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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 title track, while I was a DJ on WIZN in Vermont. We were playing it in medium rotation, so it was getting heard a bit. I grabbed a copy of the CD…
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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 eighth grade. Don Saturday, wherever you are, thank you for bringing this along. This is one of the best live albums of all times, if you…
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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 the band’s next album (Combat Rock) came out, but I already knew who they were thanks to the two radio songs from this album – “Train in Vain” and the title track.…
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Living Colour – Vivid
Today, I wanted to review one of the best debut albums in all of rock-n-roll, which sometimes gets overlooked – Living Colour’s album Vivid. Some of you may know that I have a hard rock side of me that lives happily alongside the more dominant classic rock persona, and it was fairly prevalent during high…
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The Upper Crust – Let Them Eat Rock
Today, it’s The Upper Crust’s first full album, 1995’s Let Them Eat Rock. I know that almost nobody knows this band, and there are a few good reasons for this. They were never signed by a major label or went out on a national tour. They never had a song get any national radio play…
