Wizzard – Buffalo Station-Get On Down to Memphis
Oldies Songs A Frenzied Southern Dream: When Roy Wood Drove British Glam to the Edge of Madness In 1973, Roy Wood — the wild-haired polymath who had already founded both The Move…
Ted Nugent – Name Your Poison
A Reckless Pulse of Defiance — The Unrelenting Spirit of “Name Your Poison” Released in 1978 as part of Ted Nugent’s fourth studio album Weekend Warriors, the fiery anthem “Name…
Steely Dan – Don’t Let Me In
The Ghost of a Door Never Opened — Steely Dan’s “Don’t Let Me In” and the Sound of Genius in Formation Buried deep in the archives of early Steely Dan…
Slade – You’ll Never Walk Alone
A Roar of Defiance and Devotion Echoing Through the Storm When Slade unleashed their live album Slade on Stage in 1982, it was more than a document of a band…
Jackson Browne – Baby How Long
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,…