Living with Lewy Body Dementia
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease
ALBUMS: The Best of Dolly Parton (1970); Best of Dolly Parton (1975); Dolly Greatest Hits (1982) MVC Rating: Best (’70) 4.5/$$$; Best (’75) 5.O/$$$$; Greatest (82) 4.0/$$$ I’m jealous. My friend and colleague Greg Garrison, AL.com’s religion reporter for decades, drove to Dollywood Thursday night and had an interview Friday with Dolly Parton. I’m Greg’s …
I started this blog in September of 2017 on the premise that I would review all of my 678 vinyl records. I set myself a fairly simple deadline — my death. Diagnosed a year earlier with Lewy body dementia, I didn’t know if it was possible for me to live long enough to fulfill that …
ALBUM: Tres Hombres (1973) MVC Rating: 4.5/$$$$ Well, if you had to guess what would be the last album on MyVinylCountdown list of vinyl records, as organized alphabetically, this would be a good guess. It’s pretty hard not to be at the bottom of an alphabetical list when your name begins with not only the …
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I couldn’t figure out how to scrunch the list. I will follow this post soon with a rundown of my Top 24 essays covering everything that is not a record review. Top 20 MVC reviews Views Joe Cocker 23,834 Willie Nelson 9,621 David Gilmour 8,367 Bobby Goldsboro 7,520 Lyle Lovett 4,093 David Lindley 3,262 Charley …
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ALBUM: Make Mine Country (1968) MVC Rating: 4.0/$$ I knew who Charlie Pride was from way back as a child. I knew he was the first African American country singer. My dad told me — I can’t even remember the context. Probably sitting around the television when Pride came on and I asked who he …
ALBUM: Legend (1984) MVC Rating: 5.0/$$$ The five key shapers of my love of music are all men. I say that only because I just noticed it as I began writing this. The father of three daughters I don’t feel sexist in this regard, but maybe I am. My five key shapers are The Beatles, …
Some of My Vinyl Countdown’s top posts. As of today, here are songs taken from the most-clicked on and the ones that received the most reaction, some judgement calls here by me. So we’ll have Top 12 music reviews from my 678 records.  This is followed by the Top-12 blog essays. And we’ll also throw in …
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I’ve reviewed 167 albums on my way to knocking off the 678 that makes up my collection. That means 511 to go. I do them and post them in alphabetical order, for the most part. That number you see beside the reviews is where that record fell in the countdown. For example King Sunny Ade …