The consistent solidity of Mountain’s Nantucket Sleighride (released January 1971) should not come as any surprise. Commonly perceived as the band’s sophomore album, it is, in fact, the third project
It’s hardly fair to say guitarist/composer Julian Lage saved his best work for Blue Note Records. After all, he released a handful of memorable albums, such as Arclight, prior to joining
Mike Mattison & Trash Magic make it all sound easy on Turn A Midnight Corner. A uniformly excellent explorative statement in contemporary blues, this Landslide Records effort is the flashpoint
It didn’t take five decades to discern how much Bob Dylan’s Desire benefited from its release almost immediately in the wake of the previous autumn’s Rolling Thunder tour. The public
Rhino Records has issued some very expansive archival collections of the Replacements’ music, and, at least in terms of heft, this triple-CD set of Let It Be doesn’t quite measure
It was almost six years ago to the day that Bela Fleck and the Flecktones played at the Flynn Center and, through their good-natured stage presence and keen collective musical
Anyone who thought the Byrds’ debut album was the work of a one-hit wonder based on the commercial success of “Mr. Tambourine Man” turned out to be sadly mistaken when
Listening to The Who’s debut album, My Generation (released 12/3/65) with a six-decade perspective, it is hard to believe this band would evolve into the creators of some of the
In the 60 years since its release, the Beatles’ Rubber Soul (12/3/65) has come to be regarded as one of the pinnacles of the Liverpudlians’ discography. But, sacrilegious as it may sound,
The legacy of Brent Mydland continues to grow with this latest edition of the ongoing Grateful Dead archive series. The departure of Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux in 1979 opened
