It has been a bit, hasn't it? I've throughly enjoyed my holiday season and I hope you have enjoyed yours. With the new year starting and now well underway, I thought it high time to get back up on the saddle and reboot 'The Locked Groove'; with a few changes. Instead of an album a week, I'll be spending two weeks with them. This gives me more time to soak up all of their goodness and also allows ample time for other things happening in my life (work, school, etc). I will still be doing posts throughout the week about other music that is striking my fancy or movies or books or games or whatever is distracting me from the album at hand. Take a look at the updated "rules" to the right if you are more interested in further changes.
I'm glad to be back. Glad you are back. Let's get started then. We are going to kick off 2014 with ELO (Electric Light Orchestra for the newbies), a band that I'm quite familiar with as far as their hits are concerned but I've never moved beyond "Best-Of" compilations to an album. Electric Light Orchestra's 1977 double album 'Out of the Blue' seems like a great place to start (even if it doesn't contain their absolutely perfect tune Telephone Line) so I shall begin there. So listen along if you like and I will see you soon with my thoughts on the record. In the meantime, keep listening.
Caleb.
