Thursday, May 30, 2024

You Get No Love from Gene OR the Squires

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This is a sort of fascinating record. While not every Preview release has been documented yet, and that will probably never happen, there is...
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Saturday, May 25, 2024

What the HELL is He Singing About?

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When I first decided to share this record, "The Rocking Chair Brand", it was mostly because of Billy Grey's forced, borderline...
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Monday, May 13, 2024

When the Rooster Crows...

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A belated Happy Mother's Day to all Mother's who are reading this post, and all those who have or had a Mother.  Today I have an Air...
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Monday, April 29, 2024

Cardinal Rodd

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Before I get to today's songs, a bit of a backstory. Nearly four years ago, in this post , I shared an EP of Sammy, er, Sonny Marshall s...
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Monday, April 22, 2024

Norm and Joe

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In the early days of the Sterling label, when they were creating a sound I truly love, one of the first singers hired was someone named Joe ...
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Friday, April 12, 2024

How Charming!

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  Well, I've been super busy, and it's been almost two weeks since I posted. I really don't have much time even now, so I won...
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Friday, March 29, 2024

Halmark: The Label Christian Song-Poets Prefer 10-1

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This week, Christians are celebrating Holy Week, and so I thought what better time to feature a religion dominated record from that most rel...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

Forlorn Norm

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  It's been eight months since I featured Norm Burns, and that's just too long. Here we have a pair of songs which are both about lo...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

A March Treat - a Full Star-Crest Album - And it ROCKS! (Well, Once)

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 I have a treat for you today! It's a full song-poem album. And it's on the mustiest of fusty old early 1960's labels, Star-Cres...
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Minimalist Lyrics, With Frank Perry

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Okay, a few things before we get to today's feature.  First, I heard from a correspondent named Jay, who has found the most phenomenal p...
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Saturday, February 24, 2024

Gary Roberts: Bluesman Extraordinaire!

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  Those of you unfamiliar with Gary Roberts would do yourselves a favor and peruse this set of posts (which will start with this very post,...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Another Piece of the Norris Puzzle

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To start today's post, let me just reiterate that, any time I come to own a previously unknown / unshared record linked to the fabulous ...
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