Jackson Browne – Under the Falling Sky
Oldies Songs 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…
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…