review Archive
26 Mar 2013
Album Review: Freddie King – The Complete King Federal Singles
Freddie King was a big man with a big guitar sound. An important figure in the history of blues, he’s also one of the most accessible artists in the genre; […]
25 Mar 2013
Album Review: Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective
Seven CDs represents quite a lot of music. And all of the music on Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective was recorded in the space of six and half year years. […]
15 Mar 2013
Capsule Reviews: March 2013, Part 2
Here’s yet another in my occasional series of capsule reviews; once again I had a huge stack of CDs deserving of review, but time doesn’t allow for full-length reviews of […]
14 Mar 2013
Concert Review: Elsten Torres, Asheville NC 2 March 2013
It’s always a tough gig playing as the opening act. It’s even more so when the show is like the one I recently witnessed at Asheville’s Civic Center. First there’s […]
13 Mar 2013
Concert Review: Tame Impala, Asheville NC 22 Feb 2013
It’s the rare modern act that bridges audiences young and not-so-young. Australia’s Tame Impala is one such act. In the studio, the Australian Tame Impala is essentially one man: Kevin […]
11 Mar 2013
Album Review: Jutta Hipp – The German Recordings 1952-1955
Had the life and career of Jutta Hipp not happened, pop culture might have had to fabricate them. Hers is such a unique, compelling, mystifying and ultimately frustrating story that […]
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 […]
06 Mar 2013
Album Review: Merle Haggard – The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles
First it was Collectors’ Choice Music, and then when they shuttered their label, it was Real Gone Music. Now Omnivore – another boutique label run (in the best way) by […]
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 […]
04 Mar 2013
Book Review: Vinyl Lives II
James Goss‘ 2010 book Vinyl Lives was built around a series of interviews the author conducted with owners of independent record stores around the country. Woven together, these individual stories […]