“I remember Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band blew me away.”
“I was 7 and my Dad’s friend gave me a Megadeath album for my birthday. I brought it home and my mother saw what I was holding…we got back in the car and went to The Great Escape (a record and comic store in Madison, Tennessee). She picked out Sgt. Pepper’s and that was it. Nothing against Megadeath at all…I do enjoy them.
Another record would be Troubadour by JJ Cale. I owned it in college and that was when I first owned a record player. I love JJ’s style…his writing, his guitar playing, his dingy basement dweller mad scientist/ laid back duuuuuude thing. I was and still am way into all of his records, however Troubadour is the top for me. The pedal steel solo in ‘Hey Baby’ is one of my favorite pedal steel solos.
Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead is a shining star for me. The B side of that record consists of one song—the expansive title track spanning nearly 16 minutes in length. It is one of the soundtracks playing along in my mind most days.
Once I was double crossed by the rainbow paper that a miniature woman placed on my tongue and listened to that song over and over and over and over and over again…watched the sun rise from my front yard while neighbor Mike and I layed there…Terrapin playing forever.
Big memories.”
—Rayland Baxter
Rayland Baxter’s Imaginary Man is in stores now via ATO Records. On vinyl.
