Michael Fremer

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Black and Blue Catalog Winner Will Amaze You!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2007  |  0 comments

If you buy only one LP this year on faith because of what you read on this website, please make it this one that comes from so far out in left field, it’s in the bleachers.

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News
Black Friday Was Green Friday As 1.253 Million Records Sold the W/0 11/27-12/3
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 10, 2020  |  First Published: Dec 10, 2020  |  38 comments
Nielsen/MRC reported that this year between Friday, November 27th and Thursday, December 3rd, vinyl record sales jumped 56% compared to the same period last year. 1.253 million records sold in that week, which was the largest sales volume of any week in almost thirty years.

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Album Reviews
Black Reissue Retains Its Musical and Sonic Beauty On This Pure Pleasure Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2006  |  0 comments

The Irish folk/pop singer Mary Black, a genuine superstar at home, has built a worldwide following on the strength of her mesmerizing, crystal clear voice and an uncanny ability to wring every drop of meaning from the lyrics she interprets.

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Album Reviews
Blakey With Marsalis Brothers Highlights This Live Set From 1982
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2006  |  0 comments

The great drummer Art Blakey, still playing ferociously at age 62 when this Keystone Korner live set was recorded January, 1982, was a great believer in giving young talent gigging opportunities. He also was an excellent judge of the up-and-coming, and over the years he helped develop many major jazz artists, including Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and Hank Mobley, as well as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, both of whom are spotlighted on this record. In fact, it was Branford’s recording debut.

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Can I Have My Money Back?
Blame It On the Lampcord Department
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 12, 2015  |  First Published: Aug 12, 2015  |  56 comments
I just received this email that I thought I'd share with you:

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Album Reviews
Blind Pig Re-enters Vinyl Market With Eyes Open
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2008  |  0 comments

Recorded live on June, 28th at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival, this hot session features Wells and Guy backed by a last minute “pick-up” band consisting of ex-Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman, Otis Spann’s Muddy Waters band replacement Pinetop Perkins, ex-Manassas drummer Dallas Taylor, best known for peeking (or peaking) out the door on the back cover of Crosby Stills, Nash (on which he also played) and his brother Terry Taylor on rhythm guitar.

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Cable ReviewsFeatures
Block Audio's C-Lock Solves Wall Jack Woes
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 22, 2020  |  First Published: Jul 22, 2020  |  125 comments
Leaving aside for the moment the numbskulls who are so certain that A.C. power cords cannot possibly affect the sound of their audio systems that they can’t be bothered to actually listen for themselves—never mind that science is predicated upon observation— (plus of course they don’t believe anything they see, hear, taste, smell or touch unless it’s done under controlled “double-blind” conditions), there’s a big problem with heavy power cords: because of their heft, they often partially or sometimes fully pull out of the wall jack.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Blood, Sweat & Tears "Bloodlines" Box Set From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 22, 2017  |  0 comments
BS&T fans fall into 4 camps: the 1st which prefers the Al Kooper led original group and the album Child is Father to the Man, the 2nd that prefers only the second eponymously titled album, which was the group's most popular, the 3rd camp that loves the first two albums and the 4th camp that loves all of the group's albums. This box is definitely for them.

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Album Reviews
Blue Cheer's Debut Reissued in Heavier Metal Mono
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2010  |  1 comments

The Bay area based Blue Cheer issued this raw blues-psych record that runs a little more than a half an hour on the Philips label back in January of 1968.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Blue Note "Tone Poet" Series Launches With Wayne Shorter's "Etcetera"
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 21, 2019  |  6 comments
Blue Note's new "Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series" is part of the company's 80th anniversary celebration. Wayne Shorter's Etcetera is the first release in the series. Joe Harley, well known among audiophiles for his work with AudioQuest both as a press liaison (among other tasks) and especially for the series of all-analog AudioQuest LPs he produced back when vinyl was "dead", "hand picked" these "Tone Poet" titles and oversaw their production.

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