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Rhythm & Blues Brothers
Robert Baird  |  Oct 30, 2015  |  1 comments
It was with great pleasure that I slapped on my recently arrived LP copy of Dave and Phil Alvin’s Lost Time, which was released on September 18. Not surprisingly, given the brothers’ roots rock leanings, the sound here also has a healthy respect for the past. Dave Alvin’s guitar is drenched in reverb throughout, the mix is balanced (which is a minor miracle given lead singer Phil Alvin’s forceful voice and presence) and all the instruments—even the piano!—have great presence in the mix.
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Grind & Groove
Robert Baird  |  Oct 23, 2015  |  1 comments
They live to seek the little black holy grail…with the big hole in the middle.
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Scenes From Internet LP Buying
Robert Baird  |  Oct 16, 2015  |  17 comments
Say what you want about eBay and their fees, which are no doubt passed on to the customers, but photos do not lie.
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Mozart and Salieri
Robert Baird  |  Oct 16, 2015  |  1 comments
While diving into the totality of Mozart, or Beethoven as was done in Immortal Beloved sounds like fun, it’s actually hard as hell.
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Northampton Saturday Night
Robert Baird  |  Oct 02, 2015  |  1 comments
A lesser known but no less active music town is Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Errol Garner Remastered
Robert Baird  |  Sep 24, 2015  |  3 comments
The results are quite remarkable, as can be heard in this comparison between the original LP master and the 192/24 digital version archived in April of 2015.
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Soothe The Savage Barrence
Robert Baird  |  Sep 18, 2015  |  1 comments
It's hard to fully illustrate using just sound, the scene of a now 60-year-old man jumping, growling and working the stage like a mad man.
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Red Hook Records
Robert Baird  |  Sep 18, 2015  |  8 comments
It may now be more accurate to say that Brooklyn, New York is the record shopping capital of the world.
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Duke Meets Plank
Robert Baird  |  Sep 11, 2015  |  7 comments
A great, if not the greatest Krautrock engineer recording Duke Ellington in 1970 at Rhenus Studios in Cologne Germany?
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Dancing Queen
Robert Baird  |  Aug 28, 2015  |  3 comments
For Grace Potter it seemed inevitable that the clock was going to strike Midnight.
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In The Land of Aztec Camera, Teenage Fanclub, and Orange Juice
Robert Baird  |  Aug 21, 2015  |  0 comments
The Royal Mile has now unfortunately become the Scottish equivalent of Times Square, in all its crowded, annoying commercialism run amok glory. No topless women with the Union Jack or Saltire painted across their breasts yet, but give it time.
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London Calling
Robert Baird  |  Aug 21, 2015  |  8 comments
I swear I did not plan it, and it wasn’t obvious on the Google maps I pored over before we left but the back door of the fabulous Soho Hotel spilled right out onto Wardour Street, which was a block from Berwick Street, famous for its cluster, or more like the best cluster of independent record shops in London.
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A Visit To Abbey Road Studios
Robert Baird  |  Aug 07, 2015  |  4 comments
Call me a hopeless romantic but I could not get “Penny Lane” out of my head as I sat in the back of a black cab whizzing across a remarkably deserted London early one morning a couple weeks ago. “On the corner is a banker with a motorcar…” I was on a pilgrimage. More like THE pilgrimage. The one every serious fan of twentieth century music needs to make at least once. Out to St. John’s Wood and Abbey Road Studios.
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Leon Bridges
Robert Baird  |  Jul 31, 2015  |  3 comments
The young singer is cannily using the Cooke comparisons to his advantage.
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Fire and Ice
Robert Baird  |  Jul 10, 2015  |  7 comments
Bitterweet is easily the most lyrically confused record that Chambers, or any other pop music artist at her level, has released in recent memory.
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