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November 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 468

Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962) I grew up listening to Ray Charles – the Blues Brothers movie and various compilations and things my folks had; some of our first CDs in the house were Ray Charles ones, a few of the last records in the house too…and then we went […]

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January 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 14: The Blues Brothers

I have had the double-pack DVD of The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000 on my shelf for quite a few years. I didn’t need Blues Brothers 2000 but it was cheaper to buy the double-pack than just the original movie… The Blues Brothers had a profound influence on me. It is possibly the movie […]

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May 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1118

The Blues Brothers, Dancin’ Wid Da Blues Brothers (1983) I’m not a completist/must-have/collect-the-set guy. Not anymore. I was very close to that at one point, but one of the attractions of collecting vinyl on any level – and I guess in some way I’m still certainly a collector – is finding things that never made […]

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February 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1415

The Blues Brothers, The Best Of The Blues Brothers (1981) When my dad won a CD player in a sales competition he scored a coupon allowing him to choose five CDs for free also. We loved free stuff! So he thought he was getting the soundtrack to the movie but this album arrived instead when […]