It is late at night in the early ’70s.
You are listening to your local FM rock station.
A song comes on, its crunchy intro mixing some nasty wah-wah guitar with a little Hammond organ. Halfway through, there’s a pretty cool guitar solo.
Then you listen to the lyrics.
Well, your blacks are dyin’, but your back is still [...]
One day after writing about the passing of R&B singer Al Wilson and the roundabout manner in which I eventually came to learn more about him, this happened:
Evan had lacrosse over on the east side of town, which is where our used record store is located. Given the choice between an hour of watching lacrosse [...]
That was my reaction when I found “The Snake” on another blog last year.
I knew the song. I didn’t know a guy named Al Wilson had recorded it, nor did I know anything about Al Wilson.
I had another revelation like that last night, reading another blog. Tom over at One Poor Correspondent mentioned that Al [...]
This kept running through my mind as I rummaged through my local more-or-less indie record store on Saturday afternoon:
“Why do I want to buy this on CD when I can pick up the original vinyl for far less at the used record store? And get better sound?”
I guess I’ve become a vinyl snob. No apologies, [...]
By now, you’ve likely heard that Saturday is Record Store Day. Independent record stores across America are having special events.
Here in Green Bay, The Exclusive Company will have guest DJs in the store all day long. It’s part of small chain of stores reaching from here down to Milwaukee and over to Madison.
Tom has been [...]
