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Neil Rajala
Jun 21, 20234 min read
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Spring Harvest Has Surely Come, Pt. 1
Time to play catch up - spring is gone, summer's here. I’ve been listening to and living with a lot of new releases over the last few...
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Neil Rajala
Apr 18, 20233 min read
CRATE DIGGING: Lawrence Welk & Johnny Hodges
I've been feeling like Mr. Teflon for the last month or so. I’ve been listening to my weekly batches of new releases and none of them are...
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Neil Rajala
Jan 1, 20232 min read
BEST OF 2022: Reissues, Box Sets, Etc.
This best-of-2022 batch includes the stuff record companies dug out of their vaults and released, often for the first time; remasters...
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Neil Rajala
Dec 2, 20226 min read
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: November Leftovers!
November is the month for indulgence, right? If we do it correctly, we have too much food, football, and if it’s an even-numbered year,...
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Neil Rajala
Nov 15, 20226 min read
DIRTY DOZEN: 12 Bad Records by Great Bands
I don’t typically dabble in negative reviews – life’s too short and there’s too much great music out there to talk about - but I was...
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Neil Rajala
Nov 7, 20224 min read
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Leonard x 3
I’ve been on a serious Leonard Cohen binge lately, revisiting favorites and catching up on the records I missed the first time around....
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Neil Rajala
Aug 15, 20226 min read
ECity BUYER’S GUIDE: Bruce Springsteen
Yeah, I get it, who buys music anymore? I thought about calling this series a Listener’s Guide instead. But I grew up accumulating music...
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Neil Rajala
Jul 11, 20229 min read
CELLULOID HEROES - 10 Favorite Concert Films
This list’s pretty self-explanatory, just a couple of quick things to mention. I included films that are pretty much all live performance...
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Neil Rajala
Jun 22, 20225 min read
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Easy to Hard
I took a slightly different approach to this roundup. I tried to put myself in other's shoes and rank these records in order of...
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Neil Rajala
Jun 9, 20224 min read
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Getting Caught Up
Time to get caught up on the last couple weeks of new releases before the new batch arrives tomorrow. These are the records that stuck on...
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Neil Rajala
May 31, 202219 min read
TAMING THE BEAST: A Walk on the Wild Side.
Lou is in an elite category of musical heroes for me. Like the Stones, Miles, the Beatles, a few others, I lost all ability to be...
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Neil Rajala
May 27, 20226 min read
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: A May’s worth of earworms.
Some new discoveries, some old favorites. Here are the albums that got stuck on my personal playlist in May. No particular order, I just...
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Neil Rajala
May 2, 20229 min read
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE: One Record to Rule Them All
I’m kind of inventing my own category for this post. It was triggered by spinning a couple of albums on this list recently. These are...
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Neil Rajala
Apr 19, 20227 min read
What Happened Next? – The Cars (and the New Cars)
I totally loved these guys when they first arrived in the late 70s. Their first few albums were like a breath of fresh air in the time of...
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Neil Rajala
Mar 29, 20227 min read
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN – Marching forward.
If you need any convincing that women are having an impressive commercial impact on the music industry these days all you have to do is...
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Neil Rajala
Mar 14, 20227 min read
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN – Three recent gems.
New releases are in full swing now, racing along in pre-pandemic numbers. Bands are touring again, so they want their records out. Some...
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Neil Rajala
Mar 9, 202214 min read
TAMING THE BEAST: 10 Favorite Linda Ronstadt Albums
Those of you who read these posts or know me personally are aware that I have a decent-sized vinyl record collection that I cherish. I’ve...
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Neil Rajala
Feb 17, 20224 min read
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE: A pair of outstanding modern gospel records.
Mick Jagger once famously sang “I need a shot of salvation, baby / once in a while.” Apparently, that’s true even for a heathen like me,...
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Neil Rajala
Feb 15, 202210 min read
TAMING THE BEAST: 11 favorite David Bowie albums
Bowie’s catalog is a tough one to assess over the long haul. He continued to make excellent albums up until his death in 2016, but from...
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Neil Rajala
Feb 7, 20223 min read
QUICK TAKES: My Current Playlist
New releases are finally starting to roll out in earnest in 2022 and a few have been stuck in my personal rotation since they arrived....
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