On May 5, 1968, Buffalo Springfield (Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young), the band that launched a thousand — well, several, anyway — bands that would define country-rock music in the late ’60s and early […]
On May 5, 1968, Buffalo Springfield (Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young), the band that launched a thousand — well, several, anyway — bands that would define country-rock music in the late ’60s and early […]
More than 32 million people have already checked into the Eagles’ Hotel California, a country-rock landmark that first charted during Christmas week in 1976 and spent two months in the No. 1 slot. The group’s third chart-topper (following One of […]
I can’t listen to Fleetwood Mac’s eponymous 1975 album without thinking of a lunch meeting I had in New York City early in the year before its release. I had arranged an interview with a folk duo called Carlson and […]
To fully appreciate what the Ramones accomplished, you have to put them in context. Their eponymous debut LP came out in April of 1976, when the Billboard charts listed syrupy pop like Diana Ross’s “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know […]
The Grateful Dead’s May 8, 1977 gig at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York—which included two sets, ran close to three hours, and is presented here on three discs—quickly came to be regarded as the best show of the group’s […]
There has never been enough soul to go around. Even when it was being poured out by the bucketful, it drained away so quickly that nothing was left but a damp spot to mark its journey. But that damp spot […]
The rap on the Grateful Dead’s eponymous 1967 debut album—which the group mostly recorded in just four days—is that they didn’t yet understand the studio and failed to accurately represent what they could accomplish in concert. There’s some truth in […]
To many, they’re just a musical footnote, a blip on a tiny screen that glowed brightly nearly 50 years ago then faded into obscurity. But the Monkees are a true cultural phenomenon,selling over 75 million records and amassing a legion […]
No rock group ever bade farewell to its fans more memorably than the Band. On Thanksgiving Day in 1976—after eight years of gigs in roadhouses, bars, and dance halls and another eight in the big time (some of that with […]
He could get more out of a moan than many singers could wring out of a career. Ray Charles was the voice of pain, agony set to music that bared his soul and exposed his genius to the world. Rhino […]
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