Music Review: Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Critics have often tried to pigeonhole the album Aqualung into one of several categories: concept album, progressive rock, folk rock, hard rock, et cetera, ad nauseam. In fact, the repeated critical...
View ArticleMusic Review: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972) is an important document in interpreting early bluegrass and country music, an invaluable piece of Americana that far outshines anything else the Nitty Gritty Dirt...
View ArticleMusic Review: Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia — Friday Night in San...
Live albums are such fragile things, aren’t they? I mean, under the performer’s swagger, the stacks of Marshalls, and even the sometimes egregious overdubbing to mask imperfections and gaffes, very...
View ArticleMusic Review: The Pogues — If I Should Fall From Grace With God
If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988) is what sometimes happens when you mix whiskey, heroin, punk rock, and traditional Irish music. Such a fortuitous confluence of musical synchronicity rarely...
View ArticleMusic Review: The Moody Blues — Days of Future Passed
One of the major concerns I have with popular music in the past few decades, and with rock music in particular (I have many concerns, but I’ll concentrate on just one here), is that no one really...
View ArticleMusic Review: Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
What band exudes the eerie aura of All Hallows’ Eve more than Alice Cooper does? There was a mystique—jejune and over-the-top as it now may seem—surrounding the band that once thrilled young rock fans...
View ArticleMusic Review: Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
Ever and anon, out of trauma and tragedy arises, phoenix-like, a thing of wonder from the ashes. In May of 1969, Fairport Convention’s band van swerved off the road and down a steep embankment on the...
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Music Review: Peter Gabriel – Melt (1980)
I am certain that if there were a musical lexicon, next to the definition of the word eccentric would be a photo inset of Peter Gabriel, most likely adorned in the outlandish silver and blue face-paint...
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Music Review: The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
The Waterboys are a perfect example of the borrowed adage “you can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the...
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Music Review: Muddy “Mississippi” Waters Live (Legacy Edition)
It is rare that musical performers release a superlative live recording, one that meets or exceeds the original studio versions of their songs. Oh sure, record labels will spew out live albums with the...
View ArticleMusic Review: Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Critics have often tried to pigeonhole the album Aqualung into one of several categories: concept album, progressive rock, folk rock, hard rock, et cetera, ad nauseam. In fact, the repeated critical...
View ArticleMusic Review: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972) is an important document in interpreting early bluegrass and country music, an invaluable piece of Americana that far outshines anything else the Nitty Gritty Dirt...
View ArticleMusic Review: Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia — Friday Night in San...
Live albums are such fragile things, aren’t they? I mean, under the performer’s swagger, the stacks of Marshalls, and even the sometimes egregious overdubbing to mask imperfections and gaffes, very...
View ArticleMusic Review: The Pogues — If I Should Fall From Grace With God
If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988) is what sometimes happens when you mix whiskey, heroin, punk rock, and traditional Irish music. Such a fortuitous confluence of musical synchronicity rarely...
View ArticleMusic Review: The Moody Blues — Days of Future Passed
One of the major concerns I have with popular music in the past few decades, and with rock music in particular (I have many concerns, but I’ll concentrate on just one here), is that no one really...
View ArticleMusic Review: Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
What band exudes the eerie aura of All Hallows’ Eve more than Alice Cooper does? There was a mystique—jejune and over-the-top as it now may seem—surrounding the band that once thrilled young rock fans...
View ArticleMusic Review: Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
Ever and anon, out of trauma and tragedy arises, phoenix-like, a thing of wonder from the ashes. In May of 1969, Fairport Convention’s band van swerved off the road and down a steep embankment on the...
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Music Review: Peter Gabriel – Melt (1980)
I am certain that if there were a musical lexicon, next to the definition of the word eccentric would be a photo inset of Peter Gabriel, most likely adorned in the outlandish silver and blue face-paint...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
The Waterboys are a perfect example of the borrowed adage “you can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: Muddy “Mississippi” Waters Live (Legacy Edition)
It is rare that musical performers release a superlative live recording, one that meets or exceeds the original studio versions of their songs. Oh sure, record labels will spew out live albums with the...
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