January 16, 2013
Bonny Billy and The Picket Line — Funtown Comedown

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The discography of Will Oldham — a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, a.k.a. Bonny Billy, a.k.a. Palace Brothers/Songs/Music — as a singer, songwriter, producer, and collaborator is so largethat it gives me anxious fits.…

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January 16, 2013

Bonnie “Prince” Billy — Puff the Magic Dragon

January 15, 2013
Blitzen Trapper — Furr

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A couple of years ago, I made a list of fifteen albums that I thought I’d be listening to for the rest of my life and posted the list on Facebook. The final slot was filled by Blitzen Trapper’s third album, Furr.…

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January 14, 2013
Blind Faith — Blind Faith

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I don’t like Eric Clapton. I didn’t live through the late sixties, when his fast-fretted work with Cream got people tagging “Clapton is God” on the walls of the London Underground, and I wasn’t around in 1970 for

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January 11, 2013
The Black Keys — thickfreakness

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Look at what ten years have done to The Black Keys. The two-man blues of thickfreakness, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s second album, sounds like it was scraped off of a rusted flatbed, a product of The White…

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January 10, 2013
Delia Bell — Delia Bell

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My record collection used to be much larger. In addition to the albums I was picking up on my own, I used to also haul around every single record that either of my parents had ever bought, too. While Rachelle and…

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January 9, 2013
The Beatles — 1967-1970

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Do we have the strength for one more Beatles album in us? No? Well, me neither. But The Beatles 1967-1970is the very last one we’ve got–promise–and we might as well slug our way through it, in the name of…

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January 8, 2013
The Beatles — Hey Jude

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Released in 1970 as a stopgap between Abbey Road and Let It Be, Hey Judeis a collection of singles that manages to reach as far back as “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “I Should Have Known Better.” The album’s compiler,…

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January 7, 2013
The Beatles — Abbey Road

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Maybe it wasn’t just Beatles fatigue. I’m better rested than I was late last week, when the first few tracks of Abbey Road sent me reaching for The Big Chill’s two soundtracks, and my ears should have been more…

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January 4, 2013
V/A — The Big Chill and More Songs from The Big Chill

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I slid my dollar copy of Abbey Roadout of its sleeve this morning and noticed a half-inch-thick scratch across side one and my very first thought was lined with gratitude. I’ve got Beatles fatigue, and I’m…

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