Slade – Martha My Dear
Oldies Songs 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…
Slade – Miles Out to Sea
An emotional reflection on the wild, surreal distance fame can create. The year was 1974. For those of us who lived through the glorious, glitter-drenched, yet strangely grounding era of…
Jackson Browne – The Times You’ve Come
Finding Hope and Steadfast Love in the Face of Life’s Inevitable Tides The heart of Jackson Browne’s second album, 1973’s masterpiece For Everyman, beats with a profound weariness, a contemplative…
Steely Dan – My Rival
The Paranoia and Possessive Longing of a Man on the Edge, Driven to Madness by the Phantom of His Undoing There are some albums that arrive not as music, but…