Living with Lewy Body Dementia
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease
ALBUMS: Greatest Hits (Reissue: 1982 of 1975 release); Truth In Time (1978); Soul Survivor (1987) MVC Rating: Greatest 5.0/$$$$; Truth 4.0/$$$; Soul Survivor/$$$ One of my favorite artists — all time. I have three albums that capture the essence and soul of a man with essence and soul. He was the best at covering other’s …
Death is sad. When it is a topic in a song you often have the ingredients for a tearjerker. I have a list compiled from readers and a separate list called Editor’s Choice, which follows the first list. This idea originated from a review I did recently for My Vinyl Countdown of the song ‘Honey’ by Bobby Goldsboro. I …
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ALBUM: Greatest Hits (1980) The Gatlin Bros. are a little out of my realm. But I remember why I got this. Someone or someones were saying how much I looked like Larry Gatlin. I didn’t really follow the Gatlins but I knew they were wildly popular in the 70s and 9. So with every one …
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Some of My Vinyl Countdown’s top posts. As of today, here are songs taken from the most-clicked on and the ones that received the most reaction, some judgement calls here by me. So we’ll have Top 12 music reviews from my 678 records. This is followed by the Top-12 blog essays. And we’ll also throw in …
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ALBUMS: Rumours (1977): Mystery to Me (1973) MVC Rating: 5.0/$$$$ Fleetwood Mac was another ‘soundtrack-of-high-school record for me, it was 1977 andI I was 17. The girls liked this record because it was relationship oriented, albeit, broken ones. And it was melodic. The boys loved it because Stevie Nicks was a good looking, sultry singer. And …
ALBUMS: Volume 1 Blind Joe Death; Guitar Vol. 4; MVC Rating: Blind 4.5/$$$$; Guitar 4.0/ $$$$ John Fahey’s music is hard to categorize. And he may have been the most influential guitarist you’ve never heard of. Not a shredder, but a plucker. He said he considered himself a classical guitarist. But the category he …
I’ve reviewed 167 albums on my way to knocking off the 678 that makes up my collection. That means 511 to go. I do them and post them in alphabetical order, for the most part. That number you see beside the reviews is where that record fell in the countdown. For example King Sunny Ade …
ALBUMS: Eagles Greatest Hits (1976), Hotel California (1976) MVC Rating: Hotel 4.0/$$; Hits 4.0/$$ Get over it people. The Eagles are the most maligned great band of all time. And that’s not right. And these records, both from 1976, are two of the biggest selling albums of all time. Part of this venom comes from …
Below are some links and excerpts from stories I wrote about my new status at AL.com It’s all good. Really good. Bottom line: I’m now going to be writing full time as a columnist. Here’s part of what I wrote and published on AL.com Friday. A little over a year ago I wrote a column …
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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, …