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Johnny’s all-time favorite music publications- ranked!

13 Mar

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Criteria is based on many things, but, in a nutshell, this is what is important here: good writing, attitude, knowledge, originality, covering uncharted territory.

1. Creem
2. Punk
3. Bomp
4. Kicks
5. Slash
6. Your Flesh
7. Phfudd!/Black to Comm
8. Trouser Press
9. New York Rocker
10. Friction
11. Conflict
12. Forced Exposure
13. Ugly Things
14. Bucketful of Brains
15. Sick Teen
16. Rock Scene
17. Flipside
18. Seattle Rocket
19. The Bob
20. No Mag
21. Op/Option
22. Galactic Zoo Dossier
23. Ptolemaic Terrascope
24. Transmission
25. Savage Damage Digest
26. Crawdaddy
27. Zig Zag
28. Touch & Go
29. Search & Destroy
30. Teenage Wasteland Gazette
31. CLE
32. Away from The Pulsebeat
33. Damage
34. Punk Rock/New Wave
35. Freakbeat
36. Mojo
37. Ripper
38. Circus
39. Maximum Rock n Roll
40. Sweet Potato
41. The Wrap Up
42. And She Said
43. Cake
44. The New Number Two
45. Goldmine
46. Record Collector
47. RPM
48. Hot Wacks
49. Matter
50. Bang
51. Howl
52. Big Takeover
53. Seven
54. Sounds
55. New Musical Express
56. Q
57. Hit Parader
58. Super Rock
59. Boston Rock
60. Sound Choice
61. Stylus
62. Buzz (Minnesota)
63. Raygun
64. B-Side
65. Reflex
66. Flexi Pop
67. Fusion
68. Ice
69. Rolling Stone
70. The Record
71. Billboard
72. Alternative Press
73. The Face

Collectible Minnesota Black Gospel LPs

19 Jan

Please post any additions in the comments, and I’ll update the list.

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Thelma Buckner and The House of Refuge Choir Reach Me a Hand LP Narthex Records 827N-4579/80

The Cantinos Vol. I LP

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The Cantinos Touch Me LP

Sam Davis and The Gospel Ensemble Keep on Praising Him LP 1981 Cada Records 8005

Sam Davis and The Twin Cities Gospel Ensemble I’ve Been Changed LP 1980 Cada Records 3-79

Evangelist Crusaders a good source claims there is one more records released previous to these:

Evangelist Crusaders In The Beginning God LP Univeral Audio Corporation UAS-542-48690

Evangelist Crusaders Just Jesus LP 1979 Browntown Records 2000

Gospel Choirs United I’ll Be a Witness LP Cada Records 8002

Gospel Crusaders Quartet Present Go Down To Jordan KNOF Records SKR-LP 1016

Gospel Swanns Gospel Singers There’s Going to be a Pay Day LP Gospel Time Records 00109

Greater Sabathani Baptist Church Mass Choir The Little Church with the Big Heart LP no label

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Danny L. & The Brewerettes As For Me And My Household — We Will Serve The Lord LP no label or number

Metropolitan Male Chorus of Minnesota He Has Done Great Things LP no label 11370

Minneapolis Gospel Temple House Of Refuge LP KNOF Records SKR-LP-1159

Mount Olivet Celestial Choir Sings LP Sound 80 Records 853-37805

James Murray Command Performances LP Narthex Records 7506

John Patton Black Spirituals and Art Songs LP Narthex Recording Records 4582

Sounds of Blackness Images of Blackness LP Sound 80 Records 719-35765

Sounds of Blackness Images II LP no label 08116

Sounds of Blackness The Night Before Christmas- A Musical Fantasy LP ASI Records 398

Tom Tipton Hymns My Mother Taught Me LP Sparrow Productions 217

Special thanks to Mark Trehus & Eric Foss for filling in some detail here. Y’all got the spirit!

list of Sixties bands from St Paul as compiled by Zip Caplan of THE LITTER

25 Mar

Zip Caplan, lead guitarist and leader of legendary garage psychedelic monsters The Litter, is an affable guy who shows up at just about every Minnesota Record Show. He grew up in St Paul like me, so I recently posed a question to him that I’ve always wanted answered: there are lots of great sixties bands from Minnesota, but which of them were from St Paul specifically? For the price of a lunchtime hot dog, Zip wrote down a list of bands in pen for me, off the top of his head. Thanx Zip for satisfying my curiosity. (ed. note: One of the guys in The Deacons added Sir Lawrence and The Crescents to the list.)


