Hearing the most incandescent moments during the Allman Brothers Band’s Syria Mosque: Pittsburgh, PA January 17, 1971, the thought occurs this might well have been the very occasion that prompted the ABB to act upon the thought they’d been harboring to record live for their next album.
Portentous cover graphics notwithstanding, Lynyrd Skynyrd is not that much of a different band on Street Survivors (released 10/17/77) than the one on their debut album four (tumultuous) years prior. And it’s
From a perspective of three and a half decades now, it’s wholly fair to ask if Tunnel of Love (released 10/9/87) is the single most direct expression of emotion that Bruce Springsteen
It didn’t take twenty years of hindsight years to discern that Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker’s album The Last DJ (released 10/8/02) was about more than the corporate takeover of commercial radio.
Has there been a contemporary rock and roll band with a more potent combination of chemistry and courage than the original four-man lineup of R.E.M.? The quartet honed its sound
Little Feat’s live album Waiting For Columbus (Warner Bros., 1978) became very popular immediately upon its original release in 1978. Yet in its first configuration as a double-LP of vinyl, the title
Bob Dylan suffered a serious health scare some four months prior to the release of Time Out Of Mind (released 9/30/97), one so serious that, in its aftermath, he’d be prompted
The Doors’ Strange Days(released 9/25/67) did not have the cultural or commercial impact of the iconic band’s eponymous debut earlier than the h/alcyon year of 1967. And that’s all the more regrettable because,
Approaching the half-century anniversary of Steely Dan’s Aja (released 9/23/77) it’s confounding to try and figure out why it became the group’s most commercially successful album. After all, a fair-sized hit,
Four decades of hindsight reveal just how pivotal a release was Love Over Gold for Dire Straits (released 9/24/82), While it is not actually the first LP in which the ensemble ceased
