After the recording sessions of Blue Suede Shoes (’73), Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella) decides to tour Europe with the same stellar rockin’ band that backed him up on the album. Larry Carlton and his guitar are missing (replaced by Johnny […]
In 1970 the fabulous seventies were just gone and not just because of a mere matter of dates: it was the idea of confining the world and its stories in the few minutes of a song that was ending. Instead, […]
If the world had been a fair place, and sadly we know it’s not or at least we can identify justice only in the vest of a spoiled lady, the recent reissues of the first three record by Dirk Hamilton […]
Think about it: Season Of Lights, published in 1977 as the first live album by the New Yorker Laura Nyro (prematurely died in 1997) as well as her second album after five years of artistic silence following the marriage with […]
I thought I had seen almost everything but this one is new. As you know, when crisis strikes we’re all invited to work harder and so it happens that the Dutch CRS has started a new series of releases called […]
First point – the songs of Alejandro Escovedo have a peculiarity (ok, they have many, but one stands out among the other): the gift to sound immediately as the most original among the possible interpretations. It is not something so […]
As I could be accused of partisanship, I declare immediately my factiousness towards The Feelies of Bill Million and Glenn Mercer, group that still today I repute one of the most important and underestimated bands of the 1980s. A group […]
Instrumentist for Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and Flamin Groovies. Producer of Green On Red, Replacements<, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Willy DeVille, Mudhoney and Tav Falco. Leader of Mudboy & The Neutrons, a grungy swill of swamp-blues, country and rock […]
