CD Albums - Reviews by leonard

CD Albums - Reviews by leonard

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leonard 14th Dec 2020		CD Album The Byrds [Soundalike] - Mr. Tambourine Man (2001)	Review You think you're coming home with a Byrds cd? Wrong! It sounds a bit like the Byrds though and a closer inspection learns that these recordings were licensed by a certain Pat Robinson. After listening four tracks it was clear to me: One For The Bin. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
leonard 5th Jun 2017		CD Album Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best (1997)	Review This was the first record I added to this site as a vinyl album. My favorite record, together with Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, of all time. Before listening be prepared: sit down comfortably, pour yourself a little glass of wine, but keep the bottle at hand. As I used to start with the B-side of the vinyl album start at track 6. A voice, goosebumps, shivering and shaking. Oh, this is really down and out. Drowning in the music, I'll never come out of these blues alive. Wait a minute: you say you're a music lover and don't own this album? Buy, steal or borrow, but get it. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
leonard 16th Nov 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Boddie Recording, Cleveland, Ohio (2013)	Review I took awhile before I had this as I wanted it…. A 10+ for the package and music. From the numero website: From 1958 to 1993, Thomas and Louise Boddie’s industrious Boddie Recording Company issued nearly 300 albums and 45s, recorded 10,000 hours of tape, and remained in operation longer than any other studio, pressing plant, or label group in the history of Cleveland. Long forgotten even by the standards of the chronically overlooked northeastern Ohio music scene, Boddie was a fusion of its owner’s engineering genius and his limited economic means, its DIY recording studio housed in a humble barn, churning night and day to capture the sounds emanating from Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods. The 58 tracks on these three CDs (or 65-track 5LP) represent the best of the Boddies’ in-house Soul Kitchen, Luau, and Bounty labels, which released an unspoiled treasure trove of kitchen-sink eccentric soul, fuzzbox funk, shoestring doo-wop, and haunted, eerily hook-laden spirituals. Enclosed inside is a mountain of office-styled ephemera: two massive booklets brimming with detail on the Boddies and their artists; extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos; a complete detailed discography folio; reproduced fliers; and a Boddie greeting card—all rendered with the handcrafted charm that was the Boddie hallmark. Call it a self-contained secret record industry crammed into one box. /i] 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?