No Frills Jamboree with Stephen Kellogg & Will Varley at City Winery NYC / January 29, 2025 Concerts February 5, 2025
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On The Record: The Doors Live in Sweden in 1968, plus Gene Clark; Richard, Cam & Bert; & the Flying Burrito Brothers Jeff Burger Columns April 26, 2024 0Doors fans can’t go wrong by picking up Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm; September 20, 1968, a mesmerizing new two-CD or three-LP set....
On The Record: Willie Nile, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ann Savoy, Stephen Bluhm, the Stetson Family, & Misner & Smith Jeff Burger Columns April 19, 2024 0Willie Nile, Live at Daryl’s House Club. Rock singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Willie Nile has been releasing albums since 1980, but he...
On The Record: The Wandering Hearts, plus Domenic Cicala, the HawtThorns, Dawn Landes, & the Glass Hours Jeff Burger Columns April 12, 2024 0Since they released their eponymous sophomore album in 2021, the British folk trio The Wandering Heartshave hooked up with a new producer, Steve...
On The Record: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt Blake, Pete Ham, & Eddie Hinton Jeff Burger Columns April 5, 2024 0This column rarely covers EPs – the unending flood of full-length CDs is more than enough to keep a critic busy – but a six-song set called Wonder...
On The Record: ‘New Guitars in Town’ (a Power-Pop Anthology), plus Christian Parker, Ted Russell Kamp, Marcia Griffiths & Willie Lindo Jeff Burger Columns March 29, 2024 0As this column noted last year, “Power pop has always been a loosely defined genre – a big umbrella for...
On The Record: Dion’s ‘Girl Friends’ & the Rolling Stones ‘Live at the Wiltern,’ plus John Smith & Doris Troy Jeff Burger Columns March 22, 2024 0Dion DiMucci, one of rock’s most deservedly celebrated singers, regularly occupied high positions on the pop charts from 1957 to...
On The Record: Tom Rush’s ‘Gardens Old, Flowers New,’ plus the Little Girls, Eddie Bond, & Freddie Scott Jeff Burger Columns March 15, 2024 0Folk singer Tom Rush, who has been performing and recording for more than 60 years, has long been known primarily as an...
On The Record: the Who’s ‘Live at Shea Stadium,’ plus Rockabilly Anthologies & CDs from Johnny Adams & Tyrone Cotton Jeff Burger Columns March 8, 2024 0“Strange as it seems now, with the survivors of the Who still playing live nearly 60 years after the band’s...
On The Record: ‘The JFK Inauguration: US Top 100 20th January 1961,’ plus Mike Zito, Vanessa Peters, & Lance Cowan Jeff Burger Columns March 1, 2024 0According to conventional wisdom, rock experienced a fallow period from around the time we lost Buddy Holly in January 1959...
On The Record: ‘You Can Walk Across It on the Grass: The Boutique Sounds of Swinging London,’ plus Paul Collins & Gordon Grdina Jeff Burger Columns February 23, 2024 0After the Beatles conquered the world, the world turned its eyes to the Fab Four’s home country and particularly to...