review Archive
20 May 2009
Album Review: The Pretty Things — S.F. Sorrow
The 1968 album S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things is an exemplar of a band, pushed to the wall, rising to the occasion and producing a classic. Prior to this, […]
19 May 2009
Album Review: Porcupine Tree — Lightbulb Sun
The 2008 reissue of Lightbulb Sun makes one of the rarest parts of the Porcupine Tree catalog readily available again. The group’s seventh album of studio material, Lightbulb Sun was […]
18 May 2009
Album Review: R. Stevie Moore — Meet The
R Stevie Moore is one odd dude. I can’t say whether he’s the sort that listeners would wish to “have a beer with”, but his music is worthwhile for the […]
17 May 2009
Album Review: Moby Grape – The Place and the Time
Moby Grape was (and remains) one of those unlucky star-crossed acts that never, ever seemed able to catch a break. From the beginning, things seemed to go wrong for them. […]
16 May 2009
Album Review: Nick Lowe – Jesus of Cool: 30th Anniversary Edition
Nick Lowe had a growing (if still somewhat underground) reputation in 1979. As a producer — mostly for Stiff Records — he had worked the boards on stunning a number […]
15 May 2009
Album Review: BB King and His Orchestra — Live
The opening sonic salvo of B.B. King Orchestra and His Orchestra Live might be jarring for longtime B.B. King listeners. A Vegasy revue number, “B.B.’s Theme” really has little to […]
14 May 2009
Album Review: Jackdawg — s/t
Jackdawg is a heretofore unreleased one-off project from 1990. The group features Stu Cook from Creedence Clearwater Revival, plus John McFee and Keith Knudsen from the Doobie Brothers. The fifteen […]
13 May 2009
Album Review: John Lee Hooker — Anthology: 50 Years
John Lee Hooker was never the smoothest of bluesmen. While he had no qualms about going electric (in fact nearly all of his celebrated work features electric guitar) he made […]
12 May 2009
Album Review: Robyn Hitchcock — I Wanna Go Backwards
Quirky Cambridge England singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has always followed his own twisted muse. Like some bastard son of Bob Dylan and Syd Barrett, Hitchcock has made a career of memorable […]
11 May 2009
Album Review: Isaac Hayes — Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak)
It’s with some trepidation that this reviewer plays an album called Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak). Had said album been credited to anyone other than the estimable Isaac Hayes, the disc […]