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The Specials, More Specials, 1980 on Two-Tone

Second album from Coventry's own The Specials, with Jerry Dammer, Sir Horace Gentleman, John Bradbury, Dick Cuthell, Roddy Radiation, Lynval Golding, Rico Rodrigues, Neville Staples and Terry Hall. Several members of the Go-Go's join for backing vocals: Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, and Jane Wiedlin (who would co-write "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Hall). My copy—via Beverly Coin & Jewelry—is a UK pressing with the sticker advertising the additional 7" single but alas no single. […]

https://goatless.org/2026/05/29/the-specials-more-specials-1980-on-two-tone

John Eckman 3d ago

Herbie Hancock, My Point of View, 1963 on Blue Note

Hancock's sophomore album as a leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs NJ. Hancock joined by Donald Byrd (trumpet), Gracham Moncur III (trombone), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Grant Green (guitar), Chuck Isreals (bass), and Anthony Williams (drums). Herbie Hancock is a master, and it is wonderful to find the early Blue Note albums - I now have the first five in good vinyl editions. All the tracks on this one are Hancock originals - love "Blind Man, Blind Man" which recalls & […]

https://goatless.org/2026/05/28/herbie-hancock-my-point-of-view-1963-on-blue-note

John Eckman May 22

Mose Allison, Your Mind is On Vacation, 1976 on Atlantic

Allison's 10th record on Atlantic and 20th overall. Of course the rest of the title couplet is "but your mouth is working overtime." Great record, executive produced by Nesuhi Ertegun, with Jack Hannah (bass), Gerry Granelli (drums, Al Cohn & Joe Farrell (tenor sax), David Sanborn (alto sax), and Al Porcino (trumpet) - players vary by track. My copy—via Big Fun Records in Beverly MA—is a Presswell pressing with a promotional sticker on Atlantic labels.

https://goatless.org/2026/05/22/mose-allison-your-mind-is-on-vacation-1976-on-atlantic

John Eckman May 20

Lou Rawls, Live!, 1966 on Capitol

Fantastic early Lou Rawls live album, with a nearly six minute "Tobacco Road" and a couple of monologues. If you don't know mid-sixties Lou Rawls you are missing out. My copy—via Big Fun Records in Beverly MA—is a later reissue pressed by Capitol Los Angeles (with * in the runouts).

https://goatless.org/2026/05/20/lou-rawls-live-1966-on-capitol

John Eckman May 18

Mose Allison, Back Country Suite, 1957 on Prestige

Mose Allison's debut album, recorded at Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack in March 1957, with Taylor La Fargue (bass) and Frank Isola (drums). Largely instrumental. The song titled here just "Blues" was later recorded on Live at Leeds by the Who as "Young Man Blues": Well a young man ain't got nothing in the world these days My copy—via Beverly Coin & Jewelry—is the 1983 reissue in the Original Jazz Classics series. The OJC series is a great way to find these Prestige records in good […]

https://goatless.org/2026/05/18/mose-allison-back-country-suite-1957-on-prestige

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John Eckman Apr 24

Suzanne Vega, Flying With Angels, 2025 on Cooking Vinyl

Vega's tenth studio album and her first of new material since 2014. Bob Dylan gets cowriting credit on "Chambermaid" as a kind of alternate version of "I Want You." "Speaker's Corner" is a great song as well: I have a newfound sympathy For the madman in the square Who rants and raves his rhetoric Into the midday air My version—direct from the artist at a live show at the Cabot Theater in Beverly MA—is a signed copy on grey smoke vinyl.

https://goatless.org/2026/04/24/suzanne-vega-flying-with-angels-2025-on-cooking-vinyl

John Eckman Feb 7

Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Imperial Bedroom, 1982 on Columbia

Seventh studio LP from Costello and the sixth with The Attractions, out of F-Beat in the UK and Columbia in the US. A must have for collectors of Costello or indeed the whole new wave / alternative era of the late seventies to mid eighties.

My copy – direct from the artist at a show at the Cabot Theatre in Beverly MA with Steve Nieve — is a recent reissue by UMe, who now handle Costello’s catalog.