Crack The Sky | Crack The Sky – Lost Gem
One can count very few progressive American bands ever rising to the level of their popular U.K. counterparts. Kansas and Styx immediately come to mind, but there are a...
Dave Davies | Rock Bottom: Live At The Bottom Line – Lost Gem
Proverbial sidekick and second fiddle Dave Davies opens his live album Rock Bottom, released in 2000, with not one, but two Kinks numbers written by his brother Ray. Sounding every...
The Beach Boys | Hawthorne, CA: Birthplace Of A Musical Legacy – Lost Gem
The second Beach Boys anthology release from Capitol Records, 2001's Hawthorne, CA: Birthplace Of A Musical Legacy is a 57-track collage of session outtakes, live numbers, studio banter, band...
Peter Gabriel | Up – Lost Gem
Ten years between albums for most any artist would instantly eliminate him or her from the chart of relevance, much less illicit further interest from anyone who ever cared....
Stevie Wonder | Talking Book – CD Review
One of the great cross-over records of all time, Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book shattered the myth that R & B artists were incapable of dishing out something even the...
David Bowie | Reality – Lost Gem
It is real or is it Ziggy? Before his time was up, the singer had any number of tricks up his sleeve. Never one to turn away from a...
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Trout Mask Replica – Lost Gem
Whether by detour or design, the antics of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart were enough to fan the flames of the misdirected idealism that eerily seeped out from the...
Phoenix | Phoenix In Full View – CD Review
From the ashes of Argent's final 1976 tour, the band Phoenix rose. Argent's
strong lead vocalist and guitarist John Verity, drummer Bob Henrit and bassist/keyboardist
Jim Rodford initially formed H.R.V., pledging...
Eric Burdon | ‘Til Your River Runs Dry – Lost Gem
As the powerful, gritty lead singer of the Animals in the 60s, Eric Burdon was an inspiration to the likes of John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix. In 1969, he...
Renaissance | Scheherazade And Other Stories – Lost Gem
Among the truly important progressive rock albums on the 70s, Renaissance’s Scheherazade And Other Stories is a high watermark of songwriting, production and playing. This album features arguably the...
