The Kinks — Golden Hour of the Kinks
When I started writing about The Kinks for this project, I was a little bit confused. I looked at The Kinks Greatest Hits and The Live Kinks, and wondered: could those really have been...
Category: ’70s
Carole King — Music
I belong to a lovely little Facebook group of mostly local music aficionados, who actually get together in person from time to time. (It’s kinda like back when we had a society.) We throw...
Carole King — Tapestry
I don’t know how, and I’m not sure I should admit this, but I made it through the ’70s without ever procuring a copy of Tapestry. It came out in February 1971, a year...
Albert King — Truckload of Lovin’
As I said last time, I only had a handful of Albert King songs until pretty recently. I picked this one up on my first trip to Siren Records back in February 2020, just...
Jefferson Airplane — Long John Silver
From 1972, this is the final Jefferson Airplane album (if you consider them the same band without Marty Balin, and if you discount the 1989 reunion album which I’ve never heard). Similar to Bark,...
Jefferson Airplane – Bark
“Bark” came from 1971. Marty Balin had left the band, so the band went on to create this record showing how important he was. Let’s be clear: this isn’t exactly terrible. It’s just the...
Tommy James & The Shondells — Travelin’
It’s my opinion that this is in its own way the finest Tommy James & The Shondells album. It didn’t produce any big hits (although “She” got to #23, and “Gotta Get Back to...
Joe Jackson — I’m the Man
I mostly came to Joe Jackson, like millions of others, through “Night and Day,” which came out in 1982. I was very aware of “Look Sharp!” – maybe my roommate had it. For whatever...
Iggy Pop – Iggy Pop
Ya know, I never got into Iggy Pop in my earlier years. When I was young, his harder edged sound just wouldn’t have been my thing. And when I became more aware of his...
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