Vinyl Playlist

No theme. No specific genre. Hoping around. Going wherever I'm led. This playlist will be populated primarily (if not totally) by songs, pre-1990, which is when I gave up the good fight and made the soul draining leap and transition from vinyl records to compact discs. It was probably twenty years later before returning to my vinyl roots.

• Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street & Waiting For the Day (1978) ….. When I bought the album it was for the song, Baker Street which was a big radio hit back then and which I listened to exclusively. It wasn't until years later when I discovered how great the rest of the album is.
• China Crisis - You Did Cut Me (1985) ….. Heard this on the radio and learned of some connection to one or both central members of Steely Dan, which for the life of me I now can not recall.
• John Hiatt - Learning How to Love You (1987) ….. Discovering a great songwriter!! Destroying my previous erroneous preconception that John Hiatt was a punk rocker.  
• John Hiatt - Drive South & Slow Turning (1988) ….. What was this? A musician releasing records in back-to-back years? Until then it seemed like all my favorites had three or four years between releases. His performance of Slow Turning on Saturday Nite Live was a great moment!! I've always loved his line: "Now I'm in my car, I got the radio on, and I'm yelling at the kids in the back seat 'Cause they're bangin' like Charlie Watts."

John Hiatt on David Letterman's program playing Slow turning. And that guy in the background playing slide guitar would years later become a favorite ….. Sonny Landreth!!!

• Jackson Browne - Walking Slow (1974) ….. Freshman year and I'm "Walking Slow down the avenue" in front of my dorm (Sacket Hall) at Oregon State University and the guy on my floor across the hall and down a few doors from me, who I had seen around but hadn't formally met yet, had his speakers in his window playing Walking Slow with the volume turned way up. I raced upstairs, overcame my shyness, knocked on his door introduced myself and was invited in. A fellow JB fan!!
• Noel Pointer - Night Song (1977) ….. Jazz violinist. Initially heard late one night on a Portland's, KINK radio program called "Lights Out." Pretty sure that I had to travel to Portland to find the record. 
• Van Morrison - Wavelength & Kingdom Hall (1978) …… An Oregon evening. Radio in the garage. Raining outside. Soaking wet and shooting hoops in the driveway while Wavelength is playing. My first Van on vinyl purchase. Had some catching up to do.
• Leo Kottke - Vaseline Machine Gun (1969) ….. Saw him in concert in Corvallis. It sounded like there were two or three guitarists on stage. He was all alone!!!
• Phil Ochs - Outside Of a Small Circle of Friends (1967) ….. Awake late at night while mom, dad and siblings slept. Listening to a transistor radio. I didn't grasp at the time what the lyrics were saying.