Mississippi John Hurt “Today!” Vanguard One of the most famous “rediscoveries” of the Folk Blues Revival of the 1960s was that of Mississippi John Hurt, who before this 1966 release (shortly before his death that year) had not recorded since 1928.   This is an essential blues album of standards and originals (that have become standards) including my favorite, “Candy Man”.   And the cover photo by Ed Freeman!   What a simple, beautiful, honest portrait of the man.

Side 1

• Payday
• I’m satisfied
• Candy man
• Make me a pallet on the floor
• Talkin’ Casey Jones
• Corrina, Corrina

Side 2

• Coffee blues
• Louis Collins
• Hot time in the old town tonight
• If you don’t want me. Baby
• Spike driver blues
• Beulah land

(62 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5)

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“Popeye’s Zoo” Animal Songs and Stories By Popeye and Friends.   Noble Records.   King Features.

(35 votes, average: 2.20 out of 5)

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Bobby “Blue” Bland   “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do” Duke Records   [1964]     Cover illustration by Rene     Original label was orange.   Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-78.   Ain’t Nothing You Can Do/If I Hadn’t Called You Back/Today/Steal Away/After It’s Too Late/ I’m Gonna Cry //Loneliness Hurts/When You Put Me Down/If You Could Read My Mind/Reconsider/Black Night/Blind Man

(39 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5)

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“Road Runner” Jr. Walker & The All Stars On Motown’s Soul subsidiary label. (1966) A stone cooker from Jr. Walker — the kind of hard-driving soul that made his 60s Motown work a key link between the Detroit sound of the time, and R&B sounds of earlier years! Jr‘s soulful sax is right up in the mix on most numbers — and the overall sound is nicely freewheeling and almost spontaneous — almost a Motown studio jam at times, with vocals and instruments dancing together in joyous formation! Most tracks are instrumentals, but many also have some sort of vocal chorus — and titles include “Anyway You Wanta”, “Pucker Up Buttercup”, “Twist Lackawanna”, “San Ho Zay”, “Money”, “Last Call”, “Ame Cherie”, “Mutiny”, and “Road Runner”. – Dusty Grooves

(33 votes, average: 2.30 out of 5)

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From the United Fruit Company, Chiquita Banana live at Pacesetters!

(35 votes, average: 2.43 out of 5)

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“Peanuts – Friends – Music” At the National Peanuts Festival in Dothan, Alabama. Check out “Little Miss Peanut”! (I was thinking it was odd that the cover features 1968’s “Alternate Queen” — maybe the winning Peanut Queen was found to have posed in the raw.)   Features the anthem “Here’s to the Peanut,” a rollicking sing-a-long ode to the glorious goober!

(43 votes, average: 2.98 out of 5)

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Bounding Billy Carlisle and his Little Carlisles   Mercury Records

(42 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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“Nos Amis De La Tele”   Philips

(27 votes, average: 2.15 out of 5)

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The Redmans “I Feel So Good About It” Rainbow Records

(54 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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Gilberto Cruz “Chanchullo” Tico Records (1971) LISTEN at GetBack.com   New York Salsa.

(34 votes, average: 2.88 out of 5)

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