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An eclectic listing of one baby boomer's recent Album purchases and links to pages where you can purchase them as well.

Eric Burdon

The Official Live Bootleg - Eric Burdon's i Band (Flying Eye Records, 1997) - only available through the Eric Burdon Connection and shows. Includes House Of The Rising Sun / You Got Me Floatin', Sky Pilot, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, When I Was Young, No More Elmore, Roadhouse Blues, and four more !

The Official Live Bootleg # 2. - Eric Burdon's i Band (Flying Eye Records, 1998) - only available through the Eric Burdon Connection and shows. Includes House Of The Rising Sun, Spill The Wine, It's My Life, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Good Times, Paint It Black, and four more !

Access All Areas Live - Eric Burdon/Brian Auger Band (SPV 086-93812 DOCD) - LIVE double CD containing early 90's versions of all of Eric's hits.

Roadrunners (Raven RVCD-11) Concerts and Radio Broadcasts 1966 - 1968. Unique opportunity to hear the line-up of the flower-power era Animals kick back and rock LIVE and in concert.

Eric Clapton / B.B.King

Riding With the King (Reprise 9 47612-2) - What can I say? You can't go wrong with either Eric or B.B.

Cold Blood

The Best of Cold Blood (GNP/Crescendo GNPD 2238) - I've been a Lydia Pense fan for a long time. I've never understood why Cold Blood is always overlooked by music historians, even those that go to great lengths to mention every time three or more people got together in San Francisco with a tape recorder. I was truly amazed (and pleased) that someone would put together a CD of this often overlooked band.

Dick Dale

Better Shred Than Dead (Rhino R2 72631) - Double CD, The Dick Dale Anthology. If you're prone to playing the air guitar, your wrists will ache after just one track (any track).

Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers

Pumping Iron & Sweating Steel: The Best Of Iron City Houserockers (Rhino R270375) - Rhino put out this "Best Of" collection of Pittsburgh's House Band. Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers are to Pittsburgh what The Michael Stanley Band is to Cleveland and Bruce Springsteen is to Asbury Park.

American Babylon (Razor & Tie RT 2820) - I don't know how to describe this CD without using Bruce Springsteen's name several times over. Working class singer-songwriter in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen (back when Bruce was still working class).

Down The Road Apiece (Schoolhouse Records SHR0009-2) Live!

The Jaggerz

And The Band Played On is a new, private label CD by this Pittsburgh white Rhythm and Blues band. The Jaggerz albums were always better than their national hit singles, and this one is no exception.

Mark-Almond

The Best Of Mark-Almond (Rhino R2 70571) - Progressive seventies soft-rock from these alumni of the John Mayall school of British Blues (Jon Mark and Johnny Almond). One of the few LP's I had to buy two copies of because the first copy wore out was Mark-Almond's first Blue Thumb LP. The entire first side of that first LP along with the best of their other albums are all on this CD.

David Lanz

Songs From An English Garden - I bought this CD the day it was released. Several years ago I heard a radio interview of David Lanz by Brian and Joe while they were on mornings, probably at WENZ. At that time he mentioned he was working on an album of 60's rock songs in the New Age style. I had never heard of David Lanz before, but based on a few segments he played during the interview, I'd been looking for that album ever since. Well, here it is. Included are "As Tears Go By / Ruby Tuesday", "Ferry Across The Mersey", "Conquistador", "Strawberry Fields Forever", six more sixties tunes and two new titles. This is the elevator music of my life, probably your life as well.

Billy Price

Can I Change My Mind, Pittsburgh blue-eyed R&B. I had read about Billy Price before, but my first opportunity to hear him was live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I could hardly wait to buy this, his latest CD! I was not disappointed!

Gary Puckett

As It Stands (Juslor JT8895), Gary Puckett's new CD includes the title track, a ballad that sums it all up for Gary right now, Are You Ready For A Miracle, the song he's currently opening his live appearances with, Hurt So Good, Secret Love That's My Story, Higher And Higher, Ain't Got Noth'n But The Blues, Keep The Customer Satisfied, and all his regular favorites (Lady Willpower, Over You, This Girl Is A Woman Now, Don't Give In To Him, Woman Woman, and Young Girl). Recorded LIVE in the studio to give you the feel of a Gary Puckett show, missing only the audience sounds.

A Golden Classics Edition (COL-5826) - The first two Gary Puckett and the Union Gap albums in their entirety on one CD PLUS the hits from the later albums. Twenty-seven tracks in all.

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap Greatest Hits (Sony A25159) - While this isn't the same as the original greatest hits LP (with Reverend Posey and Home), this compilation of ten songs does contain all the Union Gap hits.

Looking Glass (CK 48959) - Twenty tracks including all the Union Gap hits. Titles that aren't on either of the other CD's listed on this page include "Give In", "The Common Cold", "Can You Tell", "Every Hour", "Looking Glass", "Keep The Customer Satisfied", "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", and "Gentle Woman".

Brian Setzer

VaVoom! (Interscope 0694907572) - Although not advertised as such anywhere in the packaging, this is a 1-1/2 CD set (or rather a full length CD and a CD single with two bonus tracks). The bonus tracks are "Rock-a-beatin Boogie" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"). This is the fourth Brian Setzer Orchestra CD. I dare say his "swing" output far outweighs his "Rock-a-Billy" output. In another year or two, will anybody remember the Stray Cats? This is an acceptable effort, but if I were to have only one Brian Setzer Orchestra CD, I'd select one of the first two (either the self titled debut or "Guitar Slinger").

Various Artists

One Step Up / Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen (The Right Stuff 72438-59780-2-9) - Double CD of Springsteen songs done by other artists. Artists include John Wesley Harding, Joe Grushecky, Ben E. King, Joe Cocker, David Bowie, Gary U.S. Bonds, Southside Johnny and many, many others.


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