Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Ragged Glory, 1990 on Reprise

Ragged Glory was the 20th Neil Young studio album and the sixth with Crazy Horse. This is the height of Young as garage rocker, perhaps inspired by the grunge movement – Rolling Stone voted it 36th best grunge album of all time!

My copy is the “Smell the Horse” 3xLP edition from 2024 pressed by Record Industry in the Netherlands. This is a remaster of the original plus an additional 4 tracks discovered in the process of that remaster.

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Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions, 1964 on Blue Note

Hancock is joined by Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo and Chihuahua Martinez—though it’s not really what you’d call a Latin jazz album so much as post-bop or modal.

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his Englewood Cliffs studio.

My copy—direct from Blue Note—is the 2019 Blue Note 80 Vinyl Series reissue mastered for vinyl by Kevin Gray and pressed at Optimal Media GmbH – sounds great.

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Rodney Crowell, The Houston Kid, 2001 on Sugar Hill Records

Released on CD in 2001 but issued on vinyl for the first time in 2024, this was Crowell’s tenth full length album. Johnny Cash (Crowell’s former father-in-law) is featured on “I Walk The Line (Revisited).”

It’s a bit of an autobiographical concept album as Tony Scherman lays out in “Great Songwriter Mines His Past” – but you don’t have to know any of that to get it as a wonderful collection of songs.

My copy is the 2024 VMP reissue on “sepia marble” vinyl, pressed at GZ Media and cut by Barry Grint. (I think it’s still the only vinyl edition).

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Bobby Hutcherson, Montara, 1975 on Blue Note

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s ~13th album on Blue Note – west coast Latin jazz. Recorded in LA (Record Plant) in August 1975 and produced by Dale Oehler. Hutcherson passed in 2016.

My copy is part of the Vinyl Me Please Anthology The Story of Blue Note Records (2024 edition) which reproduces the mid-70s Blue Note labels.

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