A progression readily apparent with fifty years of retrospect, The Who’s second album, A Quick One, (released 12/9/66) represents a quantum leap in style. Titled Happy Jack in the United
A retrospect of fifty-five years provides an especially fascinating perspective on Cream’s debut album. Fresh Cream (released 12/9/66 (barely scratches the surface of the powerhouse unit this seminal power trio
Is Buffalo Springfield the most underrated super-group in the history of contemporary rock? That’s a question worth asking now that we have more than a half-century of hindsight since the
Becoming immersed in the five-CD version of the Almost Famous 20th Anniversary Expanded Soundtrack is no doubt somewhat akin to attending a high-school reunion. Even as this quasi-autobiographical film of
Implausible as the theory may sound, in the realm of music there are icons and then there are ICONS. The former are those artists who, over the course of a
Achtung Baby (released 11/18/91) represents the flashpoint of popularity and ambition for U2. The mega-successful Irish band has become something of a caricature of itself in the three-decade interim since
With a half-century of hindsight, Faces’ Glyn John-produced third album ‘A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse’ (released 11/17/71, and second in ’71) accurately quantifies
A compendium of remarkable continuity that belies its stylistic span, Highway Butterfly is quite a haul. And that’s apart from the backstory of its title revolving around a mythic eighteen-wheeler.
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (released 11/1/71) is not the first album featuring this particular personnel lineup of Traffic. The same sextet, with erstwhile co-founder of the band Dave
Released forty years ago (11/2/81) with little fanfare and even less explanation, Re·ac·tor is the fourth studio collaboration between the Canadian rock icon and the band Crazy Horse. His last
