Tag Archives: Dennis Coffey

Records at Random, Vol. 74: Bill Cosby Hooray for the Salvation Army Band

Earlier this week I was watching late-nite re-runs of The Cosby Show when I had a revelation. Dr. Heathcliff “Cliff” Huxtable, the show’s main character, despite all of his positive aspects, was a habitual liar. He was a successful doctor, had an amazing wife, exceedingly lovely daughters, an industrious son, and an awesome […]

Records Reissues at Random, Vol. 71: Sixto Rodriguez Cold Fact

Early in the week I praised Tabacco and his group Black Moth Super Rainbow for the druggy, psychedelic quality of their music. This might seem odd coming from a person like myself who’s proud of the fact that they abstain from ingesting things like actual tobacco, in both it’s traditional and “wacky” varieties, and […]

No Relation to Big Mountain Fudgecake

A few hours ago I got together with Emeyesi to record a new episode of our weekly podcast series. A good deal of our between-song banter dealt with the Republican National Convention (which we’d been watching) and the GOP’s platform (which apparently consists of being old, being white, being rich, lying, wearing cowboy […]

Records at Random Vol. 58 - Santana III

I’m almost positive that I purchased the self-titled 1971 LP commonly referred to as III (to distinguish it from their self-titled debut) from San Francisco-based Latin-Rock stalwarts Santana by accident. The way I remember it, I saw the name and title-free cover — with its transparent spaceman grabbing at quasars while a Pegasus-riding barbarian […]

Records at Random Vol. 47 - Ohio Players Ecstasy

If the cover of last week’s Records at Random entry from MFSB was subtly sexy then the record lurking behind it in a pile near the television in my living room which earns the spot this week is damn near pornographic. Coming from a group — the untouchable Dayton, Ohio-bred Funk outfit the Ohio Players […]