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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 [...]

    HAPPY JOHNNY CASH SUNDAY… the final chapter of this Project 365 and it’s a DOUBLE FEATURE!

    December 30, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    I Make People Stop and Listen When Boy George Does His oh-oh in Do They Know It’s Christmas?!

    December 20, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    This is The Best Record I’ve Ever Made

    December 16, 2012
  • 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, [...]

    Silk and Soul, Nina Simone the Diva

    December 8, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    The songs of Yester-Gay

    October 5, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    The first the time I said “mother fucker” in public.

    August 10, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    Chances. What are the chances that I’d find you?

    August 9, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    This is the electrifying voice of a legend… edith piaf

    July 12, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    undeniably delicious harmony

    July 5, 2012
  •   “little Burgondy Montreal Black Panther” is written in red marker on the front oof this fabulous, and I mean fabulous album. [...]

    Stand Up And Be Counted

    June 21, 2012
  •  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 [...]

    Gordon Lightfoot does Janis Joplin in 1970

    June 14, 2012
  • From the Godfather to  father in law… nice segue, non? Happy Birthday to Terry today! In honour of him, here is possibly my favourite [...]

    Happy Birthday Terry!

    June 11, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    Deflowering Cyndi Lauper *or* Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    June 6, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    infectious romp about freedom and roller skates

    May 12, 2012
  • The Supremes ~ possibly the BEST girl band EVER. Who doesn’t love every song on this album? There was a facebook questionaire gone viral [...]

    Best girl band EVER ~motown Divas

    May 10, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    rolling paper album cover

    April 19, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    a romantic Debussy mood pervades

    April 7, 2012
  • CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG 4 way Street. Just as outstanding and folksy harmonic with sweet guitar ~ as you might expect from this amazing [...]

    love the one you’re with

    April 6, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    That’s the way I like it. No really.

    April 5, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    now she’s flowin’, he said..

    April 4, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    it ain’t me babe

    March 25, 2012
  • “These folks are hefty in the musical sense. It should be “retrospective” instead of reminiscence. It’s classic jazz [...]

    hefty in the musical sense

    March 22, 2012
  •  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 [...]

    it’s hot ~so let’s take off our clothes

    March 3, 2012
  • “man I love opera..shit!” Kathy McIntrye (my sweety’s aunt). The Barber of Seville is March’s first entry and an awesome [...]

    a pretense of drunkenness will disarm the old doctor’s suspicions.

    March 1, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    Paris in the Spring.. how romantic

    February 29, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    What’s Love Got to Do With it?

    February 24, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    the performance of a lifetime ~Benny

    January 24, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    sweet Lorraine

    January 21, 2012
  • 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! [...]

    don’t think twice, it’s alright

    January 15, 2012
  •               If you had guessed by looking at this gorgeous womyn that she was a handful of blues, you’d be [...]

    queen of the blues

    January 7, 2012
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