Author Archive
01 Apr 2010
Now Playing
I just finished writing a major (print) feature on Paul Revere & the Raiders, and among their (many) hits and near-hits, this is a song I can’t get out of […]
01 Apr 2010
Sneak Preview (No Fooling)
Wow. There’s a lot of really great stuff coming down the pike. I have a number of major projects in progress at the moment. Powerpop, progressive rock, classic AM radio […]
31 Mar 2010
Interview: Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
For veteran cosmic rockers the Moody Blues, building the set list is A Question of Balance. Forty-three years after the release of the symphonic rock classic Days of Future Passed, […]
30 Mar 2010
Interview: King Khan and the Shrines
Note: the inimitable King Khan brings his crazed live act back to my town — Asheville NC — tonight. So I thought it would be a good time to re-run […]
30 Mar 2010
Album Review: Poco – Live at Columbia Studios, Hollywood 9/30/71
There are two truisms — well, maybe there are more, but I’m only interested in two at the moment — when it comes to country-rock. The first is: The Eagles […]
29 Mar 2010
Album Review: Ray Charles – Genius + Soul = Jazz
Musical dilettantes sometimes dabble in a wide variety of forms for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes they do it simply because they can: maybe their status or financial wherewithal means […]
26 Mar 2010
Concert Review: Moody Blues – April 21, 2010
Maybe you’ve been lucky. Maybe you’ve had the pleasure of attending a concert where the performer was truly, really, wholly into it. I was lucky the other night. I saw […]
25 Mar 2010
Album Review: Various Artists – Next Stop…Soweto Vol. 2
South Africa in the 60s, 70s and 80s was becoming increasingly isolated. Culturally and politically, the minority-rule apartheid country faced increasing ostracizing. Many countries — in an all-too-rare-example of unified […]
24 Mar 2010
Album Review: Hoodoo Gurus – Purity of Essence
If you’re a fan of the Hoodoo Gurus‘ best work, you tend to expect a fairly high standard in terms of quality songwriting, arrangement and that elusive takes-your-breath-away factor. And […]
23 Mar 2010
DVD Review: Frank Zappa – The Freak Out List
Great artists are always more than the sum of their influences. But understanding the amalgam of influences that inform the sensibility of an artist can be a useful window into […]