real gone music Archive
30 Sep 2013
Fall Capsule Reviews, Part One
As regular readers know, periodically I engage in a desk-tidying activity whereby I cover a pile of albums – discs deserving of coverage, but ones I haven’t gotten to as […]
09 Sep 2013
Album Review: Jefferson Starship — Live in Central Park NYC May 12,1975
In the annals of rock history, Jefferson Starship are often dismissed. And truth be told, there’s an argument to be made there: the band (or one of its myriad lineups) […]
20 Aug 2013
Book Review: Boys Don’t Lie: A History of Shoes
Sidestepping tired allusions to Boston‘s Tom Scholz, Guns’n’Roses and Chinese democracy, Boys Don’t Lie: A History of Shoes was a long time coming. Author Mary Donnelly began work on the […]
16 Aug 2013
Album Review: The Hello People – Fusion
Consider this: a band with a truly left-field visual aesthetic, one that barely managed to chart, got to cut and release about a half dozen albums in the period 1968-1975. […]
13 Aug 2013
Album Review: Hackamore Brick – One Kiss Leads to Another
I don’t deliberately set out to be a contrarian, but it often works out that way. One good example: like most rock critics, I count myself among the fans of […]
06 Aug 2013
August Jazz Roundup #1
In my occasional series of capsule reviews, I arbitrarily limit myself to a specific word-count; as much as anything else, it’s to keep the editor in me amused. Anyway, today […]
24 Jul 2013
Album Review: Don Nix – Living By the Days
Don Nix is one of those names known mostly to inveterate liner note readers. His excellent 1973 LP Hobos, Heroes and Street Corner Clowns (on Enterpise, a Stax associated label) […]
18 Jul 2013
July Capsule Reviews, #3 of 3
Today I present yet four more capsule reviews. Today’s crop includes reissues on the Real Gone Music label. RGM is committed to unearthing long- (and unjustly-) forgotten music, and these […]
25 Jun 2013
Album Review: Mason Williams – The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
For a number of reasons, instrumental tunes rarely crack – let alone top – the pop music charts. And it has long been so. Though there have been exceptions both […]
28 May 2013
Album Review: Johnny Lytle — The Soulful Rebel / People & Love
Growing up, I heard a lot of music in my home. My parents were in those days big music fans, even though neither could carry a tune. They knew what […]