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Category: Wax Wonders

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Don’t Bring Me Down (Live ’78)

Posted on October 3, 2017February 7, 2023

Putting on a Tom Petty record at wall shaking volume is one of life’s finest, simple pleasures. Tom Petty’s entire career is a wax wonder, and one thing that has […]

Wax Wonders :: Bob Dylan – From A Buick 6 (Alternate Take)

Posted on May 25, 2016June 18, 2020

Happy 75th to a poet, a rock ‘n roll icon, a folk sensation, and a living legend. Stop and take a moment to fathom that number; 75 years. Bob Dylan […]

Wax Wonders: Grateful Dead – Anthem Of The Sun (1971 Remix)

Posted on March 13, 2016January 18, 2022

A cornerstone of psychedelic music, 1968’s Anthem Of The Sun has long been unfairly brushed off by critics and heads alike. While the group were unhappy with their studio debut […]

Wax Wonders :: Abdou El Omari

Posted on March 2, 2016May 11, 2021

In the mid ’70s, to western ears, records rarely arrived more exotic than these Moroccan beauties featuring organist Abdou El Omari. Combining rock / funk / progressive jazz and (very […]

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers :: Fooled Again… / Live 1976

Posted on February 8, 2016February 8, 2016

It’s kind of hard to fathom that, at one time, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were a band that a lucky punter could see in a small club. Fortunately, Shelter […]

Dave Davies :: Creeping Jean (1969)

Posted on August 12, 2015May 16, 2022

During a period when the Kinks commercial stock was at a particular low ebb, both Ray and Dave Davies were experiencing songwriting and performing peaks that, while appreciated early on […]

Nick Ashford :: I Don’t Need No Doctor (1966)

Posted on August 12, 2015

A soul classic, the most famous recording of “I Don’t Need No Doctor” was cut by Ray Charles, and later, by many a rock & roller (Humble Pie and Chocolate […]

Manu Dibango :: Dikalo (1973)

Posted on July 15, 2015July 15, 2015

Manu Dibango will forever be known as the artist behind the 1972 worldwide smash ” Soul Makossa “, but his career spans much deeper than that one immortal track. This Cameroon-born sax man has […]

Wax Wonders :: Sonic Youth – Singles

Posted on June 8, 2015April 18, 2022

Unlike many bands that sprouted out of the DIY ethos set into motion by the release of Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown 7” in 1978, Sonic Youth were a few years into their […]

Wax Wonders :: The Rain Parade

Posted on May 6, 2015May 6, 2015

In honor of The Rain Parade appearing in Los Angeles last week, here’s where it all began; 33 years ago at 45 RPM. In the early 1980’s the Los Angeles music scene was […]

Wax Wonders :: RIP Don Covay

Posted on February 10, 2015

As the years march on, it’s only inevitable that we lose the musical heroes of days gone by at a steady and sad rate. Our most recent loss is the […]

Wax Wonders :: Los Angeles Soul – Part One

Posted on November 6, 2014

While the music scene in 1960’s Los Angeles is far better known as a hotbed of surf, psych, and pop records, there was always a strong R&B scene in smog […]

Wax Wonders :: Chicago Soul, Part Two

Posted on August 27, 2014August 27, 2014

When soul music aficionados get together and start talking music, the inevitable question of preference between ‘Detroit vs Memphis’ almost always seems to arise, to which my response is ‘YES, […]

Wax Wonders :: Soul Unknowns – Part One

Posted on August 6, 2014August 5, 2014

As a long time fanatic of ’60s soul and rock & roll, there’s no shortage of records whose information is either completely or mostly lost to history. And it wasn’t […]

Wax Wonders :: Bettye LaVette

Posted on July 21, 2014

Betty LaVette has been a powerful force in soul music for over fifty years since her 1962 debut recording which was cut when she was 15 years old. Betty was born in […]

 
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