Donald Fagen – On the Dunes
Oldies Songs An Eight-Minute Odyssey of Existential Despair, Where the Search for a Future Only Leads to a Heartbreaking Confrontation with a Failed Past. For those of us who grew up decoding…
Jackson Browne – Yeah Yeah
This Epic, Late-Career Ballad is a Bracingly Honest Testament to the Hard-Won Endurance of a Long-Term Love, Acknowledging Both the Sacrifice and the Deep, Unshakeable Reward. By the year 2014,…
Wizzard – Marathon Man
A Gloriously Nostalgic Rock and Roll Chase That Captures the Feverish, Relentless Pursuit of a Fading Dream of Youth. For those of us who came of age during the tumultuous,…
Steely Dan – Here at the Western World
A Lush, Oblique Portrait of Desperate Exile, Old-World Vice, and the Search for a Fleeting Fix in a South American Nightclub. There are certain songs, the true deep cuts, that…
Wizzard – Gotta Crush (About You)
The Glorious, Glam-Rock Heartbreak of a Man Who Knows His Wild-Eyed Infatuation is a Total Disaster. If there is one name that epitomizes the dramatic, chaotic, and utterly brilliant excess…
Jackson Browne – The Naked Ride Home
The Poignant Confession of a Fading Romantic Dream, Where a Reckless Moment of Intimacy Reveals the Irrevocable Solitude of Two Separate Souls. For over three decades, the name Jackson Browne…
Steely Dan – Rose Darling
A Sweetly Deceptive Ballad About Escapism, Forbidden Desire, and the Inner Life of a Discontented Man. The year 1975 found Steely Dan—or rather, its two creative architects, Walter Becker and…
Ted Nugent – Together
A Soaring Anthem of Hard Rock Devotion and the Power of Shared Passion, Forged in the Fiery Crucible of a Band’s Internal Turmoil. To those of us who came of…
Wizzard – Rock ‘N’ Roll Winter (Loony’s Tune)
The Melancholy Confession of a Rock Star Seeking Sanctuary from the Relentless, Garish Spotlight of Glam. For those of us who lived and breathed the wild, sequined spectacle of 1970s…
Steely Dan – Pearl Of The Quarter
The Story of an Outsider’s Unrequited, Sentimental Love for a Working Girl in the Languid, Decadent Heat of the French Quarter. The year was 1973. Rock music was still reeling…