Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
Oldies Songs 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,…
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…