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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ’20 Great Stars Perform 20 Great Hits of the 60’s’

By James Stafford on January 21, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Lessons Learned From a $100 Turntable

By James Stafford on January 18, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ‘Members Only’

By James Stafford on January 14, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

You Need To Write That Great Story

By James Stafford on January 11, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: The Three Suns, ‘Warm and Tender’

By James Stafford on January 7, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Who Dares To Tackle the Push-Up Challenge?

By James Stafford on December 31, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

Deep Cuts: The Rainy Day Playlist

By James Stafford on March 21, 2012 • ( 14 Comments )

Rain is rare in my part of the world.  It rains regularly only three months out of the year — and that’s in a good year. I miss the torrential summer afternoon […]

69. But You Know You’re Not Dreaming, Signore

By James Stafford on March 19, 2012 • ( 5 Comments )

I’m in San Francisco this week on super top-secret “Why It Matters” business.  Okay, I came to see the sea lions and make one of those “hey, this is me on a […]

From The Stacks: Open Up And Say…Ahh!

By James Stafford on March 16, 2012 • ( 5 Comments )

This is a dangerous album cover.  When it was released in 1988 various churches and parent groups got all bent out of shape.  Oddly this was because they assumed that the there was […]

Deep Cuts: Music Goes To Court

By James Stafford on March 14, 2012 • ( 9 Comments )

On May 19, 1913, Igor Stravinsky debuted his new ballet, The Rite of Spring.  People actually rioted, proving once and for all that ballet fans are representin’.  That riot and the legal […]

68. Just Sitting Here Watching The Wheels Go Round and Round

By James Stafford on March 12, 2012 • ( 6 Comments )

Summer ended in the traditional manner: A disheveled Jerry Lewis wept while singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and the big three networks rolled out their new television series.  The new fall prime […]

From The Stacks: Pussycats Can Go Far

By James Stafford on March 9, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

Buzzy Linhart is a fascinating and little known dude, at least these days.  Roommate to John Sebastian in the early Sixties co-writer of Bette Midler’s  “(You Got to Have) Friends,”  Buzz is […]

Deep Brushstrokes: The Hipgnosis Bestiary

By James Stafford on March 7, 2012 • ( 15 Comments )

Hipgnosis is The Beatles of album cover art —  nobody has ever done it better than the British design firm founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell.  Their first cover was Pink Floyd’s […]

67. I’m Up and Down and In Between

By James Stafford on March 5, 2012 • ( 6 Comments )

Without question the biggest album of 1983 in Boiling Springs, South Carolina was Def Leppard’s Pyromania.  Nothing captured the upstate zeitgeist like that album: mullets, alcohol, and big dumb songs about rocking […]

Deep Cuts: Songs For Grieving

By James Stafford on March 3, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

A good friend of mine recently lost her father.  There’s really not much else to say here.  Loss is incredibly difficult. She suggested that I put together a “Deep Cuts” list of […]

From the Stacks: Uncle Murray’s Record Collection

By James Stafford on March 1, 2012 • ( 7 Comments )

Dear Band Families, I recently inherited well over 1,000 LP’s from my Uncle Murray.  This Wednesday after school we will sell them for two dollars each with all proceeds going to the school band. […]

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ’20 Great Stars Perform 20 Great Hits of the 60’s’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ‘Members Only’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: The Three Suns, ‘Warm and Tender’

From the Stacks »

From The Stacks: The Mamas and the Papas, ‘The Papas and the Mamas’

From The Stacks: ‘David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf’ (Green Vinyl)

From The Stacks: Queen Cassette Singles

Album Covers »

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Bernadette Peters, ‘Now Playing’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Bert Kaempfert, ‘…Love That’

Hipgnosis Cover of the Week: Nazareth, ‘Close Enough For Rock ‘N’ Roll’

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Cartoon Saturday: George Garabedian, ‘Tijuana Christmas, Volume Two’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Chet Atkins, ‘The Most Popular Guitar’

Hipgnosis Cover of the Week: Wishbone Ash, ‘No Smoke Without Fire’

Deep Cuts »

Deep Cuts: Songs For Habits

Deep Cuts: Ritual Songs

Deep Cuts: Songs For Sickness

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