Black Beauties: New Vinyl at Judd's Juke Joint - Hathaway, Zevon, Carr, Neil & The Brothers...Oh My!
Here is the full truckload of music at Judd's Juke Joint
- 1,384 CDs & Bits & Bytes (downloads)
- 50 Black Beauties (vinyl)
- 47 killer DVDs
- And the "Roll Call"
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The new vinyl addiction has gloriously manifested itself again, resulting in some fine new members of Judd's Juke Joint. This time around I picked up some new and used stuff. My Vinyl Buying Manifesto still rings true: choose rich classic albums, collect a lot and make it diverse. When I drop a record on the turntable, I want it to be from a well rounded collection of vinyl , I want it to be a great experience and I want it to be a repeat offender.
I don't think I have to worry about these suspects subjects; they are all repeat offenders.
The New (and by new I mean new reissues):
- Donny Hathaway: "Everything is Everything". This is album is Donny's statement on himself in reflection of the (then current) times, and how he is trying to help with a message of soing and music. "Young, Gifted and Black" is both defiant and defining. Love that track!
- James Carr: "You've G ot My Mind Messed Up". I posted about James Carr before. The title track IS Memphis soul. It is such a bow-down event to listen to...go do it Now.
- Warren Zevon: "Warren Zevon". I can't stop listening to this. I have it on CD, but it always fell victim to the dreaded "shuffle". This once thought friend, developed into a parasite that drained the "album" from the record. Since I picked this up, I have really been into the album of it all...the dark, witty, cocky mood of it all: Awesome (in the truest sense of that word). I'll let the snarling lyric from "The French Inhaler" speak on behalf of this brilliant set:
But tell me
How're you going to make your way in the world, woman
When you weren't cut out for working
And you just can't concentrate
And you always show up late
You said you were an actress
Yes, I believe you are
I thought you'd be a star
So I drank up all the money,
Yes, I drank up all the money,
With these phonies in this Hollywood bar,
These friends of mine in this Hollywood bar
Loneliness and frustration
We both came down with an acute case
And when the lights came up at two
I caught a glimpse of you
And your face looked like something
Death brought with him in his suitcase
Your pretty face
It looked so wasted
Another pretty face
Devastated
The French Inhaler
He stamped and mailed her
"So long, Norman"
She said, "So long, Norman"
The Old (and by old I mean used
):
- Neil Young: "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere". My fave Neil album. His first with The Horse and a real gone classic. First...listen to "Cowgirl". Let it blow your mind and then listen again. The ups and downs, stretches and fuzz assaults and jagged melodies...that song and solo(s) is indicative of the flow of the entire album. Danny Whitten knew how to play with Neil.
- Allman Brothers: "Eat a Peach". Brother Duane ldied before this one came out. It is a bit of this and that from studio cuts with and without him to classic live material. The collection and range of the sounds is immense and serves as a cold reminder that one of the greatest ever was lost too soon. "Blue Sky" NEVER fails to make me smile and want to take a ride down an old dirt road, window down, elbow out the window and volume on "ear splitter". "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" is one of my fave studio cuts: "You don't need no gypsy to tell you whhyyyy. You can't let one precious day slip on by..."
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