It’s not every day that you find a classic album for $2.
But last Saturday, in one of the crates at a booth at a nearby antiques mall, was this great album from 1957: “The Wildest!” by Louis Prima.
If you saw Keely Smith duet with Kid Rock at the Grammys the other night and wondered why, [...]
Archive for February, 2008
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February 15, 2008Tina’s tunes
February 10, 2008Tonight on The Midnight Tracker, we catch Ike and Tina Turner just past the peak of their popularity.
They’d hit it big with covers of Sly Stone’s “I Want to Take You Higher” in 1970 and John Fogerty’s “Proud Mary” and the Phil Spector-produced “River Deep, Mountain High” in 1971.
But by 1972, when “Feel Good” was [...]
Sweet Lou
February 1, 2008When Lou Rawls passed two years ago, the music blogs were full of wonderful tributes and samples of his remarkable performances.
Ever since, I’ve been looking for just the right Lou Rawls album. I’d come across several, but they just weren’t it. One or two good cuts, especially on the albums from the late ’70s on, [...]
