Making Believe-Kitty Wells (Decca 9-29419)
Poor Side Of Town/Baby I Need Your Loving-Johnny Rivers (Silver Spotlight Series)
CDs
Stone Sour-Come What(ever) May (Roadrunner 2006)
Glenn Miller-America's Bandleader (Bluebird 2002)
Best Of Hudson &Landry (Dore 1998)
The Marty Stuart Hit Pack (MCA 1998)
Atlantic Jazz-Soul (Atlantic 1988)
Rolling Stones (London 1964)
Rolling Stones 12X5 (London 1964)
Weezer-Van Weezer (Atlantic 2021)
Spring Processing 2021 was the most toughest that I have ever been in. There was no shortage or drama, pettiness, and bouts of deep depression. The frustrations of watching scanners freeze up, causing another run to process things and working with bad form that curled up and got chopped off at the slitter. To which I sacrificed my time, effort and caring enough to put away my guitar playing just to get things done. And in the end, management rewarded up with a ice cream sandwich.
In my 33rd year at the helm, a change of head of operations happened. Our long time head of ops, have decided to step down to help care for his wife stricken with cancer. The new guy is a horses' ass. Of course I came into the building, with hands full but my mask was not on my face, i had it around me but i did put it on, to which said he gave a thumbs up and still reported to my boss that I didn't have my mask on even after putting it on. But there's something to be said about shaven bald head guys with a scruffy goatee, Gillette had the perfect song about him. With our boss retiring at the end of the year, I'm sure we'll get a new one that will stress about taking away our time off in the summer. To which if I can keep my big mouth shut, in five years I can retire and learn what it's like to finally be happy not fighting the traffic, red lights, nature's animals and weather that has made me age 10 years in three months of spring processing.
On a plus side, the temps that I trained were the best that we ever had in a while. One of them got hired on in the other department. She was a very hard worker and deserved to be a perm.
Spring Processing Greatest Hits (K TEL 2021)
Contains 22 hits that you all know and love.
Take This Job And Shove It (Johnny Paycheck)
Smokey Factory Blues (Steppenwolf)
Young Man's Blues (Elton John)
Reached Out-Stone
Keep On Working-Peter Townsend
Brother My Cup Is Empty (Nick Cave)
Stick It Where The Sun Don't Shine Nick Lowe
Medley-Rainy Day Woman (Dylan)/They're Coming to Take Me Away (Napoleon XIV)
It's A uphill Climb To The Bottom (Walter Jackson)
Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) Pink Floyd
God Damn Job-(The Replacements)
Short Dick Man-Gillette
Sixteen Tons-Don Harrison Band
Working In A Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey)
Too Much Paranoia-DEVO
Dead Souls-Joy Division
Move Over-Steppenwolf
I Don't Care About You (Fear)
Rank And File (Rank And File)
Don't Talk To Me About Work-Lou Reed
The Morning After-Maureen McGovern
Pitchfork has been not too kind to Weezer, bashing the new album Van Weezer to the point that Rivers Cromo took a diss to them with a new song. But to be honest Pitchfork hasn't been a big Weezer fan outside of Pinkerton. I do think Van Weezer is better than the Black album, with some heavy metal riffs that become a pop song. The Crazy Train rip is fun, She Needs Me winks at Nirvana (or Green Day) and Precious Metal Girl wouldn't sound out of place if Firehouse sang it. Van Weezer pales next to the Blue Album or Pinkerton but I do think Pitchfork was a bit too harsh for this album. Even when Weezer failed going Beach Boys, they sounded like they were having fun. For almost 31 minutes, it doesn't stick around too long. A nod and a wink to Eddie Van Halen, in Weezer's own fun way.
The Glenn Miller Bluebird album is another hit and miss on the cherish bandleader. We do get a live version of In The Mood and the ballads tend to bore than amuse. I never cared much for the vocal group that he had. A wild version of Anchor's Away and American Patrol performed live are the highlights, But not enough to hold my interest after a couple plays.
Stone Sour is a more melodic hard rock band than Slipknot and of course any album with Corey Baker will draw comparison. The ballad Through Glass was mundane enough to make it on the rock stations but I tend to enjoy the harder rocking numbers more. The Best Of Hudson/Landry collects highlights from the comedy duo 60s and 70s era, Ajax Liquor Store has never been all that funny, but the Bruiser La Rue comedy sketches made me LOL as well as the Obscene Phone Call, with sound effects to bleep out the F bombs. Marty Stuart's Hit Pack (MCA) shows Stuart still trying to keep up with Brooks and Dun on the two step If I Ain't Got You and two songs with Travis Tritt. The game changer The Weight would find Marty searching for a Americana roots rock sound that he would start adding to on later albums. Don Cook held Marty back a bit with the two step, but Buddy Holly set him free with Tempted. For a overview of the MCA years, it's not bad but I may have to seek out Tempted, or The Pilgrim, the record that turn Marty into the guardian of the old country music that he (and me) grew up with.
More Half Price Books Finds.
Terry Fell-Truck Driving Man (Bear Family)
Jim Ford-The Unissued Capitol Album (Bear Family)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd-Leadbetter Heights
Miles Davis-Birth Of The Cool Plus (Hoo Doo Import)
The Blues Scene (Deram 1967)
Terry Fell wrote Truck Driving Man which became a big hit for Buck Owens and also for George Hamilton IV and many others. This Bear Family comp has all of Terry's X and RCA recordings of the mid 50s (one lone 1969 RCA single can be found on a Singles Import) and outside of Truck Driving Man, not much stands out, tho Caveman is a funny rockabilly number but most of the time Fell goes for a Lefty Frizzell/Hank Sr vibe. Jim Ford is a cult artist to which Nick Lowe is a fan and covered his 36 Inches High on Pure Pop For Now People. Kenny Wayne's Ledbetter Heights shows his Stevie Ray Vaughn love, but lacks a lead singer to pull the songs off and the production is way too slick and Stevie Ray and Howling Wolf still owns Commit A Crime. The Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool is his 1949 classic that reinvents jazz, for 3.99 you get a bonus bunch of live radio dates that makes this a bargain. And Best Of The Blues is a old Deram Blues Comp with lots of tracks from John Mayall And the Bluesbreakers, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Otis Spann, and many others.
