Carole King & James Taylor – It’s Too Late
Oldies Songs An Enduring Friendship Finds the Undramatic Poetry in Letting Go: The Live Revival of the Definitive Breakup Song, Sung By Its Greatest Collaborative Pair. The air inside the tiny, sacred…
The Three Degrees – When Will I See You Again
The Enduring Heartache of a Single Question: A Timeless Ballad that Captured the Lingering Doubt of Love’s Uncertain Dawn. There are records that simply arrive, and then there are those…
Donald Fagen – Good Stuff
The Sinister Pleasure of a Perfectly Executed Heist: A Funky, Film-Noir Vignette Celebrating the Cold Satisfaction of Professional Criminality. To dive into a Donald Fagen track is to step onto…
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
An Anthem of Primal, Nihilistic Desire, “I Wanna Be Your Dog” Is the Three-Chord Ground Zero for Punk Rock and the Emotional Blueprint for Rock and Roll Alienation. In the…
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower
A Fiery, Apocalyptic Reinterpretation of an Allegorical Masterpiece: The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Cover of “All Along the Watchtower” is the Rare Instance Where the Pupil Overtakes the Master, Transforming a…
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
The Uncensored Battle Cry of a Generation: A Furious, Live-Wire Exhortation to Revolution, Art, and Total Abandon. In the late 1960s, a record didn’t just spin on a turntable; it…
The Three Degrees – Year of Decision
An Anthem of Urgent Self-Reflection: The Timeless Call for Personal Reckoning Set to the Glorious, Sweeping Sound of Philadelphia Soul. The mid-1970s was a majestic, shimmering age when the heart…
James Taylor – Mexico
A Sunny-Day Dream of Escape: James Taylor’s Unexpected Ode to Anonymity and Tropical Freedom from the Weight of Fame. For those of us who came of age in the 1970s,…
Ted Nugent – Hard As Nails
A Riff-Driven, Unapologetic Proclamation of Primal American Hard Rock Identity in the Face of Changing Musical Tides. The year 1980 was a critical and complicated junction in the history of…
Steely Dan – Things I Miss The Most
The Elegantly Cynical Divorce: A Wealthy Man’s Bittersweet Inventory of Material Loss, Proving That Even Heartbreak is Subject to a Sophisticated Cost-Benefit Analysis. For the devoted connoisseur of American music,…