1001 Albums
Category
145 – Johnny Cash at San Quentin
Aged just 37 years old, Johnny Cash returned to prison, this time in San Quentin, California following his Folsom Prison outing
144 – The Gilded Palace of Sin
A fallout in The Byrds, led to Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman forming the Flying Burrito Brothers following their successes with Sweetheart of the Rodeo
143 – Blood Sweat and Tears
Ok, we’re back with the 1001 Albums project, let’s see how far I get, although I note that if I couldn’t sti..
142 – Crosby, Stills and Nash
Crosby, Stills and Nash were the first Supergroup (Crosby (The Byrds), Stills (Buffalo Springfield) and Nash (The Hollies)), though they might not have realised it at the time
141 – Bayou County
Everything I hated about Zappa and Beefheart, is the opposite here with John Cameron Fogarty’s Creedance Cle..
140 – Trout Mask Replica
This is my listen to Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, with their influential album Trout Mask Replica. For “influential”, I usually hear “self-indulgent crap” and this album is the rule, not the exception.
139 – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Back on it, with Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Sounds good to me, I’m guessing this is when Americana, as I know it, began
138 – We’re only in it for the Money
‘We’re only in it for the Money’ is just self-indulgent hippie crap featuring the usual psychedelic tropes I’ve come to learn about on this 1001 Albums journey, namely: San Francisco…..
137 – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
In the middle, or beginning should I say, of a global Coronavirus pandemic when the instruction from the Gov..
136 – Astral Weeks
Slip slidin’ in the slipstream on the cherry road
Containing my very favourite Van Morrison song,..