The Uniques
The Escapades
The Continentals
The Rhythm Kings
Tim & The Galaxies
The Blackhawks
The Deacons
Keith Zeller and The Starliners
Alison Briston
Augie Garcia
The Tabs
The Corvettes

Sir Lawrence and The Crescents

Johnny’s list of all-time FAVORITE RECORDS

28 Dec

OK, this has been buried deep on the internet for long enough, so I’ll liberate it to the blog for your viewing (and hopefully listening) pleasure.

(one per artist only- 37 Hall of Fame titles in bold)

AC DC Let There Be Rock
Acetone York Boulevard
Action Speak Louder Than
Advertising Jingles
Aerosmith Rocks
Ahora Mazda s/t
Airto Natural Feelings
Alley Cats Nightmare City
Allin, GG Always Was, Is & Always Shall Be
Amon Duul II Yeti
Angel City Face to Face (US version)
Angry Samoans Back from Samoa
Anti Pasti The Last Call
AntiSeen Honor Among Thieves
Armstrong, Louis & His Hot Five Louis Armstrong story Vol. 1
Art Bears Winter Songs
Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel
Attack Complete Recordings from 1967-68
Au Pairs Playing With a Different Sex
Avengers The Avengers
Average White Band Soul Searchin’
Ayers, Kevin Whatevershebringswesing
B-52s B-52s
B.T. Express Do It (’til You’re Satisfied)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Not Fragile
Band, The The Band
Bardens, Peter The Answer
Barrett, Syd The Madcap Laughs
Battisti, Lucio Anima Latina
Beach Boys Sunflower
Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique
Beat, The The Beat
Beat Happening Jamboree
Beatles Introducing The Beatles
Bee Gees 1st
Bennett, Duster Smiling Like I’m Happy
Berry, Chuck Greatest Hits
Big Balls & the Great White Idiot Foolish Guys
Big Boy Pete Cold Turkey
Big Star #1 Record
Big Youth Screaming Target
Bird Nest Roys Bird Nest Roys
Birthday Party Junkyard
Black Devil Disco Club s/t
Black Flag Everything Went Black
Black Lips Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo
Black Oak Arkansas Raunch n’ Roll
Black Sabbath Masters of Reality
Black Slate Black Slate
Blackfoot Sue Nothing to Hide
Blacklight Braille Electric Canticles of The Blacklight Braille
Bland, Bobby ‘Blue’ Two Steps from The Blues
Blue Cheer Outsideinside
Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny & Mutation
Blue Phantom Distortions
Bohannon, Hamilton Insides Out
Boiled in Lead The Ladle to The Grave
Bolin, Tommy Live at Ebbet Field June, 1974
Bono, Sonny Inner Views
Bonzo Dog Band Tadpoles
Bowie, David Station to Station
Brigman, George & Split “Jungle Rot”
Brown, James “Sex Machine”
Brownsville Station “Yeah!”
Brubeck, Dave “Time Further Out”
Buckley, Tim “Blue Afternoon”
Bull, Sandy “Inventions for Guitar, Banjo, Oud…”
Burke, Solomon “Rock n Soul”
Burning Spear “Marcus Garvey”
Burnette, Johnny & The Rock n Roll Trio “s/t”
Butler, Jerry “Mr. Dream Merchant”
Butterfield, Paul Blues Band “East-West”
Buzzcocks “Another Music in a Different Kitchen”
Byrd, Donald “Black Byrd”
Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers
C.A. Quintet Trip Thru Hell
Cakekitchen Time Flowing Backwards
Cale, John Slow Dazzle
Cameo Ugly Ego
Can Tago Mago
Captian Beefheart Clear Spot
Carroll, Jim Catholic Boy
Cash, Johnny “Sings the Songs that Made Him Famous”
Charles, Bobby “Bobby Charles”
Charles, Ray “Rock and Roll”
Chatham, Rhys Die Donnergotter
Cheap Trick In Color
Cheater Slicks On Your Knees
Cheech and Chong Wedding Album
Chenier, Clifton The King of Zydeco
Cherry, Don Hear and Now
Chicken Shack Accept
Chills Brave Words
Chocolate Watch Band The Best of
Christ Child Christ Child
Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves
Circuit Rider Circuit Rider
Clark, Gene No Other
Clash London Calling
Clean Compilation
Cluster II
Cohen, Leonard Songs of Leonard Cohen
Coleman, Ornette Science Fiction
Coltrane, John Ascension
Commodores Movin’ On
Con Funk Shun Con Funk Shun
Cooper, Alice Love it to Death
Cortinas True Romances
Cosmic Psychos Go The Hack
Coyle and Sharpe On the Loose
Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us
Crap Detectors Victims of the Media
Cream Disraeli Gears
Creation How Does it Feel to Feel
Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmos’ Factory
Crystallized Movements Mind Disaster
