Bobby Rydell | Bobby Rydell Salutes The Great Ones / Rydell At The Copa...

Bobby Rydell Salutes The Great Ones/Rydell At The Copa contains two albums on one CD — all from a still-teenage Bobby Rydell. Out of print for over 40 years,...

Carl Palmer | Working Live Volume 3 – CD Review

Drummer Carl Palmer still hits very hard, very hard indeed. Carl Palmer is still pushing the limits of his drumming, pushing very hard indeed. Carl Palmer is not a...

Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble | Couldn’t Stand the Weather (Legacy Edition) –...

Greetings, everyone! I'm Hal Packer, chief curator of the National Rock Gods Museum (not to be confused with the National Rock and Roll Hall of fame, which enjoys a...

The Derek Trucks Band | Roadsongs – CD Review

The live animals that they are, the Derek Trucks Band has stirred the pot with yet another token from the road, Roadsongs. The double-disc set was recorded over two...

Roy Orbison | The Last Concert – CD Review

December 4, 1988. The last time Roy Orbison ever sang in public. He would die two days later. No stranger to hardship, the singer was on a major comeback...

John Lennon | 2010 Remasters – CD Review

It’s hard to imagine, borrowing a completely overused pun in this context, what John Lennon would be doing at 70. Speculation from those who knew him best seems to...

Billy Joel | The Hits – CD Review

The 40th anniversary of Billy Joel’s first solo album, the often maligned, sometimes forgotten and supposedly terribly mixed Cold Spring Harbor comes around 2011. For now, the wonderfully stripped...

Queensrÿche | Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) – CD Review

When asked why heavy metal bands like Motley Crüe and Poison started to lose steam in the early 90s, it’s typically the same excuse: grunge. Emerging from the same general...

Bob Dylan | The Witmark Demos – CD Review

When Bob Dylan first started, the music business was a completely different game from what it is today. Songwriters wrote the songs and different singers sang those songs. At...

Paul McCartney & Wings | Band On The Run – CD Review

In 1999, a 25th anniversary edition of Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1973 Band On The Run hit the market with a second disc of outtakes, alternate takes and mixes...