This week Christopher Long grabs a bag of bargain vinyl from a flea market in Mount Dora, Florida — including You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, the classic 1979 LP from Ian Hunter.

Albert Ayler’s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto (Smog Veil). Review by James Mann.

After thirty years, music critic Gary Giddins is still listening, still watching, and still… writing a multi-volume biography of your grandma’s favorite crooner, Bing Crosby? Ink 19 sat down with Giddins to talk about the shape of jazz to come.

Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.

Like a smarter and hipper Forrest Gump, Joe Boyd repeatedly turned up at the right place at the right time in the rapidly changing music world of the 1960’s. From ferrying blues and jazz players around Europe, to discovering Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and he remembers what happened!

James Mann wonders what Americans have to be thankful for while analyzing William S. Burroughs’ “A Thanksgiving Prayer.”