Culturcide Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America
Culture Two Sevens Clash
C*nts The Fires of Spring
Cure Three Imaginary Boys
Cut Chemist Brainfreeze
Daft Punk “Homework”
Daggermen “Dagger in My Mind”
Dalton, Karen “It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best”
Dandy Warhols “13 Tales from Urban Bohemia”
David, The “Another Day, Another Lifetime”
Davis, Miles “Kind of Blue”
Davis, Spencer Group “I’m a Man”
Dawe, Tim Penrod
dBs Stands for Decibels
Dead Boys Young, Loud, & Snotty
Dead Moon Echoes of The Past
Debris Static Disposal
Deep Purple Machine Head
Del the Funkee Homosapien I Wish My Brother…
Denny, Sandy Sandy
Deviants Ptoof!!
Devil Dogs Devil Dogs
Devo Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Dictators Go Girl Crazy
Diodes The Diodes
DJ Boogie Pimps Up, Hos Down
DMZ DMZ
D.O.A. Hardcore 81
Doctor Feelgood Down By the Jetty
Doctor John Gris Gris
Doors L.A. Woman
Dr Bossman Steez to Please
Dream Syndicate Days of Wine & Roses
Dreamies Auralgraphic Entertainment
Droogs Stone Cold World
Ducks Deluxe s/t
Dungen 4
Dylan, Bob Blonde on Blonde
Earth, Wind, & Fire That’s the Way of the World
Eddie and The Hot Rods Life on the Line
Edmunds, Dave Trax on Wax 4
Eih, Damin, A.L.K. and Brother Clark Never Mind
Eire Apparent Sun Rise
Electric Prunes Stockholm ’67
Eleventh Dream Day Prairie School Freakout
Elton Motello Victim of Time
Elvis Brothers Movin’ Up
Embarrassment Hey Day 1979-1983
Embrooks Our New Day
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery
End Introspection
Eno, Brian Here come the Warm Jets
Entwistle, John Smash Your Head Against the Wall
Eric B & Rakim Paid in Full
Erickson, Roky Roky Erickson and the Aliens
Evans, Bill Sunday at The Village Vanguard
Evans, Gil Out of the Cool
Everly Brothers Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
Eyes Blink
Fabulous Thunderbirds What’s the Word
Faces A Nod is as Good as a Wink…
Factory Path through the Forest
Fagen, Donald The Nightfly
Fahey, John Blind Joe Death
Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking
Faith/Void “Faith Void”
Fall “Live at the Witch Trials”
Farren, Mick “Vampires Stole My Lunch Money”
Fatback Brite Lights, Big City
Faust So Far
Fear The Record
Feedtime Shovel
Feelies Crazy Rhythms
Fela and Afrika 70 Upside Down
Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat
Fire Underground and Overhead
Five Day Week Straw People s/t
Flame The Flame
Flamin’ Groovies Shake Some Action
Fleetwood Mac Then Play On
Flesheaters A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Flipper Generic Album
Fluid Clear Black Paper
Foghat Fool for the City
Franklin, Aretha Aretha’s Gold
Freddie Fresh B-Boy Stance
Free Fire and Water
Fugs Tenderness Junction
Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
Galaxie 500 On Fire
Game It’s Shocking What They Call Us
Gang of Four Solid Gold
Gasolin’ What a Lemon
Gaye, Marvin What’s Going On
GBH City Baby Attacked By Rats
Geils, J. Band “Live” Full House
Generation X Generation X
Gentry, Bobbie Touch ‘em With Love
Germs (GI)
Giles, Giles & Fripp The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp
Gizmos Never Mind The Sex Pistols, We’re The Gizmos
Go, The Whatcha Doin’
Godz The Third Testament
Godz The Godz
Golden Earrings Winter Harvest
Gong Camembert Electrique
Gouldman, Graham The Graham Gouldman Thing
Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk
Grateful Dead Live/Dead
Green Green
Green, Al Greatest Hits
Green, Peter The End of the Game
Groep 1850 Paradise Now
Groundhogs Who Will Save the World?
Gun Club Fire of Love
Guru Guru UFO
Guthrie, Woody Dust Bowl Ballads
Hampton Grease Band Music to Eat
Harper, Roy HQ
Harpo, Slim The Best of Slim Harpo
Haunted, The The Haunted
Hawkwind Doremi Fasola Tedo
Head Machine Orgasm
Heartbreakers L.A.M.F.
Heatwave Central Heating
Hell, Richard and The Voidoids Blank Generation
Hellacopters Payin’ the Dues
Helm, Levon Dirt Farmer
Hendrix, Jimi Experience Axis: Bold as Love
Henry Cow Unrest
Heptones In Love With You
Hitmen Tora Tora DTK
Hollies Hear! Here!
Holy Modal Rounders Good Taste is Timeless
House, Son Legendary Father of Folk Blues
