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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Carmen Cavallaro, ‘Love Can Make You Happy’

By James Stafford on February 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Why Do It If It Doesn’t Pay?

By James Stafford on February 22, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Larry Fotine, ‘Listening To Larry’

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

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Gerard Kremer, ‘Les Grands Carnavals D’Amerique Latine’

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

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Andre Kostelanetz, ‘Calendar Girl’

By James Stafford on February 4, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Unappreciated Art of Staying in the Background

By James Stafford on February 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Deep Cuts: Ten Songs To Hate School By

By James Stafford on October 26, 2011 • ( 11 Comments )

Songs about school date back to the beginning of rock and roll.  Throughout the Fifties and Sixties they focused on just how keen and swell school is, and then Alice Cooper happened.  […]

51. I Hate the Teachers and the Principal, Don’t Wanna Be Taught to be No Fool

By James Stafford on October 24, 2011 • ( 12 Comments )

Boiling Springs High School was the newest, cleanest building in town.  The sun and rain had yet to dull the red brick; the huge expanse of lawn leading up to Old Furnace Road […]

The Cutout Bin Revisited

By James Stafford on October 21, 2011 • ( 10 Comments )

Are you still awake?  Sweet Dio’s crucifix,  I started rambling about junior high school nine months ago and  you have sat there the whole time, patiently staring at my record collection while I […]

Anomie Belle Tour Dates

By James Stafford on October 21, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Sometimes I forget that the pipes that make up the intergooglewebtubes extend well past the Sacramento city limits, and for that I apologize.  I was in such a rush to spread the […]

50. The Punk and the Godfather (Why It Matters Revisited)

By James Stafford on October 19, 2011 • ( 10 Comments )

 This is the big number fifty in my ongoing narrative, not including the many sidebars and asides.  This seems like a good of a time as any for a sanity check. I […]

49. This Is A Public Service Announcement (With Guitars)

By James Stafford on October 17, 2011 • ( 17 Comments )

“I’m not driving to Colorado every time your grandfather decides he’s dying,” my father muttered. He jammed the last of the luggage into the back of the station wagon.  “He rotted his […]

Anomie Belle at the Blue Lamp, 10/30/11

By James Stafford on October 14, 2011 • ( 18 Comments )

You’re not familiar with Anomie Belle? I’d much rather light a candle than curse your darkness.  She is one of the most interesting indies out there right now — no allegiance to […]

The Ozzman Cometh

By James Stafford on October 13, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

If you’re in the Sacramento area and interested in picking up Ozzy’s autograph, head on over to Barnes and Noble at Arden Fair Mall on October 21, 2011.  He’ll be signing his […]

Deep Cuts: Weird Television Musical Appearances

By James Stafford on October 12, 2011 • ( 8 Comments )

Music television predates MTV — it even predates the Ed Sullivan Show — and as a kid I would watch any show with a special guest appearance.   From Bobby Sherman on The […]

48. Once We Had An Easy Ride and Always Get the Same

By James Stafford on October 10, 2011 • ( 14 Comments )

My goal as a kid was to get my hands on as much music as possible.  I recorded The King Biscuit Flower Hour whenever I found it on the FM dial.  When […]

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Carmen Cavallaro, ‘Love Can Make You Happy’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Larry Fotine, ‘Listening To Larry’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Gerard Kremer, ‘Les Grands Carnavals D’Amerique Latine’

From the Stacks »

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Arthur Fiedler, ‘Gaite Parisienne’

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)

Album Covers »

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Andre Kostelanetz, ‘Calendar Girl’

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ‘Members Only’

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

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

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