Jackson Browne – Baby How Long
Oldies Songs A Soulful, Late-Career Question: An Artist’s Gentle, Unsentimental Inquiry into the Duration of Enduring Love. For those of us who have followed the long, reflective career of Jackson Browne, the…
Sweet – Santa Monica Sunshine
A Glimpse of the American Dream: A Sweetly Melancholy Hard-Rock Road Trip, Capturing the Band’s Deep Longing for California Freedom. The year 1971 was a pivotal moment for The Sweet.…
Steely Dan – Two Against Nature
A Late-Career, Jazz-Rock Examination of Two Lovers Who Find Dangerous Solace in Their Shared, Reckless Deviation from the Norm. The return of Steely Dan in the year 2000 was nothing…
Mountain – Taunta (Sammy’s Tune)
A Wordless Elegy: The Hauntingly Beautiful Instrumental that Revealed the Lyrical Soul of a Hard Rock Titan’s Quietest Genius. In the thunderous world of early 1970s hard rock, the band…
Slade – Kill ‘Em at the Hot Club Tonite
A Deep-Cut Glimpse of Rock-and-Roll Swagger: A Band’s Humorous, Self-Mythologizing Portrait of Their Own Unstoppable Live Prowess. To those who lived and breathed the electric energy of early 1970s rock,…
Jackson Browne – The Rebel Jesus
A Scathing, Poignant Examination of Materialism and Spiritual Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Christmas Season. There are Christmas songs that invite you into a warm embrace of holiday cheer,…
Slade – Roach Daddy
A Forgotten Garage Rock Gem: The Scrappy, Pre-Glam Rock Drama of a Band Searching for Their Sonic Identity on the Cusp of a New Decade. Before the platform shoes, the…
Wizzard – You Got Me Runnin’
A Reckless Rock-and-Roll Chase: The Story of a Man Outrun by His Own Desire, Captured in a Brilliantly Orchestrated Pop-Art Frenzy. In the mid-1970s, amidst the chaotic spectacle of Glam…
Ted Nugent – Cruisin’
A Piston-Pumping, Adrenaline-Charged Hymn to the Open Road: The Sound of the Motor City Madman Redefining Freedom. The year is 1978. The cultural landscape is shifting: Disco is peaking, Punk…
Walter Becker – God’s Eye View
A Cynical Yet Profound Meditation on Life’s Meaningless Grandeur, Viewed with Detached Wisdom from the Highest Plane. In the complex, beautifully flawed universe crafted by the late Walter Becker, there…