45. Dusty Springfield – A Girl called Dusty
Handy Tip: When you listen to this album, one great way to improve the experience even more is to get…
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44. Solomon Burke – Rock n’ Soul
“Without soul, there’d be no rock and without rock, there’d be no soul.” – Solomon Burke Well I started this…
43. Jacques Brel – Olympia 64
So there we were driving to Ikea on Saturday morning, the lad in the back seat and a weekend ahead.…
42. The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
TWAAAAANNNNGGG!!!! There’s no mistaking the intro to this one. “A Hard Day’s Night” feels like a trumpet call – this…
41. Stan Getz/João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
When Stan Getz unleashed “Jazz Samba” with Charlie Byrd just a year before, he kicked off a revival of love…
40. James Brown – Live at the Apollo
One of the things that worried me when I started this 1001 albums adventure was that, eventually there were going…
39. Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
So how am I doing on this jazz stuff? Have I earned my stripes yet? By now there’s been a…
38. Sam Cooke – Live at the Harlem Square Club
Love this album. Sam Cooke, who was tragically (and suspiciously) shot in a hotel in 1964, never really got the…
37. Phil Spector and Friends – A Christmas Gift for You
Let’s face it – Christmas music is hardly the domain of musical genius… it’s a haunting and dark time where…
36. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
It’s interesting that, just like the last album I reviewed, this is not the debut of a legendary artist that…
35. The Beatles – With the Beatles
“IT WON’T BE LONG YEAH….” If ever an album burst into life, flying the flag for a revolution of music…
34. Ray Price – Night Life
Another hidden surprise here. Ray Price was a part of the country heritage that sprang up in 1940s Nashville. He…
33. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
The other night, I streamed this album over AirPlay as I was having a meal around a friend’s house, and it’s a telling testament to this bossa nova trailblazer that we were only about 30 seconds in before the conversation turned to “Mad Men”.
32. Booker T and the M.G.s – Green Onions
Seeing as it wasn’t long since Jimmy Smith liberated the Hammond organ from gospel church uncoolness, this fiery album,…
31. Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
It’s only when I look back now, in the context of the era, that I realise just quite how…
30. Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Who knows? Maybe I’ll start liking jazz after all. I’m sure there’s got to be a good fifty or so…
29. Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters at Newport
You know how I said I’ve been listening ahead on these, so usually I’m about five albums ahead of what…
28. Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack
There’s something nice about the sound of the Hammond organ. In these enlightened days when we can look back at…
27. The Everly Brothers – A Date with The Everly Brothers
Looking back, the years have not been kind to the Everly Brothers. They cranked more than a few hits in…
26. Miriam Makeba – Miriam Makeba
I do listen ahead when working through these albums and I’ve listened a few ahead at the time of writing…
25. Elvis Presley – Elvis is Back!
Isn’t he though? This was the album that shouted the return of the king after his bizarre army stint (although…
24. Joan Baez – Joan Baez
Finally, the sixties… When I told a friend that Joan Baez was coming up on the album list, his face…
23. The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m sort of getting the point of jazz just yet, but…
22. Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
I suppose with 1001 albums to get through, there were going to be some odd diversions, and this was…