10 Years Later: Revisiting Son Volt’s Revamped & Hearty ‘Honky Tonk’
Without a shred of contrivance in this hearty reclamation of roots, Son Volt achieved and maintained an ever-so-precarious balance of euphoric music offset with deceptively despairing lyrics.
10 Years Later: Boz Scaggs Revisits His Soulful Roots On Fervent ‘Memphis’
The ten-year anniversary of Boz Scaggs’ Memphis is yet another notable milestone in the creative path that further reaffirms the selective approach the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter has usually brought to his work.
I Was There When: Miles Davis Impressed Burlington’s Flynn Theater On 12/13/86
Miles Davis stunned the Flynn Theater on 12/13/86 with a soaring event that will go down as one of the venue’s most memorable shows.
25 Years Later: Revisiting Gov’t Mules’ Towering Second Album ‘Dose’
On Dose, Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, and Matt Abts reinforced their intent to resuscitate the power trio concept in the wake of the prog-rock, punk, new wave, and grunge eras subsequent to the formative early work by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The Church Keeps It Dramatic & Lush On ‘The Hypnogogue’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The enduring Australian band’s twenty-sixth album, The Hypnagogue, might well be termed a return to form, except that, even as it incorporates new recruits, the band picks right up where it left off with 2017’s Man Woman Life Death Infinity.
40 Years Later: Revisiting The Ramones’ Return To Form Classic ‘Subterranean Jungle’
The Ramones’ Subterranean Jungle (released 2/23/83) begs the question of whether this is the album that signals the punk icons’ awareness of the passage of time and, more specifically, the fact they are aging. It’s certainly dangerous to (over) intellectualize the work of the seminal punk band. The fact of the matter is, though, that the quartet […]
30 Years Later: Revisiting Big Head Todd & The Monsters’ Steady & Soulful ‘Sister Sweetly’
It’s certainly fair to say Big Head Todd & The Monsters’ third album, Sister Sweetly (released 2/23/93) was a sizable achievement for the Colorado-based band.
55 Years Later: Revisiting Blood Sweat & Tears’ Rock Meets Jazz Debut ‘Child Is Father To The Man’
The Blood Sweat and Tears that created Child Is Father to the Man (released 2/21/68) is not the same band the public so wholeheartedly embraced via “And When I Die,” “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” and “Spinning Wheel.”
50 Years Later – Revisiting Rory Gallagher’s Expansive & Dynamic ‘Blueprint’ Album
Upon a quick first reading, Blueprint (released 2/18/73) might not seem a fitting title for Rory Gallagher’s third solo album.
Marshall Crenshaw’s Self Titled Debut Gets 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (ALBUM REVIEW)
It’s a testament to Marshall Crenshaw’s persistence, not to mention his professional pride, that he’s secured the rights to his catalog as originally released on Warner Brothers Records. Issued on double-LP vinyl for RSD reissue in the fall of 2022–in which format it sold out–a 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition of his self-titled debut on compact disc reaffirms the value […]