Alan Hawkshaw – Next Stop L.A.
Alan Hawkshaw – Oh! Militia
Alan Parker – Melody & Lace
Alan Parker – Blue Shadow
Getting back into the regular swing of things (yet again, I know, I know). Meant to share this sooner to when I had picked it up from Cool Chris at the Groove Merchant X Rappcats pop-up in January, as one of my first digs of the new year. While I’ve dug on library sounds such as these since the 1990s, I’ve always been hesitant to pull the trigger on them until fairly recently. This was one of a handful of records I picked up from Chris, though this particular one was nowhere to be seen when I first made my way through the records. As luck would have it, someone decided to pass on this one, and that made it possible for me to not only give it a spin on the house speakers, but also to bring it home and share it with y’all. I’m particularly fond of library records like this, that present a pair of similarly styled artists, in this case both Alans, Hawkshaw and Parker. As you’d expect from a early 70s library record, the sounds are a bit funky, but also moody and mellow. A fine start to this year’s additions to my ever growing monument to vinyl addiction.