Midnight Oil | Essential Oils – CD Review
The aptly named Essential Oils is a double CD compilation that pretty much spans the entire career of Australia's Midnight Oil - beginning with tracks from their 1978 self-titled...
Buddy Holly w/ The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | True Love Ways – CD Review
Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s tragic plane crash (which also took the lives of Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson) True Love Ways presents 12 songs featuring...
Various Artists | Mullets Rock! – Compilation Review
One of more novel compilations of 2003 was Mullets Rock, a double disc that remarkably captures the rock n' roll spirit of everyday Joes like you and me and...
Various Artists | The Bottom Line Archive Series – CD Review
Ah the days of The Bottom Line. The venerable small music club in the West Village of New York City has seen historic multi-night stands by Bruce Springsteen and...
The Doors | Paris Blues – Compilation Review
The Doors fabled studio outtake, “Paris Blues,” recorded either for The Soft Parade or L.A. Woman (the band could never seem to remember) was thought lost. The only tape of the tune...
Jimi Hendrix | West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology – Box Set...
After the beefy reissues of the Jimi Hendrix Experience catalog, Legacy and Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. complete the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s untimely passing, with a brilliant, broad stroke...
Roger Daltrey | Gold – CD Review
Roger Daltrey never set out to be a solo artist. He’s always been content being the lead singer of the Who. But it was inevitable the opportunity would come...
Jethro Tull | The Château d’Herouville Sessions – Compilation Release Review
Back in the day as much as now in the day, Ian Anderson had the propensity and capacity to write a lot of music. One stroll though the Tull...
The Jeff Healey Band | House On Fire – CD Review
The Jeff Healey Band's House On Fire features 11 songs of studio rarities and demos recorded between 1992 and 1998. The is an interesting mix of both covers and...
Keith Emerson | Honky | At The Movies | Off The Shelf – CD...
Keith Emerson, despite a series of misfortunes and miscalculated career moves, is still considered a legendary virtuoso of the keyboards. The Nice and ELP fading in his rearview mirror,...