House of Large Sizes “My Ass-Kicking Life”
Howlin’ Wolf “Moanin’ in the Moonlight”
Human Instinct Stoned Guitar
Human League Dare
Humble Pie Smokin’
Hurley, Michael Snockgrass
Hurriganes Roadrunner
Husker Du Land Speed Record
Hutch, Willie Soul Portrait
Hypstrz Hypstrzation
I-Roy Ten Commandments
Impressions Greatest
Incredible Casuals That’s That
Inmates First Offence
Insect trust Hoboken Saturday Night
Isley Brothers Forever Gold
Jackson, Joe I’m the Man
Jackson Five ABC
Jacobs, Henry The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein
James, Etta Tell Mama
James, Tommy and The Shondells The Best of….
James Gang Rides Again
Jandek Somebody in the Snow
Jason Crest Collected Works
Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter’s
Jerky Boys Jerky Boys
Jesus & Mary Chain Psychocandy
Jo Jo Gunne Jo Jo Gunne
Jobim, Antonio Carlos Wave
John’s Children Orgasm
Johnson, Linton Kwesi Dread Beat an’ Blood
Jones, George Country Song Hits
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny
July July
Kass, Norm Buckaroo and Other Guitar Country and Western Favorites
KC and the Sunshine Band KC and the Sunshine Band
Kids The Kids
Kilgour, David Here Come the Cars
Killing Joke Killing Joke
Kilslug Kilslug
King, Albert King of Blues Guitar
King, B.B. Live at The Regal
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
King Stitt Cool & Copasetic Selector Set
King Tubby King Tubby Upsets the Upsetter
Kinks Kronikles
Kiss Dressed to Kill
Kleptones A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Koerner, John Spider Blues
Koerner, Ray, and Glover Blues, Rags, and Hollers
Kool & The Gang Wild and Peaceful
Kossoff, Paul Time Away 9-15-71
Kraftwerk Computer World
Kweskin, Jim and The Jug Band Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band
LaSalle, Denise Trapped By a Thing Called Love
Labradford Prazision
Last Drive Heatwave
Last Poets The Last Poets
Lateef, Yusef Psychicemotus
LaVette, Bettye The Scene of the Crime
Lazy Cowgirls Tapping the Source
Lazy Lester I Hear You Knockin’- The Excello Singles
Lee, Arthur Vindicator
Les Fleur de Lys Reflections
Lewis, Jerry Lee Jerry Lee Lewis
Lightnin’ Slim Rooster Blues
Liquid Sound Company Exploring the Psychedelic
Litter Distortions
Little Bob Story High Time
Little Richard Here’s Little Richard
Little Walter The Best of Little Walter
Loney, Roy & The Phantom Movers Out After Dark
Loop A Gilded Eternity
Love Forever Changes
Lowe, Nick Jesus of Cool
Luna Bewitched
Lunch, Lydia 13.13
Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping
Lyres On Fire
Mack, Lonnie The Wham of That Memphis Man
Magazine Play
Magic Hour No Excess is Absurd
Mad River Mad River
Madonna Madonna
Mannequin Men Mannequin Men
Mayall, John Bluesbreakers Featuring Eric Clapton
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See
MC 5 Back in the USA
McCartney, Paul Ram
Mecki Mark Men Mecki Mark Men
Merry Go Round The Merry Go Round
Messiaen, Olivier Quator Pour La Fin Du Temps
Midnight Star No Parking on the Dance Floor
Mighty Diamonds Right Time
Miller, Roger Golden Hits
Miller, Steve Band Sailor
Mingus, Charles Mingus at the Bohemia
Minor Threat Out of Step
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime
Miracles, Hi, We’re The Miracles
Missing Links The Missing Links
Mission of Burma ONoffON
Misunderstood Before the Dream Faded
Moby Grape Moby Grape
Modern Lovers Modern Lovers
Monk, Thelonious Brilliant Corners
Monks Black Monk Time
Monster Magnet Dopes to Infinity
Montrose Montrose
Moped, Johnny Cycledelic
Morells Shake and Push
Morgen Morgen
Moroder, Giorgio From Here to Eternity
Mothers of Invention We’re Only in It for the Money
Motorhead On Parole
Mott The Hoople Rock and Roll Queen
Mountain Live at The Fillmore East
Move Best of the Move
Moving Sidewalks Flash
Mutantes Everything is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes
MX 80 Sound Out of the Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton
Negative Approach Total Recall
Negitivland Helter Stupid
Neil, Fred Fred Neil
Nervous Eaters Eaterville Vol. 1
Neu Neu!
New Christs Distemper
New Race The First & The Last
New York Dolls New York Dolls
