Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
©1973, Capitol Records After showing a bunch of photo-based covers, here is one of the most recognizable graphic covers of all time. Floyd’s eig...
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The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
(Album ©1971, Rolling Stones Records) This was the Stones’ first album of the 70’s, their first on their own label, and was the third in w...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love
(Album ©1967, Reprise Records) Jimi’s second album was also the second one he recorded in 1967 alone! While it is the most abstract of his ...
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Album ©1967, EMI/Capitol Records) Here is the other most important album in rock-n-roll, in my opinion. The Beatles had heard Dylan’s Highway 61 Rev...
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
(Album ©1965, Columbia Records) This is (IMO) one of the two most important albums of all time (along with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), co...
Meet The Beatles! – The Beatles
(Album ©1964, EMI / Capitol Records) This record was the first “official” LP released by the band in the US, and the photo on the cover is trul...
Chris Whitley – Living With The Law
(Album ©1991, Columbia Records) Today, it’s Chris Whitley’s debut album Living With The Law. Released in 1991, I heard his first single, the ti...
The Kinks – One For The Road
(Album ©1980, Arista Records) One of my all-time favorite albums is The Kinks’ One For The Road. I heard it for the first time in a ski trip in eight...
The Clash – London Calling
(Album ©1979, Epic Records) Today, among my favorite records is The Clash’s London Calling. I didn’t hear the whole record until 1982, after th...
Ryan Adams – Gold
(Album ©2001, Lost Highway Records) The next album on my musical journey is Ryan Adams’ 2001 masterpiece, Gold. It came out just two weeks after 9/11...