wilson R.I.P.

Del Shannon “Rock On” 2022/1991 Demon/Mole Hole Records - I was inspired to pull this record out after reading about its...
07/30/2025

Del Shannon “Rock On” 2022/1991 Demon/Mole Hole Records - I was inspired to pull this record out after reading about its creation in Mike Campbell’s excellent biography, “Heartbreaker.” I’ve enjoyed listening to the albums as I make my way through this book. The was the comeback album that Del Shannon never saw released, recorded with Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, and produced by Jeff Lynne. It was released briefly posthumously.

Tom Lehrer “More of Tom Lehrer”/“An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer” 1959 Lehrer Records - His second was release as a li...
07/28/2025

Tom Lehrer “More of Tom Lehrer”/“An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer” 1959 Lehrer Records - His second was release as a live album with applause and song intros (under the evening wasted title), and as an album with just the songs. Either way, they were self-released while he was a professor at Harvard. Tom Lehrer R.I.P.

Tom Lehrer “Songs By Tom Lehrer” 1953 Lehrer Records - The first two iterations of Lehrer’s debut 10” LP were self-relea...
07/28/2025

Tom Lehrer “Songs By Tom Lehrer” 1953 Lehrer Records - The first two iterations of Lehrer’s debut 10” LP were self-released on Lehrer Records and then TransRadio Records while he was a Harvard professor. The record was later re-recorded in 1966 and released as a 12” on Reprise Records. Nevertheless, Lehrer left this mortal coil last evening, and I grew up listening to his sardonic humor. He will be missed. Tom Lehrer R.I.P.

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