rawk Archive
02 Jan 2014
Re-Revisiting Creedence, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: Continuing on that point, if I may. As much as I like the Golliwogs and Blue Velvets material, musically it – especially the earliest […]
01 Jan 2014
Re-Revisiting Creedence, Part One
The catalog of Creedence Clearwater Revival has been issued, reissued, repackaged, re-re-packaged, and re-re-issued more times than I can count. Just a few years ago – 2008 – all of […]
20 Dec 2013
News on a Long Awaited Reissue
Readers who check out my writing more than occasionally will know of my keen interest in the music and the history of Paul Revere and the Raiders. One of my […]
18 Dec 2013
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s “Point Me at the Sky”
Released 45 years ago yesterday (and recorded in a single day a mere six weeks earlier), Pink Floyd‘s “Point Me at the Sky” is characterized (by Wikipedia) as “the least […]
17 Dec 2013
Album Review: Blodwyn Pig — Pigthology
On their two well-regarded late 1960s albums, Blodwyn Pig forged a singular musical path, one which some might say paved the way for such acts as Roy Wood’s Wizzard. This […]
11 Dec 2013
Digital December
Longtime readers will know that I review digital releases only in the rarest of cases. Only slightly more often will I cover physical releases for which I have access only […]
06 Dec 2013
Clearing the Backlog: Ten Micro-reviews
As the end of 2013 closes in, I look at my inbox and see a massive stack of CDs. Best as I try, I don’t always follow a first-in/first-out policy […]
27 Nov 2013
Album Review: Jellyfish — Radio Jellyfish
It’s pointless (not to mention plain wrong) to argue against the assertion that the “unplugged” concept had played itself out by the middle of the 1990s. But the format – […]
26 Nov 2013
Album Review: Various — Pete Townshend’s Jukebox
UK-based Chrome Dreams has released a number of these Jukebox titles over the last few years, including titles exploring the influences upon Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and even […]
12 Nov 2013
What’s Old is New Again in November 2013, Part One
I’ve been finding a lot of CDs in my inbox of late: discs that contain neither new music nor reissues; instead they’re new releases of previously-unissued material. Many of these […]