Steve Earle — 509

MVC Rating:  4.0/$$$ ALBUM: Guitar Town (1986) I feel like this is one of those records I discovered. Before anybody else was hip to Steve Earle, I had this, his first album. ( A lot of people jumped in at Copperhead Road). Of course I am being facetious. Earle’s star was growing with this first …

David Olney –290, 289

ALBUMS: Contender w/ the X-Rays (1981); Eye of the Storm (1983) MVC Rating: Contender 4.0/$$$; Eye of the Storm 3.5/$$ Five-dollar cover was a lot back in the day. That was the cost of a brand new album. But for that $5 bill you would get into the little roadhouse club called the Casino in …

Dixie Dregs — 527

ALBUM: ‘What If.’ (1978) MVC Rating: 4.0/$$ I have a story about the Dixie Dregs. Must have been around 1978 and I was hanging out with Catherine (my future bride), Rose and Carol in downtown Athens, Ga. We were all high school buddies and happened to be walking past the Georgia Theatre when some folks …

5 at 5, a random shuffle game

OK, I’m introducing a new thing. Actually, it’s an old thing. A random play, shuffle I-Pod show down, a ‘game’ we used to play when I was at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek. (Hat tip to Chris, Michelle and Andrea.) It goes like this, at 5 p.m. we would pick up our music …