Tom Waits- Rain Dogs (1985) ****
Screamin' Jay Hawkins- At Home With...(1958) **
The Courettes- The Soul Of...The Fabulous Courettes (2024) ****
Scritti Politti- Cupid & Psyche 85 (1985) ***
Bobby "Blue" Bland- Two Steps From The Blues (1961) ****
Curtis Mayfield- Never Say You Can't Survive (1977) ***1/2
The Nice- Autumn To Spring (1973) ****
Jack White- Frozen Charlotte (2026) ****
The Rolling Stones- Foreign Tongues: Sal Edit (2026) ****
The La's- S/T (1990) ****
The Kinks- Face To Face: MONO (1966) ****
I was reminded by my friend cmealha of a post I had written in 2022 about bands with gimmicks, one of which was The Courettes. I had totally forgotten about them, but cmealha recommended their most recent album, promising it was better than their 2022 release. He was right. Here is that post, if interested.
Here's something I should have known. I was surprised to find out that Johnny Ace, who had a hit with "Pledging My Love," was first a piano player in the Beale Streeters Blues Band, with guitarist Riley "B.B." King and singer Bobby Bland. What a band.
3 comments:
I am not enough of a Kinks expert, but my personal favorite Kinks album (after Village Green) is Muswell Hillbillies.
But I would have listened to none of them without your advocacy oer the years.
The Courettes latest is on my Top 10 so far this year..
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