Ted Nugent – Great White Buffalo
Oldies Songs 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,…
Walter Becker – Paging Audrey
“Paging Audrey” is a soulful, melancholic jazz-rock exploration of loss, regret, and the search for a vanished personal connection, serving as Walter Becker’s most nakedly emotional song. There are certain…
Jackson Browne – That Girl Could Sing
An Enduring Tribute to the Elusive Spirit of a Musician and Friend There are songs that simply exist, and then there are those that become woven into the fabric of…
Slade – Martha My Dear
A Deceptively Tender Serenade to Man’s Best Friend There are songs that wear their hearts on their sleeves, and then there are those that hold a secret, a private joke…
Slade – Keep on Rocking
A Raw, Unadulterated Anthem of Rock ‘n’ Roll Resilience and Raucous Joy. Oh, to be back in the early seventies, a time when rock music wasn’t a carefully polished product…
Steely Dan – Slang Of Ages
An Elegant and Wry Reflection on the Follies of Age and the Irresistible Pull of Youthful Transgression There are songs that simply exist, and then there are the compositions that,…
Jackson Browne – Sleep’s Dark and Silent Gate
An Intimate Exploration of Grief, Despair, and the Unyielding Search for Light After Profound Loss In the shadowed, confessional landscape of 1970s singer-songwriters, few albums struck such a devastating and…
Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, David Lindley – Carmelita
The Worn-Out, World-Weary Romanticism of Desperation There are some songs that, upon the very first note, transport you not just to a memory, but to an entire psychic landscape. They…
Ted Nugent – Queen of the Forest
An Ode to Primal Power: The Enduring Rock Mythology of Nature’s Sovereign Spirit It was 1975, a year that marked a raw, unapologetic shift in the landscape of American hard…
Ted Nugent – Homebound
“Home Bound” is the unexpected, soulful instrumental journey on the wild ride of Cat Scratch Fever, representing a moment of poignant reflection amidst the usual hard rock frenzy. There are…