Addicted To Vinyl

I wrapped up the week freshly reunited with an old friend. Gregor over at captain’s dead caught my eye with MP3s of one of my favorite KFOG-FM/ San Francisco broadcasts, a 1996 session with Paul Westerberg recorded at Fantasy Studios.
This particular broadcast is a nice little one hour Westerberg career rundown that […]

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Warren Zevon’s classic 1976 self-titled major label debut gets an upgrade with a deluxe edition that hits stores and digital download today. The brand new two CD version of Warren Zevon, Zevon’s classic Asylum Records debut produced by friend Jackson Browne, is fattened up with a second disc that is loaded to the brim […]

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Greetings from the homestead.
Things have been kind of weird here recently. The other night, I got a knock on my door, and the man at the door randomly asked me if I was selling my house. With his family sitting in the van across the street. It was a little bit unsettling […]

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In honor of Blue Rodeo’s U.S. jaunt happening this week, I’ve decided to celebrate with Blue Rodeo Week. Here’s where we’ve been so far:
Day One: T is for The Days in Between
Day Two: What am I doing here?
Day Three: Five from Greg Keelor
Day Four: Five from Jim Cuddy
Day Five: Six […]

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Greetings from Cleveland! Foreigner at House of Blues is next up on the concert agenda, tomorrow night. Setlist and a brief report will come early next week!
We’ll start with a not-so-quick hit:
Jayhawks fans, get happy - there are two Jayhawks-related releases coming out in September! And if you live in Spain, September 4th […]

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“All summer, I was just taking in a lot of things - friends who would be splitting up, and others who would be getting together. The reason I called the album The Stranger wasn’t just because of the song. Each song on it seemed to have some kind of strangeness, some kind of […]

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Barenaked Ladies - Gordon (original cover artwork)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been jonesing to hear “Brian Wilson” by Barenaked Ladies, specifically the live version that appears on Rock Spectacle. In one of my rare excursions driving a car, I took the CD with me, popped it in the player, and it wouldn’t play. […]

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Thanks to my retro 80s loving pal Corey, I thought of T-Ride today.
You haven’t heard of T-Ride…..what?
Wikipedia describes T-Ride as being noted for its wildly complex instrument and vocal arrangements.
That’s funny, because I wasn’t aware that ANYONE besides Corey, myself, and perhaps maybe the people that saw them opening for Joe Satriani on Satch’s tour […]

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Bryan Adams - Can’t Stop This Thing We Started
Happy tax day to all of you!
I was listening to the Waking Up The Neighbours album from Bryan Adams, yesterday morning, which was really the last great album from BA. It would be the last album for a long time, to feature longtime Adams collaborator Jim […]

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Sorry I’ve been absent from class lately. Life got busy. But now, here I am, so let’s get into it.
Friday’s musical moment finds me listening in the waking hours (for me between 6am and 8am) to Bonnie Raitt’s double live album “Road Tested.”
Road Tested is one of the finest and most accurate live […]

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