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UPDATE (April 10, 2014): According to a letter we
received today from Gary Rhodes, currently a worship pastor in Waco, the
Rhodes family had very little idea who they were really doing business
with in the early '70s. "We (including our parents) w...
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Irlene Mandrell Texercise (1983) You already know the
greats of Texas' recorded history. Roy Orbison. Lightnin' Hopkins. ZZ
top. Jandek. But no Texas record collection is complete without this
regional remnant of the exercise album craze, Irlene M...
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Rev. C.L. Jackson You Can Go To Heaven From Houston,
Texas Preach on, Brother Jackson Cutout Bin got a record (yeah). In a
thrift store in Houston, Texas (yeah). I was feelin' low (yeah). Like
the world was out to get me (that's right). So I put o...
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Rev. Mr. Goodwill Fairley Pull Up a Chair and Listen
Meet Rev. Mr. Goodwill Fairly. With a name like that, you just know he
has something to say. And, by God, you're going to listen. Pull up a
chair. Don't worry, he'll get one for you. Wait a sec ...
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Tuesday afternoon, Cutout Bin received a breathless
phone call from a friend: "Are you watching Ellen??" Um, no... Some
people work for a living. Not me, but some people. So it turns out Jeff
Bridges is on Ellen, and wouldn't you know it, he has h...
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Maybe the Slap Chop infomercial ended and the remote
was lost between the seat cushions. Or perhaps you spent a weekend stuck
at your crazy grandmother's house, with no cable. In any case, you've
surely seen the Van Impes, the nation's most enduri...
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The world's biggest rock and roll star you've never
heard of is now in an L.A. hospital, recovering from botched surgery.
Johnny Hallyday is one of the most famous men in the French-speaking
world. He rose to stardom in the early 1960's doing Fran...
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One popular gripe regarding the demise of LP records
is the loss of detail on the album covers. There can be no better
example than this, the soundtrack for the all-but-forgotten 1956Burt
Lancaster circus flick, Trapeze. There's so much going on i...
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EMS Country Express You Respond to Everyone But Me:
Songs for the EMT (ETI Emergency Training, 1981) Nearly every occupation
has its token LP. There are records for doctors and nurses, lawyers and
ministers, cabbies and card sharks. But as far as ...
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Dr. Murray Banks What YOU can learn from the Kinsey
Report (Audio Masterworks, 1956) In the late 1940s and '50s, the lives
of staid conservative Americans were rocked by the release of Dr. Alfred
Kinsey's reports on human sexuality. Thanks to the ...
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Linda Petty and the Main Event Linda (no label) When
Cutout Bin first saw Linda Petty's album, it shone like a diamond from
the tattered pile of thrift-store vinyl in front of us. Piercing eyes
that knifed into our bosom, a torso enveloped in crim...
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Don Lonie Talks With Teenagers (1962) Talks Again
(1964) Don Lonie's pair of albums from the early 60's were among the
bestselling titles for Christian recording powerhouse Word Records. They
sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and are thrift-st...
