Buck was always the first to put down his Warners output, but you almost have to hear it all in one place to comprehend how oppressively lackluster it really was. Reeling from the death of his friend and collaborator Don […]
Buck was always the first to put down his Warners output, but you almost have to hear it all in one place to comprehend how oppressively lackluster it really was. Reeling from the death of his friend and collaborator Don […]
Though she’s released recordings for over 40 years now, Judy Henske never had that big breakthrough, and the music on this career-spanning retrospective clearly reveals why: Her musical idiosyncrasies made her unclassifiable, and if there’s one thing the music mainstream […]
As an examination of the moment when down-home whites and their equally down-home but somewhat less privileged black neighbors could no longer speak to each other, Tony Joe White’s “Willie And Laura Mae Jones” is as valuable a ’60s document […]
No one is likely to mistake Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina for Wyman and Watts, but with the right leader (Neil Young, say), their irregular pulse and off-kilter kerplunkety provide crucial warmth and character. Crazy Horse’s 1971 self-titled debut, with […]
When the Beau Brummels are mentioned in music history books, it’s usually in deference to FM DJ Tom Donohue, who signed them to his Autumn label, or to Sly Stewart (later known as Sly Stone), who produced them. In spite […]
The essence of Jimmy Webb’s artistry is exemplified in an unlikely place on this five-disc set, which collects all of his 1970s studio albums plus a 1972 live concert and an assortment of outtakes. It’s the last of those outtakes, […]
It seems likely that Jean Ritchie was the first woman other than my mother with whom I fell in love. I would have been about five years old and have no memory of what she looked like; worse, I fear […]
With its two-man membership, the Virginia-to-L.A.-and-back-again duo House Of Freaks might have been better named Foyer Of Freaks. That said, the pair — guitarist-vocalist Bryan Harvey and percussionist supreme Johnny Hott — were able to generate a genuine musical ruckus, […]
The Beat Farmers were already on a major label tour by the time I stumbled into them during the summer of 1986. They were opening for the Smithereens in Morgantown, West Virginia, and I was there with the now ex-wife […]
Singer-songwriter Judee Sill embraced the rebelliousness and self-destruction of the early 1970s. She sang like a world-weary angel rising above her world of hard drugs, jail and reform school (where, according to her myth, she learned to play gospel piano). […]
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