Garage Sale Vinyl: Ian Hunter
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.
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.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.
Sometimes you’ve got to look back several decades to discover fresh “new” music. And this week, Christopher Long stumbles accidentally upon a true vinyl treasure — a clean copy of Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, the critically acclaimed 1968 sophomore set from Laura Nyro — for only three bucks!
Vinyl junkie Christopher Long discovers a treasure trove of budget-priced used LPs in Vero Beach, Florida — including a well-loved copy of the 1974 Linda Ronstadt breakout album, Heart Like a Wheel — for a buck.
Christopher Long scores an absolutely ravaged vinyl copy of the 1977 self-titled debut from Karla Bonoff at a Florida flea market — for FREE!
Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands (Putumayo). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Ghost Stories (Red House Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters (American Laundromat). Review by May Terry.
An FM station fights to keep is music cool while corporate wants more advertising. Corporate wins again.
Pearls / Touch the Sky / Welcome Home / Simple Things (Rockingale Records / Concord Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The Greatest Love Songs of All Time (Arista / Sony Music). Review by Christopher Long.
Just In Time For Christmas (Stellar Cat Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Say what you will about Dolly Parton. Just be careful of what you say in front of Matthew Moyer , true fan. Here’s why.
A Tribute to Cajun Music (Vanguard). Review by Stein Haukland.
A.J. Croce celebrates the 50th anniversary of his father, Jim Croce’s, three ground breaking albums, with a nationwide tour of Croce Plays Croce.
High Above Harlesden 1978 - 2023 from On-U Sound collects 60 dub and reggae tracks from Creation Rebel, an astounding set of musicians.
Gerta O. Egy’s beautifully drawn fungi almost eclipse their fairyland habitats in her Mushroom Daydream Coloring Book.
One of the last of the classic wuxia swordplay films stands as a fitting coda to the grand period of the genre. Phil Bailey reviews a new Blu-ray release of the 1975 film The Valiant Ones.
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Smash Mouth takes us back to The Brady Bunch circa 1973, with “Sunshine Day,” featuring Barry Williams, the original Greg Brady.
Not everyone can be excited by blocks spinning on a screen, but if you are, Ian Koss recommends you pay attention to Best of Five.
The final two films in the bonkers Hong Kong action comedy series The Inspector Wears Skirts hit Blu-ray from 88 Films.
A pair of early “girls with guns” action films from superstars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock have arrived from 88 Films.