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 […]
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It must have been 70 years ago today when Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, because the Beatles’ iconic album came out half a century ago. It’s difficult to believe that it has been that long—or that it has […]
This has been a terrific time for fans of the late, great Big Star. Last fall brought a definitive three-CD reissue of Third, the influential rock group’s most celebrated album, that includes a ton of fine, previously unreleased material. Now […]
Triplicate—a three-CD, 30-song set—represents Bob Dylan’s third exploration of the Great American Songbook, following 2014’s Shadows in the Night and 2016’s Fallen Angels. Like those albums, it was produced by Jack Frost (aka Robert Zimmerman, Blind Boy Grunt, and you […]
In 1967, the then newly formed Nitty Gritty Dirt Band scored an amiable but forgettable minor pop/rock hit with “Buy for Me the Rain,” which failed to crack the Top 40. Few listeners could have guessed at the time that […]
According to conventional wisdom, Fleetwood Mac’s peak occurred between 1975 and 1977, when the band—reinvigorated by the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks—issued an eponymous album and Rumours. Many critics viewed the 1979 follow-up to the latter LP, Tusk, […]
Eric Bibb, Migration Blues. Records don’t get much more timely than this latest release from blues singer/songwriter Eric Bibb, which focuses largely on the plight of refugees. “While pondering the current refugee crisis,” writes Bibb in a booklet that accompanies […]
Even if you’re old enough to have spent the British Invasion years glued to a radio, you may well be unfamiliar with the pop/rock group the Creation. Little-noticed latter-day reunions with assorted lineups aside, the original band’s career lasted only […]
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 […]
Chip Taylor, A Song I Can Live With. In the early days of Chip Taylor’s remarkable career, he penned some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, most notably “Wild Thing” (Jimi Hendrix, the Troggs) and “Angel of the Morning” […]
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