Living with Lewy Body Dementia
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease
ALBUM: Pure Comedy (2017) MVC Rating: 4.0/$$$$ Lot of things going on here. Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty is a smart guy. I think he knows it. Pure Comedy is a song that is near brilliant. Tillman’s story in one sentence: The drummer of folk rock group Fleet Foxes …
ALBUMS: Ole’ ELO (1976); Outta the Blue (1977) MVC Rating: 5.0/$$$$$ Blue 4.5/$$$$$ My countdown continues with yellow vinyl. Is that a sign? You may have heard about the yellow bird. A beautiful yellow cardinal, the result of a rare genetic mutation, has been photographed and videotaped here in the Birmingham area. Now the bird …
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ALBUMS: Dion and the Belmonts 24 Original Classics (1984); Dion (1968) MVC Rating: Classics 4.5/$$$; Dion 4.0/$$ If you are going to cover Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix you better do it like Dion did it by totally deconstructing, making it virtually unrecognizable from the original. He made it a slow smoldering, jazzy nightclub song : …
AL ALBUM: I’m Your Man (1988) MVC Rating: 4.5/$$$$ Canadian, poet, novelist, singer, songwriter and musician. Which of these things does not go with Leonard Cohen. Some would say singer. And yet, that, and songwriter are probably what he’s known most for. His song ‘Hallelujah’ has many great covers (Jeff Buckley, Willie Nelson, k.d. lang, …
When I started this blog September, 2017, I said I’d write about a variety of topics all the while counting down my 678 vinyl record albums. It would give me something to distract me from my disease, I thought. It’s been much more than that; it’s been therapeutic as well. My main topic, of course, …