Turntable
Saturday April 16, 2011 marks Record Store Day celebrating the art of music and the sub culture of the independent record store. Indie retailers of music around the world gather forces on the third Saturday of April each year with an increasing number of special releases, events and performances presented as part of the big day. Hot Wax Records in Calgary will be participating with things goin' on all day, check it out!
After coming across a copy of Abbey Road on Eight Track at the Flea Market a week or two ago I'm having a listen to my well loved and well played vinyl copy. Note the hand claps in Here Comes the Sun. Now that is a mix! I'm not sure if the new remastered versions of some of this stuff could really 
be an improvement. I think I would miss the familiar surface noise, pops and clicks. So...how 'bout a copy of Abbey Road on Eight Track Tape? I will be posting it on the Garage Sale very soon. Great retro item. Interesting to see the cover art with the name of the band and the album on the front cover unlike the record with no name on the famous Abbey Road crosswalk cover art.
Hard to pick a favourite but I think that I would have to include the White Album, Abbey Road and Let it Be to be on any desert island list.
Records, records, records, John loves records...Hey welcome to my record room. I must admit it is one of my favourite places in the world to be. I have been collecting now for many years and have assembled a modest library of recordings that in many ways document my growing up as well as my developement as an artist. My collection has become like a photo album to me, each record or the sound of one song on an album prompting a detailed picture of moments, places or people. I still have everything from the now ragged copy of Beatlemania my Mother gave me when I was six to a recent ebay purchase of a Waits 45 from the Orphans sessions. Record collecting has always been alluring for me. Something about it caught me early on.
I've just been listening to an almost mint copy of Albert King: Born Under a Bad Sign. I've never had a really good copy of this record just a very worn old pressing I picked up somewhere years ago. This one 
is an eighties reissue that looks to have never been played, a stamped promo copy, perhaps stashed away by some retired record rep. or radio music director. Amazing to hear how King so clearly built one the more important bridges from
blues to rock. His distinct single notes and string bends tower over everything thereafter.He was so just out in front of it all. It is easy to hear his powerful influence on so many. Cool record with a soulful horn section, that Stax production and the KING of tone. Very tasteful and honest arrangements and Wow what a guitar slinger!!! I met Albert King a long time ago briefly as he was loading in at the back of the stage at Ontario Place on a bill with Buddy Guy and Jr. Wells. He was wearing a ZZ Top ball cap. He gave me a b/w promo photo and signed it AB King with a red ball point. I've wanted a ZZ Top ball cap ever since.
Hope you'll drop in to Rutherford's Record Room and see what's on the turntable again sometime soon. I better shut down the old direct drive, I should be practicing my own music to get ready for the CD Release Tour beginning in January. Check out Live Shows, I'm adding dates all the time, lots still to be announced.
