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It's a beautiful, lazy Sunday in Dallas, Texas, and this is the perfect album to go with it! So easy to listen to, to read by, to just s...

Gotta love that exotica! After Martin Denny's success with the album "Exotica", it was inevitable that there would be another ...

Time to take a trip to Hawaii - musically, that is! Well, here's a great album by Arthur Lyman, one of the masters of exotica. The music...

How many of you are experiencing freezing temperatures right now? We had some very cold days in Dallas just a couple of days ago, but today ...

Well, the last post was some music from Mexico, so today I decided to go all the way down to South America and take you on a "Holiday i...

Been abroad lately? Well, here's your chance to fly now and be enchanted forever. You'll be traveling first class all the way, on a ...

Yesterday, my friend, Bradley, and I went to Half-Price Books and had a very productive afternoon! I came away with two of the Retro series ...

I have a goody for you today! This is yet another gem from the HPB bargain bin, and yet another album that I bought for the cover art. But...

Here's a fabulous album filled with inventive portraits of the many moods of love, from a chance flirtation to moments of ecstasy. The m...

Well, yesterday, my friend, Bradley, and I made a much needed trip to Half-Price Books to look for vinyl treasures. I came away with thirtee...