Nice Steve. I was up in Ferguson and Dellwood the other day. I passed the site at the corner of Chambers and West Florissant that Peaches Records used to occupy. I was up there with my older sister there the year that Fogarty released his first solo album - 1973 I think. I was really getting into bluegrass then and asked about it. Somebody said that it was John Fogarty (it didn’t have his name on it then). I’ve heard Hank Williams ‘Jambalaya’ but I don’t think I’ve heard any others. I just looked it up: he’d recorded all the instruments on that album, too. Have you gotten a chance to listen to the album? Is it worth looking into? Anyway, I miss my weekly visits to Peaches, where I poured over countless liner notes, song lists and musician line ups on countless records there and other stores, too.
I went many times to that Peaches - it was the first full-scale record store I ever knew. I've heard the Blue Ridge Rangers album, but not in a long time. I remember it being pretty good but not essential.
Absolutely! Sure it was a large store, but they had a broad range of genres/artists. I got into Nordic jazz as well as whatever the heck James Blood Ulmer is/was because of that store, in addition to mainstream rock, folk, punk, bluegrass, and “Kind of Blue” era Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
I never noticed the glove before either, Steve! And this was one of my favorite albums of the 1980s, so I (also) handled the cover a great deal. Thanks for pointing it out. I did, however, notice the Chuck Berry reference, and every time it comes up in the song, I sing along loudly. (It's one of my favorite Chuck songs too.) Good review!!!!
Who ever designed that cover did a terrible job. I could go on and on about all the many bad decisions, but that’s design talk, not music talk.
Nice Steve. I was up in Ferguson and Dellwood the other day. I passed the site at the corner of Chambers and West Florissant that Peaches Records used to occupy. I was up there with my older sister there the year that Fogarty released his first solo album - 1973 I think. I was really getting into bluegrass then and asked about it. Somebody said that it was John Fogarty (it didn’t have his name on it then). I’ve heard Hank Williams ‘Jambalaya’ but I don’t think I’ve heard any others. I just looked it up: he’d recorded all the instruments on that album, too. Have you gotten a chance to listen to the album? Is it worth looking into? Anyway, I miss my weekly visits to Peaches, where I poured over countless liner notes, song lists and musician line ups on countless records there and other stores, too.
I went many times to that Peaches - it was the first full-scale record store I ever knew. I've heard the Blue Ridge Rangers album, but not in a long time. I remember it being pretty good but not essential.
Absolutely! Sure it was a large store, but they had a broad range of genres/artists. I got into Nordic jazz as well as whatever the heck James Blood Ulmer is/was because of that store, in addition to mainstream rock, folk, punk, bluegrass, and “Kind of Blue” era Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
I never noticed the glove before either, Steve! And this was one of my favorite albums of the 1980s, so I (also) handled the cover a great deal. Thanks for pointing it out. I did, however, notice the Chuck Berry reference, and every time it comes up in the song, I sing along loudly. (It's one of my favorite Chuck songs too.) Good review!!!!