*Seasonal Affective Disorder
You have to find light where you can even if it's found in a plastic black hole of musical wonder.
As many of you are well aware, records have reclaimed some of their dominance of my consciousness. I just now paid nearly $50 for Richard Thompson's "Henry The Human Fly", his first solo album, released in 1972. I found it on Discogs, and I'm hoping to receive it before my 30 days are over.
A friend on Facebook nominated me to list 30 albums in 30 days that are of significant importance to me. The rules are to offer no explanation and nominate someone else every day. A musical pyramid scheme. I'm choosing to disregard the rules. Feel free to volunteer as I'm not nominating anyone. I can't help saying something about how or why an album is on my agenda. I don't know which one I'm posting until I sit down to make the post, and I'm only featuring albums I own vinyl copies of.
I'm about to post #13. I started with this one two weeks ago Friday:
#1 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
I sent $3 off to Warner Bros records with a coupon cut out of the sleeve from Neil Young's Harvest, sometime in 1972. I was 15, didn't have an older sibling, too many friends, or found FM radio, and I wanted to hear new music.
It's a 3 record "Loss Leader", full of artist such as Little Feat, The Grateful Dead, Ry Cooder, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Newman, Fleetwood Mac, The Kinks, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart and Faces. I found this super clean replacement on Discogs for under $20.
More to come.
I meant to start this yesterday. To make up for it, here's what I just posted on FaceBook.
Widowmaker" (1964) Jimmy Martin
I found this 1973 repress in 1984, or 40 years ago(!). A lot of 80's post punk new wave popular music drove me back into the distant past, starting with Elvis, rockabilly, country, and blues. I bought it for the $1.99 price tag, and the album cover. Turns out Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys were the real deal.
It's more old style country than the virtuosic playing on hard core Bluegrass. It's all about the songs, and the stories they tell in that high lonesome style. It's all about truckers, with "Six Days On The Road", "Widowmaker", and those little white pills.
Blame The Byrds and "Sweetheart Of The Radio" for getting me into straight country music.
-BBJ
2 comments:
That's a cool cover for a collection of random tracks from artists! I hope you'll post all the picks and coverage together in one fell swoop for the grand finale.
Coincidentally last week I scored a cheap copy of the Loss Leader "Collectus Interruptus" and gave it to my pal who owns a shop because it has two of his favorites on it (the Pistols and Ramones) and also Prince. Was telling him how in the "old days" completists needed these things. Nowadays nobody really cares.
I bought "The Force" for the Jan & Dean rarity "Laurel and Hardy." Again, these days nobody cares.
(not sure if Stan Cornyn was involved with these but here's my pitch to find a copy of his book "Exploding," one of THE great books about the music industry, particularly Warner Brothers)
Bob in IL
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