On The Record: ‘You Can Walk Across It on the Grass: The Boutique Sounds of...
After the Beatles conquered the world, the world turned its eyes to the Fab Four’s home country and particularly to London, which became, like San Francisco in the States, a hotbed for music, culture,...
View ArticleOn The Record: ‘The JFK Inauguration: US Top 100 20th January 1961,’ plus...
According to conventional wisdom, rock experienced a fallow period from around the time we lost Buddy Holly in January 1959 – “the day the music died,” according to Don McLean’s “American Pie” – until...
View ArticleOn The Record: the Who’s ‘Live at Shea Stadium,’ plus Rockabilly Anthologies...
“Strange as it seems now, with the survivors of the Who still playing live nearly 60 years after the band’s formation, their tour of 1982 was announced as their last, their grand farewell.” So begins...
View ArticleOn The Record: Tom Rush’s ‘Gardens Old, Flowers New,’ plus the Little Girls,...
Folk singer Tom Rush, who has been performing and recording for more than 60 years, has long been known primarily as an adept interpreter of other writers’ songs. His 1968 album The Circle Game...
View ArticleOn The Record: Dion’s ‘Girl Friends’ & the Rolling Stones ‘Live at the...
Dion DiMucci, one of rock’s most deservedly celebrated singers, regularly occupied high positions on the pop charts from 1957 to 1963, first with his group the Belmonts, and then on his own. He hasn’t...
View ArticleOn The Record: ‘New Guitars in Town’ (a Power-Pop Anthology), plus Christian...
As this column noted last year, “Power pop has always been a loosely defined genre – a big umbrella for upbeat, guitar-driven music that mostly harkened back to 1960s pop rock but that makes room for...
View ArticleOn The Record: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt Blake, Pete...
This column rarely covers EPs – the unending flood of full-length CDs is more than enough to keep a critic busy – but a six-song set called Wonder Women of Country: Willis, Carper, Leighis too good to...
View ArticleOn The Record: The Wandering Hearts, plus Domenic Cicala, the HawtThorns,...
Since they released their eponymous sophomore album in 2021, the British folk trio The Wandering Heartshave hooked up with a new producer, Steve Milbourne, and signed with a new label. In addition, the...
View ArticleOn The Record: Willie Nile, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ann Savoy, Stephen...
Willie Nile, Live at Daryl’s House Club. Rock singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Willie Nile has been releasing albums since 1980, but he has been particularly prolific over the last two...
View ArticleOn The Record: The Doors Live in Sweden in 1968, plus Gene Clark; Richard,...
Doors fans can’t go wrong by picking up Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm; September 20, 1968, a mesmerizing new two-CD or three-LP set. It documents the final night of a celebrated European tour, which...
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