In 1972 and ’73, Neil Young released an album and film titled Journey Through The Past, and now, over a half-century later, he is once again conducting a similar sojourn
The late Joe Cocker’s debut album, With A Little Help From My Friends (released 4/23/69), should be regarded as one of the finest debut albums in the history of contemporary rock. In
Irish blues-rockers Taste were contemporaries of the seminal power trio Cream and didn’t last all that much longer than the latter. Having been employed as one of the openers (along
The passing of Forrest Richard ‘Dickey’ Betts not only calls to mind the traditional eulogy-in-song “Another Man Done Gone” but also places us on the threshold of the end of
John Mayall has been dubbed ‘The Godfather of British Blues’ for good reason. His Bluesbreakers bands of the Sixties constituted something of a finishing school for guitarists, among whom numbered Eric Clapton,
The various curators of the New Riders of the Purple Sage vault have certainly done right by the band in recent years. Besides tendering packages including recordings of performances in
With Silent, Listening, Fred Hersch solidifies his position as one of the preeminent pianists in contemporary jazz. He does so through an admirable act of courage: he recorded this approximately fifty-minute
Ian Hunter’s accomplishment on 2023’s Defiance Pt. I was a rare one, indeed. He could meld the litany of guests into the semblance of a band rather than just a lengthy list of
With a quarter century hindsight, it’s time to declare Echo (released 4/13/99) the great unsung album of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Fifteen tracks running sixty-two some minutes might’ve seemed like a
The long-term history of Fleetwood Mac is all too often overlooked, partly because of the sad demise of British guitarist Peter Green in his later years. After a stint in John Mayall’s