Newbury, Mickey Harlequin Melodies
Newman, Randy Sail Away
Nicholls, Billy Would You Believe
Nico Chelsea Girl
999 999
NRBQ Scraps
Nugent, Ted Ted Nugent
Ohio Players Skin Tight
O’Jays Family Reunion
Only Ones The Only Ones
Opal Happy Nightmare Baby
Open Mind, The The Open Mind
Orbison, Roy The Very Best of Roy Orbison
Orchid Spangiafora Flee Past’s Ape Elf
Oswald, John Plunderphonics
Outsiders C.Q.
Pablo, Augustus East of The River Nile
Pack Pack
Pandora Space Amazon
Parker, Charlie & Dizzy Gillespie Bird and Diz
Parliament Mothership Connection
Pastels “Sittin’ Pretty”
Patto “Hold Your Fire”
Penn, Dan “Nobody’s Fool”
Pere Ubu “Dub Housing”
Perkins, Carl “Dance Album”
Perry, Lee ‘Scratch’ Black Ark in Dub
Phafner Overdrive
Pickett, Wilson Greatest Hits
Pink Fairies Never Neverland
Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pirates Out of Their Skulls
Plasmatics New Hope for The Wretched
Plastic Cloud Plastic Cloud
Plastic People of the Universe Egon Bondy’s…
Plasticland Wonder Wonderful Wonderland
Prado, Perez Havana, 3AM
Pratt, Phil & Revolutionaries Star Wars in Dub
Presley, Elvis 50 Worldwide Gold Award Hits Vol. 1
Pretty Things Parachute
Pointer Sisters Having a Party
Poison Idea Kings of Punk
Poobah Let Me In
Pop, The Go!
Pop Group Y
Pop, Iggy The Idiot
Pretenders Pretenders
Price, Lloyd Mr. Personality’s Big 15
Price, Ray Greatest Hits
Prince Dirty Mind
Prisoners The Last Fourfathers
Prisonshake A Girl Named Yes
Public Image Ltd. Metal Box
Quick Untold Rock Stories
Radio Birdman Radios Appear
Rain Parade Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
Rainbow Rising
Rainy Day Rainy Day
Ram Jam Ram Jam
Ramones Leave Home
Rank & File Sundown
Rawls, Lou Live
Ray, Dave Snaker’s Here
Real Kids Real Kids
Really Red Teaching You the Fear
Records, The The Records
Red Crayola The Parable of Arable Land
Red Cross Born Innocent
Redd Kross Third Eye
Reed, Jimmy The Best of Jimmy Reed
Reed, Lou Street Hassle
Relatively Clean Rivers Relatively Clean Rivers
REM Murmur
Replacements Stink
Revolutionaries I Came, I Saw, I Conquered
Residents Commercial Album
Ride Nowhere
Robbins, Marty Gunfighter Ballads
Rockadrome Royal American 20th Century Blues
Rocket from the Tombs Rocket Redux
Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request
Rollins, Sonny Our Man in Jazz
Rose Tattoo Rose Tattoo
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
Rundgren, Todd Something/Anything
Rush, Bobby Live at Ground Zero
Rutles All You Need is Cash
Sacred Order 25 Songs in the Key of H
Sage, Greg Straight Ahead
Saint Steven Saint Steven
Saints (I’m) Stranded
Sanders, Ed Sanders Truckstop
Sanders, Pharoah Karma
Schaubroeck, Armand Steals Live at the Holiday Inn
Scientists Weird Love
Sconce, Jeff Ludic Despair
Scorpions Lonesome Crow
Scruffs Wanna Meet the Scruffs?
Secret Syde Hidden Secrets
Seger, Bob System Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s…
Shaggs Philosophy of the World
Shakin’ Street Shakin’ Street
Sherman, Alan My Son the Folksinger
Shiny Gnomes Wild Spells
Shoes Black Vinyl Shoes
Horace Silver Quintet Doin’ the Thing (At the Village Gate)
Simon, Joe Get Down
Simon & Garfunkel Bookends
Simple Minds Real to Real Cacophony
Simply Saucer Cyborgs Revisited
Sinatra, Frank and Antonio Carlos Jobim s/t
Sinatra, Nancy and Lee Hazlewood Nancy and Lee
Slade Slayed?
Slapp Happy Sort of
Slaughter and The Dogs Bite Back
Slowdive Pygmalion
Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits
Small Faces There are But Four Small Faces
Smith, Huey Piano” Havin’ a Good Time
Smith, Patti Horses
Smoke My Friend Jack
Snivelling Shits I Can’t Come
Social Distortion Mommy’s Little Monster
Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight
Soft Machine Third
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic’s Rendezvous Band City Slang
Sorrows Pink, Purple, Yellow & Red
Soundcarriers Harmonium
Spacemen Three The Perfect Prescription
Specials The Specials
Spedding, Chris Chris Spedding
Spence, Alexander Oar
Spirit Spirit
Spitballs Spitballs
Spongetones Torn Apart
Springfield, Dusty Dusty in Memphis
Sproton Layer With Magnetic Feilds Adjusted
Stalk-Forrest Group St. Cecelia
