review Archive
01 May 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — Drink a Toast to Innocence
As far back as the 1980s, the great philosopher Huey Lewis proclaimed that it’s “hip to be square.” Good thing, that, because like many of my rock’n’roll fan contemporaries, I […]
30 Apr 2013
Show Review: 50 Shades! The Musical — April 27 2013, Knoxville TN
I didn’t know quite what to expect going into 50 Shades! The Musical. Was this stage show going to be a mere cash-in, a coattail-ride upon the popularity of the […]
29 Apr 2013
Concert Review: Black Angels, Allah-Las and Elephant Stone — Asheville NC April 5 2013
I started attending arena-scale rock concerts back in the late 1970s. My first show was in October 1978, seeing Electric Light Orchestra with their hamburger bun/spaceship setup at Atlanta’s Omni. […]
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 […]
18 Apr 2013
Concert Review: Charles Bradley and the Extraordinaires — Asheville NC, April 18 2013
There exists a certain, special sort of concert. And in my experience, it’s extremely rare: the sort of show in which I find myself realizing a mere three, two or […]
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 […]
15 Apr 2013
Concert Review: Moon Hooch, The Orange Peel, Asheville NC April 12 2013
I read a description of these guys that likened their music to house (EDM). And though I can’t find the citation, I’m pretty sure somebody else labeled Moon Hooch as […]
12 Apr 2013
Album Review: The Edgar Broughton Band — Live in Hamburg: The Fabrik Concert 1973
Greetings, gentle reader. If you’ve found your way here, I offer you my most heartfelt welcome. The odds were against you stumbling across this particular review by happenstance. What’s on […]
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 […]