Whitesnake – Crying In The Rain (Greatest Hits 2022)
Oldies Songs The Rain Falls for the Last Time: Whitesnake Turns Memory into a Farewell Statement As Whitesnake prepares to close the curtain on a career that has spanned decades, “Crying In…
Chicago – You’re Not Alone (1989)
When the Horns Softened: Chicago and the Sound That Divided a Generation By the time Chicago walked onto the stage at the Houston Astrodome in March 1989, they were no…
Jack Johnson – Main Square Festival 2014
He Didn’t Play the Festival. He Changed Its Temperature. There’s a strange moment in that 2014 Main Square set when you realize something is off. Not wrong. Just… different. Thousands…
Grand Funk Railroad Live – Are You Ready (1969)
Before the Records Sold, the Crowd Already Knew In the late summer of 1969, on the wide open grounds of the Texas International Pop Festival, Grand Funk Railroad stepped onto…
Alan Lancaster – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Demo)
Before the Split: The Demo That Quietly Exposed a Rift Inside Status Quo In the early 1980s, long before the official departure of Alan Lancaster in 1985, the internal direction…
David Essex – Rock On (Wembley Arena, London 2017)
When “Rock On” Returned to Wembley, Time Stood Perfectly Still On an autumn night in 2017, David Essex stepped onto the stage at Wembley Arena and delivered a performance that…
Chicago – Interview (1991) – “Twenty1 Tour” in Mexico
A Tour Built on Memory: Chicago Chooses Legacy Over Spectacle in Mexico, 1991 In a candid 1991 interview filmed during the “Twenty 1 Tour” in Mexico, members of Chicago offered…
The Bombers – Running In The Shadows
Running Toward the Light That Never Came: The Quiet Fate of The Bombers There is something quietly unsettling about watching The Bombers perform “Running in the Shadows.” Not because of…
Mountain – The Laird
Story Inside a Loud Beginning: “The Laird” and the Hidden Depth of Early Mountain When listeners return to Climbing! (1970), the debut statement from Mountain, it is often the explosive…
Red Robinson’s Legends Of Rock – Chicago’s Robert Lamm
“We Never Thought Music Would Be Our Lives”: Robert Lamm Reflects on Chicago’s Unlikely Longevity In a revealing 2012 conversation on Red Robinson’s Legends of Rock, Robert Lamm of Chicago…