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Marion Williams - Nine hundred body bags came home from Vietnam in December of 1967. My friend Ziggy brought his friend Eric Clapton over and we watched a Lyndon Johnson speech with the
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - The duets of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were recorded in forever ago 1967. What songs were on that CD? Oh, just classics: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” “You’re All I Need
Mavis Staples - If you're of a certain age, this CD is an invitation to time-travel back to the 1960s. Not the '60s of war protest. Or the '60s of sex, drugs and
Otis Redding - Otis Redding died on December 10, 1967 --- can it really be half a century ago? The New Yorker looks back and sees what I do: a great creator, the
Otis Redding: Live in Europe - One of the greatest live recordings ever made begins with the corniest of introductions --- a self-consciously “groovy” MC has the French audience spell out the star’s name. I cringed;
Otis Redding: Love Man - In music, I look for pure protein. Major thrills. Titanic emotion. I bounce around my downloads, looking for ultra-real, and more often than not, I end up in the same
Otis Redding: The Immortal Otis Redding - Otis Redding was one of those Olympians who are fantastically good at everything. He could shout. He could dance. He had a straightforward, honest, high-testosterone presence --- he was, as one
Sade - When was the last time you thought about Sade? Unless you're a connoisseur of late night romantic music, it was at least 8 years ago --- because that was the last
Spirit in the Dark - There's a lot to be said for loud music; raw energy is the foundation of rock. But there's also a lot to be said for quiet music, like Chopin, that you have
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration - When “The Summer of Love” enters the conversation, most of us mean San Francisco, 1967. Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead. Be-Ins. Flower Power. Sgt. Pepper. If by
The Dionne Warwick Collection - How can you tell if you're young? Well, when you think of Dionne Warwick, do you think of those infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network? Is the last thing you remember about
There Will Be a Light - A few years ago, Americans flocked to a George Clooney movie. When they left the theater, they went immediately to music stores and bought the soundtrack. And suddenly "O Brother
Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece - For more years than most of you have been alive, I have believed that Astral Weeks is Van Morrison’s transcendent work. And for as long as I’ve been publishing Butler,
