Tom let me go through thirteen boxes of 45s that he was getting ready to put out on the floor. About half were from his own collection. He told me he would bring stuff home and put it on the shelves but he had never taken the time to organize them. When he did he realized he had duplicates and triplicates of all sorts of stuff. Very little jazz in there but a very enjoyable few hours thumbing through.
I came home with six gems. Two Sun Ra 45s, “Plutonium Nights” and “The Sky Is A Sea of Darkness,” a Lightning Hopkins single from 1965, one of Jack White’s Chess reissues, Muddy Waters “Manish Boy,” Otis Redding double A, “Hard to Handle” and “Amen,” a clean copy of Wreckless Eric’s “Whole Wide World” Captain Beefheart’s “Abba Abba.”
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The sky is a sea 🌊 of darkness— would love to see that cover!