Travels in Aja: Steely Dan’s Magnum Opus
I was challenged to name the top 20 albums that have influenced me over the years. Steely Dan’s “Aja” is Number One on that list. Donald Fagen would probably hate that.
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Author: Clark Novak
Jennifer Warnes, 1968
Jennifer Warnes is revered as an interpretive singer par excellence. But did you know she’d been recording for a decade before she hit the Top 40 in 1977? Here’s the story of her forgotten first album from 1968.
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Sons of Mrs. Righteous
All things have a beginning, even obsessions. Car nuts can tell you about the first bit of rolling artwork they fell in love with; artists can opine about the first time they saw a watercolor or pastel that really moved them. In my case, the beginning of my obsession with music on vinyl was a 65-cent find in a thrift store in 1977.
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