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B2 or not b2 …
The Shed’s hi-fi correspondent recently posted something along the following lines on the Amazon Brennan users’ site, which is occasionally active but doesn’t have much so far on the Brennan B2. The old Brennan JB7, a jukebox for Cds, sold … Continue reading
more NOTES FROM THE SHED
STINKING OR ROLLING IN IT? Are you stinking rich or merely rolling in it? That question was the headline on a riff by Telegraph writer Oliver Pritchett, on the language of the well off, which was enjoyed in The Shed. … Continue reading
NOTES FROM THE SHED: ON THE BIG BOSS MAN
Today, The Shed has once again squandered hours trying to drag its record collection into the age of I-wotsits but has paused to do a bit of research on one of its great treasures, a vinyl copy of Frankie … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 159: Dixie Bop to download
The Shed’s advice on building a rockabilly collection is, basically, start with Carl Perkins and stay with Carl Perkins until you’ve run out, then decide if you want more. But the Shed’s vinyl resource includes a slightly wider taster, dating … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 142: Some YouTube recommendations
The Shed enjoyed a thriller set in the Australian outback, Diamond Dove, by Adrian Hyland, starring a heroine called Emily Tempest who endeared herself by namechecking Ry Cooder, Robert Earl Keen and the Aussie folkie Slim Dusty, composer of Pub … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 134: Elvis exclusive
The Shed does keep meaning to go more multimedia and is getting in a little practice by uploading the original pressing of One Night Of Sin, the anguished blues which the Elvis machine later turned into One Night With You. … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 126: The best of Last and other playlist tips
The following recommendations are filed here in the course of a weed-out of cuttings … ** Some James Last, believe it or not, on the grounds of the obituary piece abridged below from the original by Alexis Petridis at http://tinyurl.com/pd29k5k/ … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 88: Some more Radio Shed
* The Shed’s eye was caught by a report in Gdn 27.3.15, by Luke Bainbridge, which included the claim: “Frankie Knuckles is to house music what Chuck Berry is to rock’n’roll.” Knuckles was a Chicago musician, DJ and record producer, … Continue reading
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