Category: Now Spinning
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Now Spinning: Gary U.S. Bonds – On The Line
Gary U.S. Bonds threatened to fade into obscurity after a brief run of hits in the early ’60s before Bruce Springsteen resuscitated Bonds’ career twenty years after its heyday by pairing him with the E Street Band. The E Street Band was firing on all cylinders when they went into the studio with Bonds and […]
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Now Spinning: Live at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West
Recorded live during the height of the San Francisco rock scene at the historic Fillmore West, this album captures the magical collaborative spirit that represents the best of the late sixties San Francisco scene. Starting with the front cover, no specific artist is credited, with all the musicians who performed listed along with concert photos […]
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Now Spinning: Bonnie Bramlett – It’s Time
After Delaney & Bonnie ended their marriage and band in 1973, Bonnie Bramlett launched an all too short-lived solo career that despite a lack of attention or acclaim, produced three albums culminating with this sorely overlooked southern soul classic, It’s Time. Fairly or not, Delaney & Bonnie are often best remembered for who joined their […]
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Now Spinning: Blaze Foley – Duct Tape Messiah
Blaze Foley, affectionately referred to as the Duct Tape Messiah thanks to his habit of decorating his outfits with duct tape, toiled in near-complete obscurity during his life but recently his music has had a minor renaissance moment due to a growing underground buzz, with popular culminating in 2018 with the Ethan Hawke-produced biopic, Blaze. […]
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Now Spinning: The Byrds Sanctuary III
Though The Byrds music was consistently centered around Roger McGuinn’s jangly 12-string guitar and folky voice supported by pristine harmonies, few bands can rival their musical creativity, as they jumped between genres and band lineups with ease, spearheading the development of folk rock, psychedelia and country rock. Perhaps there was just too much talent in […]
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Now Spinning: Bluegrass Spectacular Featuring The Osborne Brothers
Inexplicably never released on CD or MP3, this live album finds one of bluegrass’ most seminal and innovative groups performing a largely career retrospective set in 1981. The Osborne Brothers are most famous for their quirky bluegrass hit ‘Rocky Top’ (performed in all its frantic glory here), which has been covered by everyone from Dillard […]
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Now Spinning: The Resurrection of Elmore James
By the time George Harrison shouted out Elmore James on ‘For You Blue’, James had been dead for seven years and missed the opportunity for the middle-aged breakthrough that Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and others experienced during the 1960’s blues revival. Of course, Elmore James is a household name in his own right, contributing ‘Dust […]
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Now Spinning: Maria Muldaur
Though not quite the household name she deserves to be, few if anyone can rival Maria Muldaur’s career in music – from her earliest days on the Greenwich Village folk scene with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band to a string of albums in the late sixties and early seventies that serve as some of the […]
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Now Spinning: Bukka White
One of those summer nights…. thunderstorms have cooled the day’s suffocating humidity down to a near-balmy 80 degrees and I trot out to my backyard for some gardening work, a favorite hobby to pass the time, with the sounds of Bukka White echoing from my turntable inside. It’s a Friday night and the world is […]
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Now Spinning: The Other Side Of Sun
Opinions tend to vary among collectors when it comes to Record Store Day. And sure, while there’s plenty of silly novelty – from unnecessary rereleases (with originals available for a fraction of the cost just a few bins down) to a hectic shopping experience – I refuse to see something that draws so much additional […]
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