I'm so glad I didn't know about ECM when I was a teenager. I probably would have hated it. But I love a lot of what they did, and I'll grab anything with Gary Burton or Eberhard Weber from any era.

i have a ludwig pressing that's maybe g-. whatever the worst you can be without skipping. it's so bittersweet.

He was 11 years older than I am right now. I do not like that, not one bit, no sir

The front cover of the Bob Dylan Fragments (Time out of Mind Sessions: Bootleg Series Vol. 17) box set

The back cover of the Bob Dylan Fragments (Time out of Mind Sessions: Bootleg Series Vol. 17) box set

when Dylan's album of welp-gonna-die-soon songs came out, I assumed he was 89, and I refuse to look up how old he actually was

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The front cover of D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar"

The back cover of D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar"

This would have been an instant classic if it came out in 1965, 1975, 1985, 2005, 2015, 2025, or 2035. Timeless.

The front cover of Kate Wolf's "Give Yourself to Love"

The front cover of Kate Wolf's "Give Yourself to Love"

I would have been obsessed with this album if I'd found it decades ago, when I was deep in the No Depression weeds. It's so good, and it has a Santa Rosa shoutout from Rose Maddox on the back.

J. D. Blackfoot - The Song Of Crazy Horse After Mercury released The Ultimate Prophecy in 1970, J. D. Blackfoot went through many changes personally and professionally in a relatively short time. He parted ways with his band. His relationship...

This guy describes it as "Mountain and Captain Beefheart" and that's a pretty danged good description. www.thequietone.net/post/j-d-bla...

The front cover of J.D. Blackfoot's "The Story of Crazy Horse"

The back cover of J.D. Blackfoot's "The Story of Crazy Horse"

[Verse 5] Sioux warriors teach your children The white man's evil tongue Make them know the name of Crazy Horse And the battles he has won So they will know the truth When it's knowledge that they crave Let them sing of the Land of the Free And the Home of the Brave And of the Great White Father that dug my grave [Verse 6] Brown rivers once were blue Now the fish float upside-down Ancestral burial grounds That's where you've built your towns The smokestacks from your factories They pollute my skies You slaughtered all my buffalo And you left me here to die And all of this you have done in the name of God

I've been looking for a J.D. Blackfoot forever, and I found one in an Indio bargain bin. It's a little southern, a little prog, a little blues, and the lyrics go pretty danged hard. A really fun listen.

"You gonna eat that" isn't much of a personality, but it's at least a *kind* of personality.

Maybe my all-time favorite example of “you don’t listen to the cover.” Got this for two bucks today, and while the cover is roached, the record is glossy and clean. It sounds great.

Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Shirley Scott, Ramsey Lewis ... So weird to think about that with the benefit of hindsight. Maybe just let people enjoy themselves?

haha, ralph gleason was having a BAD day

Will do!

The front cover of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs

The back cover of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs

i would like to introduce you to my son, Rain Dogs

The front cover of Illinois Jacquet's "The Message" with Kenny Burrell.

The back cover of Illinois Jacquet's "The Message"

Such a good album. I love late-career jazz legends putting their spin on a more modern sound. You won't be surprised to learn that Kenny Burrell is amazing on it.

The cover of “Swing Reunion”, a box set of a concert from 1985 featuring Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Red Norvo, Louis Bellison, Remo Palmier, George Duviver, and Freddy Green.

The back cover

Today’s afternoon estate sale find. I’m sure two dozen flippers passed on it because it’s not worth much, but the music rules.

Don't know it at all, tbh! A perfect example of an album that I'll buy when I see it, but probably won't pay to have sent to me.

The front cover of "Roots" by The Everly Brothers

The back cover of "Roots" by The Everly Brothers

Think that every time I listen to this masterpiece, I'm going to post about it. It should get "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"-type love.

The (red) front cover of "Comin' Home Baby!" by Mel Torme, atop my red record shelves

The back cover of "Comin' Home Baby!" by Mel Torme

The title track is perfect, the album is great, the cover is a minimalist masterpiece, and the color matches my shelves. 10/10.

The cover of Testament's "The New Order", with a hype sticker that reads "Includes Nobody's Fault/Trial By Fire." I"ll have to see if those cracked the top 20 MTV Countdown back in the day.

It's not all jazz! This is one of the prides of my collection, just because of the promo stuff and the Bay Area roots.

There's a story with this one, but the short version is that I found it in a Goodwill for $1. Amazing, bluesy album. Love to hear Hawk in a 12-bar kind of setting, just to mix things up.

"but never thought to seek out the record" of course

The front cover of Solomon Burke's "Don't Give Up on Me"

The back cover of Solomon Burke's "Don't Give Up on Me," with an impressive list of songwriters that includes Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello and more.

My favorite kind of record store find: an album that I know backward and forward, but never thought to seek out the album.

Oh, yeah. It's a great one, even if it's ... uh, overwhelming. And possibly dangerous.

it should be like a rookie card, imo!

this album is great. If the baritone sax took over the '80s instead of the tenor sax, we'd have health care by now

I'm more into trading records in these days, and they give very fair offers.

The front cover of Gerry Mulligan's New Sextet's "Idol Gossip"

The back cover of the album ... which features Gerry Mulligan absolutely balling out with long silver fox hair and a well-manicured beard, wearing bell bottoms and wailing the fuck out of a gigantic baritone sax.

All in all, a very good day at Econo Jam Records, especially in their bargain bin. I would have bought this for $3 just to hear what he was doing in the '70s, then I saw the back cover. People talk too much about "Vegas Elvis" and not enough about "Silver Fox Gerry Mulligan"

A great way for me to tell if I'll like a record that isn't in high demand is if it was repressed in Japan, especially in the last decade. They know ball, so trombones, vibraphones, and vocals never fell out of style there. Listening now, and it's great.