reissue 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 […]
16 Sep 2013
Album Review: The Monochrome Set — Volume, Contrast, Brilliance
Note: be sure to read all the way through; there’s a new Monochrome Set DVD reviewed as well. The Monochrome Set were one of those bands who never broke stateside. […]
28 Aug 2013
August Jazz Roundup #2
The esteemed Concord Music Group continues its series of thoughtful reissues of jazz classics from its catalog holdings with five titles originally issued on the Riverside label. I covered Chet […]
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. […]
15 Aug 2013
Let George Thorogood Tell You Something, My Friend (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Those early years were tough ones, Thorogood said. “For Jeff [Simon, drums] and I, from 1975 until the time we put out the second record, those […]
14 Aug 2013
Let George Thorogood Tell You Something, My Friend (Part One)
At the appointed time, our mutual contact connected me on the phone with George Thorogood. After a second or two of line noise during which all parties adjusted to the […]
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 […]
30 Jul 2013
Album Review: Faye Richmonde — For Men Only
Though neither of my dear, sweet parents could ever carry a tune in the proverbial bucket, there was plenty of music in the Kopp household as I was growing up. […]
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) […]