Little Willie John’s very brief cameo appearance playing the claves on the TV show Route 66 in 1962 certainly belies the breadth of his career. The man had a lengthy
With fifty years’ hindsight, Jackson Browne’s Late For The Sky (released 9/13/74) stands as his definitive work. Most of the entries in his discography, from his earliest eponymous release (often called ‘Saturate Before Using’
Medeski Martin & Wood’s End of the World Party (Just in Case) is heady stuff, perhaps all the more so two decades after its original release. The album (released 9/7/04) is undoubtedly
Half a century of hindsight confirms that if ever there was a sequel that didn’t quite match up to the original, Herbie Hancock’s Thrust is it. As a followup to the stylistically
Delbert McClinton deserves to be best known for his own estimable body of work rather than the ephemeral fact he demonstrated some of the finer points of harmonica playing to
If this third installment of exhumations from Neil Young’s archive seems the most sprawling so far, it’s only because it accurately mirrors the arc of his variegated recorded history through
Like his brother, Minnesotan, and kindred spirit Bob Dylan, Charlie Parr comes across as a fictional character who happens to play and sing nothing but the blues. For instance, in
Humble Pie’s breakthrough to wide acceptance via 1971’s Performance: Rockin’ the Fillmore was a stark contrast in style and sound to their two earliest studio efforts. The sophomore likes of Town & Country, from just
The high-quality Peter Corrigan action photos of the Grateful Dead on stage adorning the graphic design of Dave’s Picks Volume 51 may indeed be a rarity. Still, delineations of the iconic band’s
Little Walter Jacobs gained recognition from rediscovering the blues genre in the Sixties. And, like so many of his contemporaries, he deserved the accolades, even if the response was somewhat
