Full transparency – I have a handful of records by some, shall we say, questionable human beings. And if I’m being totally honest, some of them aren’t questionable so much as awful. Sometimes the music is good and I suffer from a bit of cognitive dissonance in finding the artist abhorrent but the art itself […]
Month: September 2026
Record Shopping – Nashville, TN Style
The missus and I decided to spend last weekend out in Nashville, Tennessee. Which as it turned out was hotter than the surface of the sun for most of the visit. But that didn’t stop us from getting out to at least half a dozen record stores, so I figured I’d give you my take […]
Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard – “Wedding Hotel” (1987)
I have to confess that there plenty of bands that I like, but despite liking them I still can’t name most (if any) if their members. This means sometimes I miss making connections between bands, as well as overlook interesting solo material. Wedding Hotel is one such case. Nikki Sudden was a founding member of […]
Flames of Hell – “Fire And Steel” (1987)
Normally I try to avoid unofficial releases of actual albums. I’m fine with picking up a live Led Zep record from a show in the in 1970s, but I wouldn’t buy some bootleg copy of Houses of the Holy. The former gives me access to something that the band themselves never put out. The latter […]