Paul McCartney | Memory Almost Full (Limited Edition) – CD Review
I rarely bother with reissues of new records, even if they include DVDs. And I especially won't go out of my way for a reissue of an album I...
King Crimson | Red (50th Anniversary Edition) – Reissue Review
You can’t really talk about King Crimson without bringing up Red. It was released five years after the group’s debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King, and unceremoniously...
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,...
Fleetwood Mac | Rumours 35th Anniversary Edition – CD Review
Released in February of 1977, Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's eleventh and best-selling album. In fact, it is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Selling in excess of...
Paul Simon | 2011 Reissues – CD Review
It wasn’t surprising that Paul Simon went through the 70s with a string of solo hits. Splitting with his partner Art Garfunkel, the main songwriter of the team went...
Warren Zevon | Reissues – CD Review
Warren Zevon’s music has never failed in its primeval, passionate march to break the barrier of conformity. Although the late singer-songwriter’s substance and style were often deemed too unorthodox...
Paul McCartney & Wings | Venus & Mars & At The Speed of Sound...
As Paul McCartney, the Energizer Bunny of rock, continues to play stadiums and issue new music, the archives have been shedding some sweet goodies. The reissues of Wings albums...
Deep Purple | NOW What?! Gold Edition – CD Review
In 2013, Deep Purple released NOW What?!, their 19th studio album. I called it the best Purple studio album since Perfect Strangers, released almost 30 years beforehand. It also...
Judas Priest | Turbo 30 – CD Review
The vibrato bar ramp-up of full-on danger (and what might just be one of Rob Halford’s best vocals) of “Turbo Lover” begins Turbo 30, the remastered 30th Anniversary Edition...
B.B. King & Eric Clapton | Riding With The King – CD Review
It’s no secret that Eric Clapton is a student of the blues. When the Yardbirds began to have hit singles, Clapton left and joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers so he...
