Dan Gould

Sad news. In addition to enjoying his work, I always felt a personal connection due to the fact that Garner was on-screen host for a documentary that Dad's company produced called The Presidents. It debuted during the bicentennial ... I never did ask Dad how he got Rockford involved, but it was a pretty cool thing when I was 11 years old, to say that my Dad worked with and knew Jim Garner.

And I bought that LP in June 2005 at Stereo Jack's.

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I do that too, but when I leave a tab open I often get an auto-launch video and the audio track messes up whatever snippet I am checking out at the time. Very aggravating. On the matter of reviews, I find them still to be quite useful on my most recent targets: blues/R&b comps from Ace and other labels.

I just gave a listen Jim and while I sort of get what you're talking about I can't distinguish between familiarity with the song and familiarity with that performance. I played this CD a lot back in the day, getting an excuse to listen again was good ... but I got no clue if its well known under a different title or not ...

And he must be from the future ... at least when he taped it. Doesn't that "DDD" in the upper right supposed to indicate that the recording started out "digital", was mastered digitally, and then outputted to CD? I thought "ADD" signified a CD that started as an analog source, was converted to digital for mastering and then outputted to CD. Neat trick if he recorded it digitally in 1974. Or, alternatively, it's just another booklet typo, to go with that "Sticky Vicket" title.

Nice setlist too:

Haven't gotten it yet but this came out in the late spring:

If you do the LP thing I think a lot of them can be found cheaply (I think I bought the three LPs that started my obsession because they were all $6 a piece, in good enough shape, and I had no idea how to eliminate one or another). The post-Duke, pre-Capitol years have some highlights too, especially Honey-Drippin' Blues where he went in a soul direction, trying for some hits. And don't miss Jimmy McGriff/Junior Parker on UA, a great live set. Just be prepared for Junior to keep saying "everybody say YEAH!" at the end of every song, several times each. Down home blues or a smooth uptown R&B, I can never get enough Junior Parker.

So if I spent the weekend mindlessly running searches through Bing, I'd accumulate points and could shop Amazon with them? Maybe this is the basis of all those "my mom got rich on the internet" ads.

Fivethirtyeight.com has a pretty interesting take on what constitutes Classic Rock: They also just published this follow up: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/classic-rock-started-with-the-beatles-and-ended-with-nirvana/

For me, one of the absolute greatest blues/R&B singers of all. I'm still glad that, for one reason or another (I think the price was right), I grabbed three LPs at one time, even though I had never heard him at the time. I was hooked from the moment the needle hit the groove on the first LP. I'm partial to the Duke material first but it's all good (until the end with those Capitol recordings). Ride with Me Baby is an excellent comp put out in 2012 that covers all of his recordings from 1952 to 1961. I'd love to see a second volume in the future. Sometimes Tomorrow is a fantastic posthumous release of (mostly unissued) Duke singles and some of those I consider among his best recordings ("What Kind of Love" "It Ain't Like That No More"). Always made me hope that there were other 45s that didn't chart and didn't get included on the various "best of" compilations and were equally good, so for a time I habitually searched eBay for Parker 45s and if I didn't have them, or the flip was the hit and I didn't have the B side, I grabbed 'em if the price was right. So yeah, you could say I'm a Junior Parker nut.

Dibs on the Randy Weston, if it hasn't been snagged.

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It still amazes me that in all the reissues of VeeJay material, the 45 Baby Face Willette recorded has never been issued. I recently saw a new VeeJay label comps on Amazon, thinking it might be there, but no. :unsure: Oh well - if you have Allen's blues set, you've heard the two tracks.

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There was an issue of dubious legality/quality a few years back, runs about $40 nowadays on Amazon Marketplace. It's odd because some of his other Cadet/Argo releases aren't so tough to find on vinyl but this seems to be pretty rare.

1. It would be recognized as one of his all-time bests of the kind, right up there with Alligator Boogaloo and The Natural Soul and Midnight Creeper. 2. It would be much easier to obtain because it would have been released multiple times ... Rare Groove, RVG. Hell it might still be in print. Lou, Bill Hardman and Grant Green never sounded better, and I was shocked to realize its Billy Gardiner on organ, I was sure it was Big John. Gardiner kicks butt! I'd normally say "YMMV" but if you've heard it, your mileage can't vary. This is classic soul jazz of an extremely high order. Who is with me?