Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth
Oldies Songs The Icy Portrait of a Jaded Gambler and the Cynical Calculus of Luck and Vice in the Glamourous American Wasteland There are songs that merely entertain, and then there are…
Ted Nugent – You Make Me Feel Right At Home
A Rare Moment of Quiet Intimacy and Melodic Soul in the Hard Rock Barrage of the Motor City Madman There are certain tracks in a legendary rocker’s catalogue that stand…
Ted Nugent – Turn It Up
An Electrified Anthem to the Unadulterated Joy and Raw Power of Pure, Uncompromising Rock and Roll Ah, 1976. For those of us who lived through it, that year wasn’t just…
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
A Grotesque Dirge of The American Dream’s Deception, Where Hopeful Immigrants Fall Prey to the Dark Metropolis. For those of us who came of age amidst the slick cynicism and…
Slade – Heaven Knows
A Soaring, Melancholy Lament for Lost Innocence and the Corrupting Glare of Stardom. The year is 1974. Slade were, quite simply, the most electrifying phenomenon in British rock, a band…
Jackson Browne – Shaky Town
A Raw and Intimate Portrait of the Road-Weary Musician’s Life, Recording the Quiet Drama of Exhaustion and Transient Connection In the landscape of 1970s singer-songwriters, few captured the weary, contemplative…
Jackson Browne – Under the Falling Sky
An Uplifting Anthem of Passionate, Immediate Connection Against the Weight of a Weary World In the sprawling, golden-hued landscape of the early 1970s, as the confessional singer-songwriter genre reached its…
Donald Fagen – The New Breed
The Acerbic, Jazz-Infused Lament of a Digital-Age Love Triangle, Where the Old School Hipster is Replaced by the “Dot-Com-Slash” Geek The year 2012 felt like a seismic shift, a moment…
Ted Nugent – Workin’ Hard, Playin’ Hard
A Gritty Testament to the Hedonistic Balance of the 1970s Rock and Roll Life: The Unspoken Code of the Road Warrior The year is 1977. Bell bottoms were getting tighter,…
Ted Nugent – Great White Buffalo
A Thundering Ode to Indigenous Hope and the Spirit of the American Plains It’s 1974. The decade is halfway through, but the echoes of the tumultuous sixties are still vibrating,…