Staple Singers The Best of The Staple Singers
Stark Reality Now
Starship Commander Wooooo Wooooo Mastership
Staton, Candi Candi Staton
Steely Dan Aja
Stereolab Transient Random Bursts With Announcements
Stewart, Gary Out of Hand
Stone Harbour Emerges
Stone Poneys Stone Poneys
Stooges Fun House
Stranglers Black & White
Stravinsky, Igor Firebird Suite
Stuart Span, Mike Timespan
Subhumans Incorrect Thoughts
Sugar Plant Happy Trance Mellow
Suburbs In Combo
Suicide Suicide
Suicide Commandos Make a Record
Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World
Surf Punks Surf Punks
Sweet Desolation Boulevard
Swell Maps Collision Time Revisited
Szabo, Gabor More Sorcery
T.C. Atlantic Live at The Bel-Rae Ballroom
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
Tamba 4 We and The Sea
Tate, Howard Get it While You Can
Tea Company “Have Some Tea With The Tea Company”
Television Personalities The Painted Word
Th’ Faith Healers Lido
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta The Gospel Truth
Thee Oh Sees The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
Third World War Third World War
Thirteenth Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of…
This Heat This Heat
This Kind of Punishment In the Same Room
Thomas, Irma “Wish Someone Would Care”
Thompson, Mayo “Corky’s Debt to His Father”
Thunders, Johnny So Alone
Thundertrain Teenage Suicide
Tillis, Mel Life Turned Her That Way
Tomorrow Tomorrow
Toms, The The Toms
Too Short Life is…Too Short
Toots & The Maytals Funky Kingston
Tosh, Peter Legalize It
Toussaint, Allen Southern Nights
Trashmen Surfin’ Bird
Trower, Robin Bridge of Sighs
Turner, Ike & Tina River Deep, Mountain High
Turtles Turtle Soup
20/20 Look Out!
Twilley, Dwight Sincerely
Twink Think Pink
U-Roy Dread in a Babylon
UFO No Heavy Petting
Undertones “Undertones”
Union Carbide Productions “In the Air Tonight”
Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards
Urinals Negative Capability… Check it Out
Valente,Dino Dino Valente
Vaughn, Sarah In the Land of Hi Fi
Velvet Monkeys Everything is Right
Velvet Underground White Light White Heat
Vibrators Pure Mania
Vile, Kurt Childish Prodigy
Visitors The Visitors
Vodka Collins Tokyo New York
Voice of The Seven Woods s/t
Von Lmo Future Language
Wailer, Bunny Blackheart Man
Wailers Catch a Fire
Walker, Jr. & The All-Stars Greatest Hits
Walker, Peter Rainy Day Raga
Walker, Scott “Scott 3″
Warlocks The Mirror Explodes
Washington, Dinah The Swingin’ Miss D
Watson, Doc Elementary Doctor Watson
Wayne, John Texas Funeral
Weirdos Weird World Vol. One
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band s/t
Who Sell Out
Wild Tchoupitoulas The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Williamson, Sonny Boy Down and Out Blues
Wilson, Brian Smile
Wilson, Dennis Pacific Ocean Blue
Winter, Edgar They Only Come Out at Night
Wimple Winch 1966-1968: The Psychedelic Years
Wipers Over the Edge
Wire 154
Wright, O.V. The Bottom Line
Wyatt, Robert Old Rottenhat
X Aspirations
X Los Angeles
Yama And The Karma Dusters Up from the Sewers
Yardbirds Roger the Engineer
Yellow Balloon Yellow Balloon
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself inside Out
Yonkers, Michael Microminiature Love
Young, Neil On the Beach
Young Rascals Young Rascals
Zapp Zapp
Zero Boys Vicious Circle
Zolar X Zolar X
Zombies Odeysey & Oracle
ZZ Top Tres Hombres
v/a 18 King Size Rhythm and Blues Hits
v/a Anthology of Rhythm and Blues Vol. 1
v/a Battle of The Garages
v/a Beat of the Traps
v/a Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. III
v/a Chains and Black Exhaust
v/a Chocolate Soup for Diabetics
v/a Crescent City Soul box set
v/a Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks Vol. 4
v/a Hoosier Hysteria
v/a Killed By Death
v/a Never Mind the Bootlegs
v/a Nuggets box set
v/a Nuggets II box set
v/a Path Through the Forest
v/a Pebbles vol. 2
v/a Psychedelic Microdots
v/a Searching for Shakes
v/a Sixties Beat Italiano
v/a The Perfumed Garden
v/a The Psychedelic Snarl
v/a Those Were Different Times
v/a Wanna Buy a Bridge?
soundtrack The Decline of Western Civilization
soundtrack Rockers!
soundtrack The Sting

