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Well, this daily dose of vinyl is drawing even closer to it’s finale. Most Sundays of this year (and many of the years before) I have [...]
December 30, 2012
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I can even express how stoked I am to be presenting this TOP 30 album of 2012 to you.. My fav and second album of all time (the first was [...]
December 20, 2012
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Oh here we have another case of saving my favourite albums for the last month of this project 365. Miles Davis ~Someday My Prince Will Come [...]
December 16, 2012
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It seem like perhaps I have left the best for last, this month. Nina Simone is a deep voiced delicious diva. Jazz at it’s best. A strong, [...]
December 8, 2012
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SEPTEMBER 26 Sacred Country and Western Songs by Texas Jim Roberston. I imagine he was the hot pick around the campfire with guitar. His story [...]
October 5, 2012
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The dangerous bad boy of the 80s. Billy Idol. With a rebel yell we all cried more more more. My husband and myself shared equally naughty stories [...]
August 10, 2012
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My father walked me down the isle (at the second wedding) in Alberta ~ to the title song of this album. Our first wedding was earlier that week [...]
August 9, 2012
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Oh this album is delicious in just so many ways. My sweety found it at the Value Village in New Westminster for a buck. I’m throwing it in [...]
July 12, 2012
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Who better to kick off the folk festival season with than Peter Paul and Mary? I mean, c’moon. Who doesn’t love them? Right away I [...]
July 5, 2012
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“little Burgondy Montreal Black Panther” is written in red marker on the front oof this fabulous, and I mean fabulous album. [...]
June 21, 2012
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Gordon Lightfoot I Love you. I bauled my eyes out the entire concert, last November in Vancouver. My sweety gave me tickets for my birthday and [...]
June 14, 2012
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From the Godfather to father in law… nice segue, non? Happy Birthday to Terry today! In honour of him, here is possibly my favourite [...]
June 11, 2012
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I can’t type fast enough ~ to tell you all that I scored an unopened plastic covered She’s So Unusual ~Cyndi Laurper album!! Actually [...]
June 6, 2012
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Why am I putting this surprisingly fantastic album MELANIE at CARNEGIE HALL in my Top 30 records of 2012? After eagerly listening to Sides A [...]
May 12, 2012
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The Supremes ~ possibly the BEST girl band EVER. Who doesn’t love every song on this album? There was a facebook questionaire gone viral [...]
May 10, 2012
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Graham Nash & David Crosby 1972 serious score. I had hoped the crackly record sound would only add to the pleasure of this album and I was [...]
April 19, 2012
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A girl can’t get enough zylophone. A new TOP 30 album of 2012 and jazz to boot! This was real score last week at the thrift store on [...]
April 7, 2012
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CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG 4 way Street. Just as outstanding and folksy harmonic with sweet guitar ~ as you might expect from this amazing [...]
April 6, 2012
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My husband’s favourite album in four months! BOOGIE SHOES! This album is close to the top of our TOP 30 albums of 2012 for SURE! KC [...]
April 5, 2012
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Etta James, the late great Etta James. What a TREAT this album is! 1978. I am slowly building a jazz collection, finally. Here’s what [...]
April 4, 2012
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HAPPY JOHNNY CASH SUNDAY my record blog friends! Welcome to this gorgous sunny Sunday on our wee pacific island. I got to share my Johnny Cash [...]
March 25, 2012
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“These folks are hefty in the musical sense. It should be “retrospective” instead of reminiscence. It’s classic jazz [...]
March 22, 2012
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Tom Jones is so hot on this record, I’m not sure where to begin. Picture it. 1967. The Flamingo in Las Vegas! The Flamingo Las [...]
March 3, 2012
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“man I love opera..shit!” Kathy McIntrye (my sweety’s aunt). The Barber of Seville is March’s first entry and an awesome [...]
March 1, 2012
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Our LEAP YEAR Lovers & Duets, the February Special is brought to a close with love in Paris. What could be more romantic? It’ son my [...]
February 29, 2012
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What places a record in my Top 30 records of 2012? When you listen to a song not once but twice in a row with the volume cranked!! Who is a more [...]
February 24, 2012
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Benny Goodman brought the lights back on! 3days of no power were over this evening and celebrated rightly so with the sweet jazz sounds of Benny [...]
January 24, 2012
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Oh Sammy Davis Junior. He does Nat King Cole proud. Who doesn’t love Sammy’s sweet, deep, smooth vocals? This album is in mint [...]
January 21, 2012
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HAPPY JOHNNY CASH DAY! This is one of my FAv JC albums and after 5 mins of listening went straight into the TOP 30 records of 2012! [...]
January 15, 2012
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If you had guessed by looking at this gorgeous womyn that she was a handful of blues, you’d be [...]
January 7, 2012