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December 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1693
Bob Dylan, Street Legal (1978) I might be making it up – but then again this is my blog so that’s my right (as well as my write) – but I think this was the first Bob Dylan record I ever owned; as in vinyl/LP. I am pretty sure that’s the case. Now I’m slowly [...]Archive
December 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1694
The Album Leaf, There Is A Wind EP (2010) I like these sorts of things – created specifically to mark Record Store Day; a ltd edition-type deal. Good on the artists for wanting to offer something that rewards an audience. When I first heard The Album Leaf it was almost life-changing. It was just music [...]Archive
December 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1695
Emmylou Harris, Profile II: The Best Of Emmylou Harris (1984) This collection covers off five albums that Emmylou Harris released from the end of the 1970s to the mid-1980s. I would later go and collect all the Harris material on CD but this – and the earlier first volume (Profile: The Best Of Emmylou Harris) [...]Archive
December 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1696
Joni Mitchell, Clouds (1969) It’s no secret that I’m a huge Joni Mitchell fan but this album was never one of my favourites. It probably was one of the gateways though; I started with a best-of compilation (well, two – the Hits and Misses discs) and from there I started collecting Joni’s albums. Blue of [...]Archive
December 28, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1697
Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross (1980) The Arthur Theme was a staple of radio – and that was how I came to know about Christopher Cross. Then my brother, older than me, explained that he was the same guy behind radio hits Sailing and Ride Like The Wind. I can’t remember ever seeking out Christopher Cross beyond [...]Archive
December 28, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1698
The Ralph Sharon Trio, Music For The Late Hours: The Tony Bennett Song Book The name Ralph Sharon only meant something to me when I heard the MTV Unplugged album by Tony Bennett. Bennett even says, as part of his act, that Sharon has been a dedicated accompanist, the pianist on so many of the [...]Archive
December 28, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1699
V/A, True People: The Detroit Techno Album (1996) It’s a box-set of five 12” records. And I bought it from a dude who walked in to the shop I was working in – late one night – wanting to offload some second-hand vinyl. I never really thought about whether it was a dodgy deal or [...]Archive
December 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1700
Hello Sailor, Pacifica Armour (1978) The result of a dig at home – this album. What I mean by that is on a recent return to HB for Christmas and to see the folks and other family I was tasked with sorting out the two cabinets of vinyl that I had left at home over [...]Archive
December 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1701
The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street (1972) I first heard this – one of the most revered/raved about albums by The Rolling Stones – when my brother bought the cassette tape. I only ever knew it as a tape and then a single CD; I never heard it as the double album. I liked [...]Archive
December 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1702
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Soul To Soul (1985) When I was getting in to Stevie Ray Vaughan this was the last of his original albums that I got hold of – but not for any reason beyond it being the last one that I found in a shop at the time. I became [...]Archive
December 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman