Donald Fagen – Planet d’Rhonda
Oldies Songs A Coolly Executed Confession of Obsessive Love and Fanciful Escapism, Set to a Breathtakingly Jazzy, Mid-Life Groove. By 2012, the world had come to expect a specific kind of exquisite…
Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down
The Symphonic Rockers Ditch the Strings for the Studio and Deliver a Hard-Driving Anthem of Pure, Unadulterated Frustration. The year 1979 was a time of seismic transition in pop music,…
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Dark Star
A Soaring Ode to Inner Exile: A Dramatic, Mystical Journey Through Self-Doubt and the Quest for Solace in the Ethereal Unknown. The year 1977 represented a crucial, often misunderstood turning…
Ray Charles & James Taylor – Sweet Potato Pie
A Gentle, Cross-Generational Testament to Simple Comfort: The Unreleased Culinary Duet That Epitomized Soulful Harmony. The idea of Ray Charles and James Taylor sharing a microphone is, in itself, a…
The Idle Race – Morning Sunshine
The Psychedelic Dawn of Pop Genius: A Whimsical, Sunshine-Drenched Ode to Escapism and the Innocent Promise of a New Day. Before the symphonic grandeur of the Electric Light Orchestra would…
Walter Becker – Cringemaker
The Wry Confession of a Self-Saboteur: A Jazz-Slicked, Darkly Humorous Chronicle of Crippling Neurosis and Creative Paralysis. After thirteen years of near-total silence from the legendary songwriting partnership of Steely…
Ted Nugent – Venom Soup
The Hard Rocking Confession of a Man Poisoned by His Own Success and the Dangers of a Life Lived Too Hard and Too Fast. By 1978, Ted Nugent was less…
MC5 – Ramblin’ Rose
The Sound of Anarchy Unleashed: A Primal, White-Hot Eulogy to the Rock and Roll Spirit That Burned Down the Gates of Polite Society. In the history of rock and roll,…
Steely Dan – Gaslighting Abbie
The Sophisticated, Late-Era Steely Dan Thriller: An Icy Jazz-Funk Study of Manipulation and Marital Deceit in the Digital Age. The year is 2000. After two decades of silence, save for…
Ted Nugent – One Woman
An Unexpected Balladic Confession: The Motor City Madman’s Furious Pursuit of Love and the Desperate Need for Stability Amidst the Chaos of the Road. In the late 1970s, the myth…