Doug Collette

Rose Hill Drive: Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT – 11/08/07

Doug Collette November 19, 2007 No Comments

Rose Hill Drive’s performance set reached a frenzied conclusion, before a dwindling crowd. The threesome enganged in more free-form improvisation than their previous visit to this same venue back in May of this year: recall the instrumental conflagrations of Cream in their heyday, if you would, and relish the self-renewing aspect of great rock and roll.

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Ian Hunter: Shrunken Heads

Doug Collette November 12, 2007 No Comments

As leader of Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter was as vulnerable as he was acerbic, seeing rock and roll as a metaphor for all facets of the human condition. The perpetually-shaded iconoclast has continued this work through a dozen post-Mott solo albums, the success of which has depended, as is the case with most literate songwriters, on the balance between musicianship/production and the material as means to a message.

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Bob Dylan: Dylan (Legacy 3 CD Set)

Doug Collette November 6, 2007 No Comments

All four previous Bob Dylan collections, not counting The Bootleg Series, contained nuggets sufficiently rare to entice both the completists and the novice collector. The choice selections of the new three-cd compilation (also available in a single disc distillation as well as part of a deluxe collections box) counter claims it's redundant.

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Peter Case: Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John

Doug Collette October 26, 2007 No Comments

With his new album Peter Case has come full circle. While Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John is not the same sharp turn as his eponymous 1986 album was (in contrast to the preceding rockin’ Plimsouls), the Californian’s first on the Yep Roc label does constitute a return to simplicity (not to mention a homage to roots) that’s refreshing in conception and execution.

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Jefferson Airplane: Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Live at the Fillmore East 1969

Doug Collette October 24, 2007 No Comments

It’s perfectly appropriate Jorma Kaukonen writes the brief liner notes to this recently exhumed Jefferson Airplane concert recording. Sweeping Up the Spotlight documents Jefferson Airplane just as it was fracturing along the fault line that opened earlier in 1969 when the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter launched Hot Tuna with bassist Jack Casady.

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