review Archive
18 Jan 2012
Album Review: Howlin’ Rain – The Russian Wilds
Remember the 1970s? It was a time when men strutted about the rock’n’roll stage as if they owned it. Mostly because they did. Hard-rocking vocalists forcefully staked their claim onstage, […]
17 Jan 2012
Album Review: Glen Campbell – Live in Japan
Very recently, a singer/songwriter musician friend of mine paid me a lovely complement. Having recently completed the recording of her band’s upcoming album, she had to note the genre-classification for […]
16 Jan 2012
In Honor of MLK Day…
In honor of the memory, legacy and goals of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, I’d like to take this MLK Day opportunity to shine a light on a pair […]
13 Jan 2012
Album Reviews: ? and the Mysterians – Action / 96 Tears
In 2010 Collectors’ Choice Music began an interesting and historically relevant series of reissues and repackages. Through a licensing agreement with a company called ABKCO, CCM gained access to the […]
12 Jan 2012
DVD Review: Rick Wakeman – Made in Cuba
Rick Wakeman has quite a reputation. Both as a man and a musician, he’s cut a rather indelible figure since his ascendancy on the music scene in the early 1970s. […]
11 Jan 2012
Album Review: Fred Wesley & the JB’s – The Lost Album Featuring “Watermelon Man”
File this one under Great Lost Albums of the 70s. As the story goes, the tracks that make up The Lost Album Featuring “Watermelon Man” were recorded by James Brown‘s […]
10 Jan 2012
Album Review: Regurgitator – Super Happy Fun Times Friends
I know people – I won’t name ’em – who, for one reason or another, prefer their music in random fashion. They’re not the sort to be swayed by the […]
09 Jan 2012
Album Review: An American Underdog – Always on the Run
To the degree that such inherently qualitative things can be quantified, a key determinant between good and great pop is what the songwriter/performer does beyond the verses and chorus. Yes, […]
06 Jan 2012
Album Review: Allen Clapp & His Orchestra – Mixed Greens
You know that old saying: “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.” Or something like that. By all available evidence, this axiom holds true in […]
05 Jan 2012
Album Review: Roy Brown – Good Rockin’ Man
In recent decades, proper credit has finally (and belatedly) been given to some of rock and R&B’s earliest and overlooked performers. For many years the narrative went that the fathers […]