Still here. Still alive and COVID-Free. Still maintaining amid death, batshit crazy and being in place. My father in law died earlier this month of a non-COVID condition and that's taken a lot of good emotions away from us.
I was referred for cataract surgery in September, had the surgeries in November and that has changed my life significantly. Now I can see distance but need readers for up close. It's been a profound adjustment.
Still buying music, listening to it when I can. It's hard to focus and my guitar playing time has suffered.
Here's the list of what I bought this year. The stars mean I really liked it. My two faves are Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways and Emma Swift's Blonde on the Tracks. It's been a Bob year.
Have not bought much vinyl due to COVID, but my recent nothing else to do but buy shit during COVID phase brought me some wonderful Japanese pressings, and the Dave Clark Five record is a revelation of rock and roll energy.
Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas, and I'll probably post a movies I watched entry next week. Be safe.
- Bobby Rush - Sittin’ on Top of the Blues
- Rough Guide to World Guitar Music
- Algiers - There is No Year
- Bill Fay - Countless Branches
- Basic Plumbing - Keeping Up Appearances *
- Ben Watt - Storm Damage
- Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again *
- Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
- Guided By Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field
- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues
- Nadia Reid - Out of My Province
- Maria McKee - La Vita Nuova
- Lily Hiatt - Walking Proof *
- John Prine
- John Prine - The Missing Years
- Dan Berggren in Concert (CD)
- Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- The Jam - The Gift (LP)
- The Amazing Nina Simone (LP)
- Lucinda Williams - Good Souls, Better Angels
- Ric Napoli
- Ric Napoli - The Atlanta Sessions
- Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
- Tony Allen - NEPA
- COVAID-614
- Cherry Chrome - Place of Love *
- Nick Tolford & Company - Lost My Mind
- Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions
- Badly Drawn Boy - Banana Skin Shoes
- Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice (LP) *
- Sondre Lerche -Patience
- The Explorer’s Club
- The Explorer’s Club - To Sing and Be Born Again
- Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways *
- Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
- Eccentric Soul - The CapSoul Label (Vinyl)
- The Jayhawks - Xoxo
- Freddie King - Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away
- Pretenders - Hate For Sale
- Gillian Welch - Boots No. 2. The Lost Songs Vol. 1
- Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Upstairs: Demos and Rarities
- Davey Horne
- Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks (download and LP) *
- Bebel Gilberto - Agora
- Feargal Sharkey
- Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blue
- The Who - Odds & Sods (RDS vinyl)
- Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Vinyl)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry’s Dream
- P.J. Harvey - To Bring You My Live (demos)
- Toots & the Maytalls - Best of
- Lydia Loveless - Daughter
- Denise Johnson - Where Does It Go *
- Jeffrey David DiCicca - The Unlikely Optimist and His Domestic Adventures
- Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler - In Memory of My Feelings *
- Betty Davis - They Say I’m Different
- Tom Petty - Wildflowers & the Rest (3LP & download)
- Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
- Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event Two: The Wrath of God *
- The Dirty Knobs - Wreckless Abandon
- Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight
- Straight Scared: A Columbus Tribute to New Bomb Turks
- Jill Lorean - Not Your First
- Belle and Sebastian - What To Look For In Summer (2-LP)
Used Vinyl
- Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
- XTC - Skylarking
- The Marachi Brass featuring Chet Baker - Double Shot
- Beatles For Sale (Japanese pressing)
- Rabbit - Broken Arrows
- Beatles - Abbey Road (Japanese pressing)
- Beatles - Help! (Japanese pressing)
- Issac Hayes - For the Sake of Love
- Dave Clark Five - 16 Greatest Hits (Japanese pressing)
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