Tribute to the Minnesota Record Man- a paean to the hustler

17 Nov

The land of 10 billion records has some tall characters with their wondrous tales of record exploitation. Their genius and flaws shine brightly with an luminance of comedy and tragedy; their stories project theater of the mind at its highest form. Online or in person- they are the modern equivalent of the dime-store novel’s outlaw gunfighter, the Italian mobster, or the 6AM stoned rhyming pimp. The crowd hushes to a whisper as they enter the Record Show- it’s him! he’s here! The Record Man!

Here is a link list of all Minnesota’s trve playas (*brick and mortar included):

Hall of Fame

Heilicher Brothers
Don Leary’s Record Shop
Oar Folkjokeopus
Root Cellar
Kent Hazen
Treehouse Records*
Let it Be
Oldsberg
Roadrunner/Land Speed*
Hymie’s*
Cheapo/Landfill*
Freddy Fresh
tjnovak
Electric Fetus*
Young at Heart

The Rest

Extreme Noise*
Eclipse*
Yeti*
Shuga*
SwordKillers*
Tune Town*
Tim’s Music Shop
riffsahoy!
The Corduroy Carrot
Safe as Milk
grooves_in_orbit
Jayhawk1996
RockSale
Taly Ho Enterprises
Record Highs
Mr Zeros*
Vintage Music*
Omnidrew
royalslim
Car and Record Heaven
sanpeeps
adamtzolkin
Fifth Element*
Urban Lights*
Vital*
Know Name*
Down in the Valley*
Hi Fi Sound*
Discland*
Record Collectors CoOp*
minnman83
Jeffs Music Exchange
Tonka Tunes*
Rice Street Music*
Best of Times*
Homestead Pickin’ Parlor*
Laurie Booksellers*
Book House Dinkytown*
B-Squad Vintage*
Curb Browse and Buy*

The Ferrets “Record Man”

list of collectible Minnesota Jazz vinyl LP records

4 Nov

I’m gonna need A LOT of help here. Please comment with additions, and I’ll include them, OK?

