Needles & Grooves

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone

Good calls and if we’re going Nina I’ve got to add my favourite, Pastel Blues, to the mix.

For Rock/Rock Adjacent 60s, I have:

The Beach Boys: Surfin’ Safari and Pet Sounds
The Beatles: Please Please Me, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s,The Beatles, Abbey Road
Cheap Thrills
Dylan: Highway 61
The Doors
Are You Experienced?
Joan Baez Vol. 1
The Ronettes
Astral Weeks
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Who ~ My Generation
Rolling Stones ~ Let It Bleed

Forever Changes by Love

Blues I have:

Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs
Muddy Waters: At Newport, Folk Singer, Fathers and Sons
Nina Simone ~ Wild is the Wind (is she blues? soul? I'm bad at genre)

I think Nina is mainly vocal jazz but she did do albums of soul and blues songs that blurred those boundaries. She basically is the classics and so should be the pick every month...

MC5 "Kick Out The Jams"
The Stooges "The Stooges"

That stooges album is pure fire, I wanna be your dog is sich an exceptional tune!

the psychedelic sounds of the 13th floor elevators

And the Kevin Gray remaster of Stooges is perfection.

Jazz I have:

Charles Mingus ~ The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Donald Byrd ~ Fancy Free
Herbie Hancock ~ Maiden Voyage
John Coltrane ~ Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Lee Morgan ~ The Sidewinder
Miles Davis ~ Sketches of Spain
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim ~ Getz/Gilberto

Country:

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs ~ Foggy Mountain Banjo
Ray Charles ~ Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (more soul, but whatevs)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers ~ Mama Tried
Townes Van Zandt ~ Townes Van Zandt
And a Patsy Cline Greatest Hits comp (which I'm not counting towards my total for complicated, whimsical reasons)

And finally some soul/soul adjacent:

Etta James ~ At Last
James Brown ~ Live at the Apollo
Otis Redding ~ Otis Blue
Isaac Hayes ~ Hot Buttered Soul
Aretha Franklin ~ I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (I'm counting this VMP chicken b/f it's hatched)
Diana Ross and the Supremes ~ The #1's (compilation album going from 60s - 70s) (which I am counting, for complicated, whimsical reasons)

You should get some Sam Cooke in there. There was a recent vinyl compilation that I’ve been eying myself for a few months!

Oh, and a Burt Bacharach album I bought for a dime.

I like Bacharach...

Thanks for that earlier heads up on Dusty in Memphis. The only Sam Cooke I've seen reissued is pretty expensive. Is there a source for relatively cheap Cooke?

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

Bacharach and David were outrageously good songwriters!

Nice @TCell . Real nice