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  1.  Darkness Darkness 

  2.  Smug 

  3.  On Sir Francis Drake 

  4.  Sunlight 

  5.  Double Sunlight 

  6.  Beautiful 

  7.  Turn it Over 

  8.  Don't Let The Rain Get You Down 

  9.  Trillum 

10.  Quicksand 

11.  Black Mountain Breakdown 

12.…

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1.  This Must Be The Night 

2.  Savoire Faire 

3.  That World Outside 

4.  Slow Drain 

5.  You Just Keep Holding On 

6.  Lipstick Traces 

7.  Just To Walk That Little Girl Home 

8.  Every Which Way But…

I've been an avid music collector since the early 1960's.  Besides the great albums I purchased, I always took note of some of the really bad records I bought over the years...you know what I'm talking about don'cha?  Record albums…

Release Date: November 29, 1968 Warner Bros Records

When I got out of bed his morning, I suddenly realized that 55 years ago Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album was released.  Looking back on those days, I vividly recall hearing this…

In 1976, a young musician named Chris White released an album on the UK label Charisma called Mouth Music.  It drew a lot of interest from many Brian Wilson fans as the album is chock full of…

Today's Hot Platter is a 2005 concept album, Illinoise, by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Illinoise was Stevens' fifth studio album which features songs that reference places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois was…

Farewell Aldebaran - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester

1968 Straight Records

There have been many albums that I became attached to over the years and Farewell Aldebaran certainly falls into that category.  I'm thinking of Van Morrison's…

This past summer, I was saddened to hear the news that Tom Finn, the remaining member of the rock band, The Left Banke, had passed away after suffering from poor health for many years.  The Left Banke was…

TRACK LIST

01.  Only You Know & I Know 

02.  Can’t Stop Worrying, Can’t Stop Loving 

03.  Waitin On You 

04.  Shouldn’t Have Took Me Than You Gave 

05.  World In Changes 

06.…

"One of the first album-oriented, underground groups in the United States, the Blues Project offered an electric brew of rock, blues, folk, pop, and even some jazz, classical, and psychedelia during their brief heyday in the mid-'60s. It's not…

Back in the early 1970's, while attending college in Dayton, Ohio, I used to go to this great record store called The Forest which was just off-campus. Many a happy hour was spent thumbing thru the album racks…

Track List 

01.  Here We Go 

02.  Midnight Visitor 

03.  One and One 

04.  Giant Bohemoth 

05.  Mother Says 

06.  Birdcall Morning 

07.  Home 

08.  I'll Tell The World 

Today's Platter, the self-titled debut record by Crazy Horse, is one of those great pieces of vinyl that fell through the cracks of public consciousness when it was first released in 1971. 

Track List:  

1. Gone Dead

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Track List: 

1.      I Wish I Could SIng 

2.      Innocent Little Doggie 

3.      Cool It 

4.      Listen At That Bull 

5.      Transistor Radio 

6.      Eloise 

7.      Dog Eat Dog

A couple of…

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01    La De Da         

02    Take Me Home Jesus         

03    Juke Box Mama         

04    Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes        

05    Fallin' Rain         

06    Fire And Brimstone         

07…

Looking at the troubles that the music industry finds itself in today, my thoughts return to a time when record companies energetically courted listeners by releasing bargain product samplers. Such is the case with today's Hot Platter --- the…