reissue Archive
06 May 2013
Album Review: Ant-Bee — Pure Electric Honey
Though it far too often is the case, avant garde music need not be chilly and foreboding. Sometimes it can be warm and inviting, while still maintaining its outré, weird-and-wonderful […]
03 May 2013
Album Review: Captain Beyond — Live in Texas: October 6, 1973
Way back in my high school days, I developed an abiding interest that developed into a lifelong hobby. Though these days its intensity level is much lower than, say, […]
26 Apr 2013
Album Review: Nektar – Remember the Future
Album reissues can be funny things. Not haha-funny, but perplexing-funny. Take, for example, the case of Nektar’s breakthrough 1973 LP Remember the Future. Their most commercially successful album, it ranks […]
25 Apr 2013
Album Review: Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys — The Street Giveth…and the Street Taketh Away
When it comes to James Marshall Hendrix, there are any number of “fun facts,” little tidbits of trivia that may or may not add to one’s understanding of the man […]
17 Apr 2013
Album Review: Jeremy Steig — Wayfaring Stranger
In the very late 1970s – or perhaps it was the very early 80s; after so many years, I’m not entirely sure – I picked up a used copy of […]
10 Apr 2013
Album Review: Grateful Dead — Dick’s Pick’s Volume 24
Say what you will about The Grateful Dead – heaven knows I’ve been harshly critical of them, and stand by every one of my written remarks – even at their […]
01 Apr 2013
Album Review: Barbara & Ernie – Prelude To…
I truly admire the people at Real Gone Music. They continue to unearth music from ages ago that is in some cases long-cherished. In other cases it’s long-forgotten but worthwhile. […]
28 Mar 2013
Album Review: Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign
Here’s one often reliable method for discerning whether an album is an important one: when you first hear it, do you recognize several of the songs via popular cover versions? […]
07 Mar 2013
Album Review: Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information / Wings of Love
There are many stories in pop music history centering around artists who – for one reason or another — never quite fulfilled their potential. More often than not, those reasons […]
05 Mar 2013
Album Review: Nektar – Journey to the Centre of the Eye
The history of 1970s rock is littered with also-rans. Even though the pop music landscape of that decade was arguably more varied than today’s (and by “pop” I mean music […]