pat sansone Archive
05 Sep 2024
The Music of Big Star Gets What it Deserves (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… “It was Jody’s instinct,” says Sansone, “for the songs to be played by a band, in the spirit that the records were made.” Sansone describes his […]
04 Sep 2024
The Music of Big Star Gets What it Deserves (Part 1 of 2)
An edited version of this featured appeared in Spin. Rock music’s history is filled with success stories, both of the gradual and so-called “overnight success” varieties. But that history also […]
19 Jun 2023
Album Review: The Salt Collective – Life
In late 2019 I named The Loneliness of Clouds as one of my favorite releases of the year. At the time, the group (not exactly a group, but I’ll get […]
27 May 2016
Max Hatt / Edda Glass: Whisper, Don’t Shout
An unusual musical path led a Montana guitar-and-vocal duo to play bossa nova, open for Frank Zappa‘s son, win a songwriting contest and record their debut album in Asheville. But […]