Was there anyone less likely to buy Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack to “Shaft” in 1971 than me?
I was a sports- and music-obsessed ninth-grader from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, then a nice German/Dutch town with almost no black population. I doubt 14-year-old white kids were anywhere near the target audience.
But when I heard “Theme From Shaft,” the single, on [...]
The picture atop this blog is from the edge of the big water — Lake Superior. It’s our son, Evan, taking pictures on a breezy September day along the ship canal in Duluth, Minnesota.
We’re putting our toe in the big water today, too. It’s the first entry in our audioblog adventure.
We’ll often be heading back [...]
What you will find here, once the mp3s start going up, are bits and pieces from my music collection. That collection dates to 1971, when I was 14. I started earlier, but no longer have my 45s.
My taste in music has been described by a friend who also blogs about music as “eclectic but impeccable.”
I’m [...]
I’ve been reading audioblogs for about a year now. I’ve been exposed to a bunch of new sounds I otherwise wouldn’t have heard. I have the folks listed at right — and some others — to thank for that.
They are among my favorite blogs, and most of the folks who run them have been a [...]
