Rory Block — Intoxication
I haven’t had the chance to write about Rory Block before, even though she takes up an amount of space in my CD collection. In the early ’90s we had […]
I haven’t had the chance to write about Rory Block before, even though she takes up an amount of space in my CD collection. In the early ’90s we had […]
Honestly, I had never heard of Marc Benno until I happened to take a chance on an odd Leon Russell album I found at Forever Changes just about a year […]
Less than two months after I found “Magic Christian Music,” another nice Badfinger record turned up in the Forever Changes bins: 1971’s “Straight Up.” This is a classic, with “Day […]
For the longest time, there has been a Badfinger-sized hole in my record collection. Back when we were initially collecting records, in the early ’80s, my roommate Danny had several […]
So it happens that I’m touching on this one before I leave the ‘M’ section of my collection, but in fact this begins a long series of “catch-up” entries – […]
It’s so weird to think about how very many department stores there used to be that just don’t exist anymore, and in particular how many boomed and busted in the […]
Throughout my discussion of the The Moody Blues, I’ve had to put off the deep discussion about what they mean to me for this record – simply because of my […]
From 1972, a No. 1 album for The Moody Blues, with two great songs by bassist John Lodge being the most memorable, “Isn’t Life Strange,” “I’m Just a Singer (in […]
1971 – peak year for a concept album, no? It’s pretty remarkable to look back at the output of The Moody Blues (and, indeed, so many artists working at this time) […]
Weirdly, I was standing around outside an open mic the other night, waiting in line, and in a conversation with another performer about how much he loved the ’70s classics, […]