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November 16, 2019

Saturday Spins: True Believers

True Believers are a hard band to pigeonhole into an exact genre

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November 9, 2019

Saturday Spins: Bob Dylan Travelin’ Thru

What makes this set so special is that includes Dylan’s work with the Man in Black, Johnny Cash

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November 7, 2019

Vinyl On Pace to Outsell CDs: Here’s What That Means

So it was moderately good news when the report that sales of vinyl records was on pace to outsell compact discs (CDs) for the first time since 1986.

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November 2, 2019

Saturday Spins: Jack White

Jack White said that the inspiration for the songs on this record come from short stories and plays he wrote and later unearthed in his attic.

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October 26, 2019

Saturday Spins: Ryan Adams

This album release is credited as a solo Ryan Adams record, however, musically it is a Ryan Adams & The Cardinals record through and through.

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October 19, 2019

Saturday Spins: Big Star

I discovered Big Star later on after they were championed by some of my favorite artists like Ryan Adams and Mike Viola

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October 12, 2019

Saturday Spins: The Grateful Dead

In 1970 the Grateful Dead released two albums in the space of four months drenched in folk-rock and Americana. One of these albums is American Beauty.

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October 6, 2019

Sunday Spins: Wilco

I did receive a consolation prize with my Wilco order though: a plain black number 2 pencil with “ODE TO JOY” carved into the wood.

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October 5, 2019

Saturday Spins: Sturgill Simpson

Sound & Fury is decidedly not a country album in any way. That is what makes it and Sturgill so great.This is also where the divisiveness sets in…

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September 28, 2019

Saturday Spins: Rancid Ska

This week I will be covering punk rock outfit Rancid. The twist is the randomizer spit out an official/unofficial compilation of their best ska tracks.

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September 21, 2019

Saturday Spins: The Go

On this week’s edition of the soon-to-be-popular Saturday Spins, a new release, really a reissue, by the little-known garage rock outfit, The Go.

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September 14, 2019

Saturday Spins

Gather round y’all and prepare to take a perambulatory adventure through the deep south on this edition of Saturday Spins!

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September 7, 2019

Saturday Spins

In order to put my ~600 LPs and EPs to good use, and to continue my war against streaming music and other low-quality ways to digest music, I have conceived the idea of reviewing...