Journey | Columbia Reissues (1981 – 1996)
Long-term relationships are about as rare as encountering a unicorn, glimpsing the Loch Ness Monster, or discovering socks that mysteriously vanish in the dryer. Yet Journey has been able...
Lou Reed | Coney Island Baby – CD Review
I was five when Lou Reed’s Coney Island Baby was released in 1976, so needless to say, I wasn’t familiar with the album when it came out. In fact,...
Boston | Boston | Don’t Look Back – Reissue Review
Nineteen seventy-six was a transitional year in rock and roll. The limit had pretty much reached the sky with bands like Yes and ELP. Roots music in the form...
The Jeff Beck Group | Truth | Beck-Ola – Reissue Review
Although it was intended to function solely as a vehicle for the former Yardbirds guitarist, The Jeff Beck Group haphazardly introduced the world to a couple of unknowns by...
Little Feat | The Best Of Little Feat – Compilation Review
It is with some surprise to receive a copy of The Best Of Little Feat from Rhino Records. Surprising, not because of the contents of the disc; Little Feat were one...
Buddy Guy | Can’t Quit The Blues
Over the course of the past 50 years, few artists serve as a better bridge
between the classic Chicago Blues sounds of the 50s and 60s and modern rock
and roll...
Aerosmith | Devil’s Got A New Disguise: The Very Best Of Aerosmith
Aerosmith has released a greatest hits collection once again — just
in time for the Christmas shopping season (although apparently not at Tower
Records), and in the midst of their mega...
The Pretenders | Pretenders & Pretenders II – CD Review
Rhino has reissued Pretenders and Pretenders II , the first two albums from the Pretenders, as two-disc sets. The first disc contains a remastered version of the original album,...
Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash At San Quentin (Legacy Edition) – CD Review
“San Quentin, I hate every inch of you. You’ve cut me and you’ve scarred me through and through”
When Johnny Cash recorded Johnny Cash At San Quentin in 1969, it...
Def Leppard | Hysteria (Deluxe Edition)
Def Leppard’s Hysteria is to rock music what the Mona
Lisa is to art, or the Parthenon is to architecture — a masterpiece. Originally
released in 1987, it represented a pinnacle...
