Old Enough to Forget

Look at that, six months in, and I'm keeping up with my once a month schedule of dropping five snapshots of albums I've found. This time around it's another mixed bag of goodies, these are all new to me, which is generally a lot of fun. I finally picked up Stan Meissner's debut, and it was a nice score. I also found more Edgar Winter albums, and continue to go down the Rick Derringer rabbit hole - the man was a monster player and while not underrated he was certainly under appreciated by the masses. Probably my favourite album this time out, was finally connecting with Ian Thomas' debut album from 1973 what an incredible album. Yeah, full props to "Painted Ladies" and the drama about the hit that never was, but there is so much more to this Canadian icon. I worry that he will be nothing more than a footnote as time passes as the majority of his work remains out of print and only to be found my looking for old vinyl. Criminal, I say. Shame . shame - shame. ...

The year was 1979 and the battle between good and evil raged through the land. Disco was making it pretty much impossible to listen to the radio. Still it was a good time for rock and roll. I remember hearing Moon Martin and really liked "Rolene" but at the time I never picked anything up. Fast forward through the years, and I did have a decent retrospective on CD that covered the bases, but I wanted more. Recently I was digging in the bins, and I found a decent copy of Street Fever , which was his third album in three years. It was good, really good but I wanted to find his debut (let's be honest, as good as his version of "Bad Case of Loving You" is, Robert Palmer really made it his own) or his follow up Escape from Domination . As fate would have it I found a copy of the latter and brought it home for a little loving care. Aside from a nick in the vinyl on the second track, which isn't as bad as I'd excepted, it cleaned up real good (extra points for...