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  • Randy Loyd: The Moment Randy Loyd: The Moment

    What an incredible record…fans of The Youngbloods and Poco should check this out. I was looking for good christian records at a St. Vincent De Paul, found this and took a fifty cent chance. It’s not overty christian at all but the label is Cartay, with a halo coming from the “t”. He writes most […]

  • Bob Reidenbach - Come Touch The Air Softly Bob Reidenbach - Come Touch The Air Softly

    As interest continues to surge in the softer sounds of yesteryear, it is apparent that a Soft Renaissance is upon us. This is no secret to deep diggers around the globe: rival collectors are frantically scouring the earth, scrambling to Out-Soft each other with unheard obscurities of extreme gentleness. Every now and then, the collecting […]

  • God Is For Real, Man God Is For Real, Man

    It’s taken me a good couple years to fully digest this lp, but I think I can now say with some degree of certainty that this is hands down one of the heaviest “non-music” lp’s I’ve heard. I mean, how could a 60’s record of ghetto kids interpreting the bible in jive talk be anything […]

  • Mark Biddelman - Shiru Ladonai Shir Chadash Mark Biddelman - Shiru Ladonai Shir Chadash

    I am hardly an expert on the subject, but I have seen my fair share of Jewish religious records in the field. More often than not they are Cantor Recitations or Childrens camp songs. Less often I will stumble onto an acoustic folk album. Rarely do I stumble upon Folk-Rock with a bonafide drummer, […]

  • Toby and Barb - Father Knows Best Toby and Barb - Father Knows Best

    OK folks. I admit it. I am a full fledged record hoarder. I am a good year into full on gluttony. Like daily thrift store visits, hours and hours in stores/dollar bins, weekends of garage/estate sales, ebay, craigslist, you name it. It is not easy with a wife and friends and neighbors. It is embarrassing […]

  • Rasberry Jam 2/People - If We Only Have Love Rasberry Jam 2/People - If We Only Have Love

    Dollar bin find! Blank back cover & a stock front, the only other info besides band & title:”Produced by Sid Kleiner’s House Of Guitars, R.513, Califon NJ”. The People side consists entirely of covers: the Bee Gees (Words, To Love Somebody), Beatles (Birthday), Jefferson Airplane (White Rabbit), Monkees (Shades Of Grey), and The First Edition […]

  • Lefon Andrews - Friendship With Lefon Andrews - Friendship With

    This is another inexplicable find from my favorite neighborhood thrift store (SEE ALSO: Joseph - Merry Christmas to You). I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but I was stirred to action when I learned that said thrift store closed forever this past weekend. I am sad. Seriously, that store was like a […]

  • Deborah E. Lillygren - Someday Deborah E. Lillygren - Someday

    Where do I start? OK, I paid $1.99 for this. I don’t know if it was the gold flourishes, the old-timey lettering…maybe it was the Corporate Seal of Approval from T.D.A. Incorporated Missouri… What is important is that I bought it, and now I am sharing it with you. The inside of the gate-fold, which […]

  • Kevin and April Ryan – Living in the Light – Acorn 1983 Kevin and April Ryan – Living in the Light – Acorn 1983

    Husband and wife duo’s always intrigue me when I come across them in the stacks of records I come across. This particular Lp caught my eye a year or so ago, first based on the strength of the cover and secondly when I realized that it was a husband/wife group that had a penchant for […]

  • Vanguard Singers: Hymns Hot & Carols Cool Vanguard Singers: Hymns Hot & Carols Cool

    I will absolutely buy any record with a priest playing bongo drums on the cover… and while admittedly this is not always a strategy that pays off, this did turn out to be an above average church kids album with a fairly “turned on” sound. Not thoroughly amazing throughout, but there is one track in […]

  • The Followers - Gospel Meeting The Followers - Gospel Meeting

    Normally I am not a big fan or hunter of gospel records.  The gospel field is so incredibly huge & filled with so many records that are so awful that it is pretty tough to know where to start.  So I guess I am a dabbler at best when it comes to gospel records.  I […]

  • Salvashun: the Time Has Come Salvashun: the Time Has Come

    This album was an unexpected surprise for me. At first glance I was thinking that this Lp was going to be some Xian/Rock nonsense. But since there was a Neil Young cover I began to think better of it. After proceeding to pay the exorbitant amount of .50 cents I took the record home for […]

  • Yathubhutha: Seeing Things as They Really Are Yathubhutha: Seeing Things as They Really Are

    Here is a nice Xian/Folk Lp off of Rite Records in Cincinnati, OH. Apart from having a great cover shot, this Lp delivers like no other religious Lp I’ve heard. Granted I’m not a huge fan of the genre, so my knowledge is limited to just what I pick up. Most being garbage.
    The female vocals […]

  • Selah: Consider These Words Selah: Consider These Words

    Based on the cover I got up fairly high hopes for this one pretty much immediately as I flipped to it. Unfortunately these mid-west Christian hippies only really get it together on a couple tracks here… but those tracks are good if not a bit out of step with the rest of the album. For […]

  • Universe: S/T Universe: S/T

    One of the better random thrift shop finds of the year for me so far, and one of the best and weirdest Christian lp’s I’ve heard probably ever. Genuinely spaced out and proggy in a crude and good way (especially for the late 70’s). Slightly reminiscent of Silver Apples at times, and pretty cosmic all […]

  • The James Herndon Singers ~ This Business of Living The James Herndon Singers ~ This Business of Living

    I’ve bought tons of gospel records in the past few years, some good and mostly bad (or too choral or lo-fi) But this one is by far my favorite and one I come back to the most often. It just has the pefect mix to me of soulful vocals, sublime backing female vocals, solid drumming […]

  • Autumn - Michigan Christian College Presents Autumn - Michigan Christian College Presents

    This is the sort of odd gospel LP that makes me keep digging for odd gospel LPs when I run out of other “good” records to dig through.  The first side of this record is great acoustic based pop gospel folk.  Nice songs, nice arrangements & nice singing.  Side two doesn’t fare quite as well […]

  • Kurt Van Arsdel - Golden Loneliness Kurt Van Arsdel - Golden Loneliness

    Private press californian gospel LP from 1981. On the back cover Van Arsdel looked so much like the bearded Dennis Wilson that I had to give it a spin. I know this is the first pressing because it says so on the label, helpful. You can google Kurt van Arsdel and find […]

  • Michael Dobbins - Music For The Seeker Michael Dobbins - Music For The Seeker

    Bing Crosby drops acid and wakes up in a ditch outside an ashram with a long unkept beard and a clear plastic bag holding his personal belongings.
    Confused, blinking against the desert sun, he senses that he must keep on seeking. Walking down the empty road, he comes upon a Stranger. The Stranger speaks of many […]

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