Eddie Berger Be Bop and Soda LP 1982 Uptown Records 004

Eddie Berger Live at Williams Pub LP 1977 Uptown Records 003


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Eddie Blue Out of the Blue with Eddie Blue LP Gaity Records 606

Jimmy Bowman Sings Bobby Williams LP Jaybo Records

Reginald Buckner New Tides In Music Sound 80 Records 420

Crossover self-titled LP Atomic Theory Records 1002

Bob Davis Quartet Jazz From the North Coast LP 1957 Zephyr Records 22001

5909Roberta Davis For the Record LP 1975 Cookhouse Records 7328

7004Mike Elliott Atrio LP Celebration Records 5003

Mike Elliott Trio City Traffic LP 1977 Celebration Records 5007

Mike Elliott Diffusion LP Celebration Records 5702

Mike Elliott Solo Guitar LP 1981 Celebration Records 5881

Doc Evans Dixieland Concert Vol. 1-3 three diff LPs Soma Records

Doc Evans Encore LP Soma Records

Doc Evans Blues in Dixieland 10″ LP Joco Records 3302

Manfredo Fest After Hours LP 1972 Daybreak Records 2012

Manfredo Fest Brazilian Dorian Dream LP 1976 T & M Productions 51040 (reissued on CD by Omega Music of Poland)

Manfredo Fest Manifestations LP 1979 Tabu Records 35636

6553Flim and The BBs self-titled 1978 Sound 80 Records 102

Percy Hughes with The Red Wolfe Quartet I Remember Judy LP POD Records 1005

Bobby Jackson Cafe Extra-Ordinaire Story LP 1977 Ninth Note Records 007 (reissued 2010 by Jazzman Records)

Bobby Jackson Desriee Song LP 1978 Ninth Note Records NN2

Debra Joyce self-titled LP 1977 Fly by Nite Records JS-2

Bobby Lyle Trio 1960s Minnesota demo disc promotional record LP

Carol Martin For the First Time LP Mar Key Records 7156

Carole Martin The Music that Makes Me Dance LP Air Trac Records 141011

Mill City Seven The Mill City Seven LP Jazzology 19

Pat Moriarty and Phil Hey Let them All Come 1977 Min Records

 

Natural Life All Music LP 1977 Celebration/ASI Records 5006

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Natural Life Unnamed Land LP Celebration/ASI Records 5005

Gunnar Olness Gunnar Olness LP  1967 Go Records 101

Penumbra & Terry Grant In Touch LP 1976 Hot Steps Records

Billy Peterson Band Threshold of Surrender LP 1981 Celebration Records 5010

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Jeanne Arland Peterson Jeanne Arland Peterson Celebration Records CB 5004

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Pig’s Eye Computer and Traditional Jass Society Joys of Jass LP  Douglas Dynamics 721021

Linda Peterson Too Late to Leave Early LP 1981 Celebration Records 5015

Herb Pilhofer Octet Jazz North Coast Vol 2 LP Zephyr Records 12013

Herb Pilhofer Spaces LP 1979 Sound 80 Records 103

Herb Pilhofer Composer Arranger Producer LP Sound 80 Records 213

Herb Pilhofer Instant Production Music Vol 3 LP 1976

Herb Pilhofer Olympus One LP Good Sounds Records 101

Tom Prin Trio Even Par LP Even Par Records 101

Tom Prin Trio Here, There and Everywhere LP Sound 80 Records 358-2384

Tom Prin Trio Two for the Road LP Sound 80 Records 571-3106

Reuben Ristrom Trio I Love Guitar LP POD Records 1004

Robert Rockwell III Androids LP Celebration Records 5002

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Bill Samuels Sing’n ‘n Swing’n LP Gaity Records 88406

Tommy Tipton Full of Song LP DBT Records 217

Whole Earth Rainbow Band What’s A WERB? LP Wranebeau Records 99005

Whole Earth Rainbow Band Concerpt LP 1972 Wranebeau Records 1329

Whole Earth Rainbow Band Whole Earth Rainbow Band LP 1972 Wranebeau Records #S80-362-2382S

Irv Williams Mr. Smooth- A Bit of Ellington & and Others LP 1974 Cookhouse Studios 7313

Morris Wilson play Morris Wilson LP MoWil Records 31329

Morris Wilson Fantasy Island LP MoWil Records 38463

Shirley Witherspoon Shirley Witherspoon LP 1985 Shirell Records 1

Red Wolfe’s Port of Dixie Jazz Band Readin’ Writin’ & Rhythm! 1980 POD Records 1002

Red Wolfe Quartet Jubilee LP 1982 POD Records 1003

Steve Wright Big Band Take Two LP 1981 self-released

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