‘Nother one from the Voice. Sorry if the formatting looks a mite odd, as tends to happen with these transfers, despite my attempts to compensate (I am just a country boy). Here goes: GrooveGrass Boyz get a-Roused. May […]
‘Nother one from the Voice. Sorry if the formatting looks a mite odd, as tends to happen with these transfers, despite my attempts to compensate (I am just a country boy). Here goes: GrooveGrass Boyz get a-Roused. May […]
Neil Young a bluesman? Well, stranger things have happened. If Buster Poindexter can claim that title, so can Young. Funny thing is, based on the evidence on this two-CD, four vinyl LP set, Young is a bluesman, and a helluva […]
Consider it a mark of artistic vigor that Neil Young continues to surprise after all these decades. It’s hard to remember a Young release that has been as thematically cohesive yet as musically diverse as Chrome Dreams II. Where most […]
Maybe because the tease for Neil Young’s unveiling of recordings from his personal treasure trove has gone on for so long, and expectations are so high, the first installment in the series, last year’s Live At The Fillmore East was […]
Eric Clapton spent the 1960s facing down emotional anguish and howling the blues as both a singer and guitarist. Then he heard J.J. Cale, and fell in love with the idea of smoothing out pain and pleasure into an even-keeled […]
As with most major artists, the lion’s share of Neil Young’s Reprise catalog was converted to CD in the late 1980s, digital’s frontier days, with little consideration given to sound quality, presentation or artistic intent. At the time, not much […]
Neil Young’s 29th album begins to describe itself, not far from its end. “The flash of a distant camera, reconnecting thoughts and actions…Fragments of our missing dream, pieces from here and there…Fall in place along the line, disappearing between you […]
Quick — name three Dwight Yoakam songs. Not as easy as you’d think, is it? Nothing against the man’s songwriting abilities, but let’s face facts here: “Songwriting” is not the first word that leaps to mind when one ponders the […]
The seduction of the Replacements is alive and well, and, as much as I might have intended to approach this record review with proper critical distance, well, that was blown out the window like a cigarette butt at 90 mph […]
Way back at the dawn of his career, a shocking 15 years of hair loss ago now, Dwight Yoakam looked to be crossover big. Riffing on Buck Owens and Don Rich, Yoakam and longtime collaborator Pete Anderson were presented as […]
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