HOT ROCKS: New Releases from Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Liam Gallagher, DIO, and Sepultura Vinny Cecolini Albums February 23, 2020
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On The Record: Judy Collins’ ‘Spellbound’ & Natalie Cole’s ‘Unforgettable,’ Plus Tone Of Voice Orchestra, The Lied To’s, & Back POrchEstra Jeff Burger Columns March 11, 2022 0Judy Collins, Spellbound. During Judy Collins’s recording career, which has produced 55 albums and spanned more than half a century, she has...
On The Record: Elliott Murphy with Olivier Durand, plus the Troggs, Kate Klim, & Terry Klein Jeff Burger Columns March 4, 2022 0Elliott Murphy’s catalog of more than four dozen first-rate albums ranks among rock’s best-kept secrets. If you’re familiar with his...
On The Record: The Left Banke, ‘The Beatles and India,’ Peter Tosh, the HawtThorns, & April March Jeff Burger Columns February 25, 2022 0The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train. The last album by the Left Banke – whose output included the 1966...
On the Record: Charley Patton, Jesse Correll, Mike Zito, Amy Jay, the Pine Hearts, & Joan Osborne Jeff Burger Columns February 18, 2022 0Charley Patton, Volumes 1–3 (1929–1934). Despite his induction last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Charley Patton still hasn’t garnered...
On The Record: Lucinda Williams and John Sebastian Plus Marshall Crenshaw, Wild Rivers, Michael Veitch, & Kate MacLeod Jeff Burger Columns February 11, 2022 0More Great Covers from Lucinda Williams In an earlier column, I wrote about the first four volumes of Lucinda Williams’s Lu’s Jukebox,...
On The Record: Janis Ian, Hollywood Flames, Whitmore Sisters, Julie Christensen, & more Jeff Burger Columns February 4, 2022 0Janis Ian’s Final Statement? In 1967, at age 15, Janis Ian scored a Top 20 hit with “Society’s Child (Baby...
On The Record: An Interview with John Sebastian Jeff Burger Columns January 28, 2022 0The Lovin’ Spoonful cofounder, who composed some of the greatest hit singles of the 1960s, talks about his childhood, his...
On The Record: David Bowie’s ‘Brilliant Adventure’ Plus Elvis Costello’s ‘The Boy Named If’ Jeff Burger Columns January 21, 2022 0Shortly before cancer ended David Bowie’s life in 2016, his record company began issuing a series of box sets that...
On The Record: Alan Freed’s Radio Shows, Eliza Gilkyson, Mickey & Sylvia, & Grant Dermody and Frank Fotusky Jeff Burger Columns January 14, 2022 0A Musical Time Machine Imagine being able to go back in time and listen in on legendary disc jockey Alan...
On The Record: A 50th-Anniversary Edition of Frank Zappa’s ‘200 Motels’ plus Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Chelsea Walls’ soundtrack & Josh Caterer’s ‘Space Sessions’ Jeff Burger Columns January 7, 2022 0Lots of craziness went down in the arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but it’s hard to think...