Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Tennessee Studs (Foggy Mountain Breakthrough)
Within the sphere of popular music in Nixonian-era 1972, there’s an interesting hybrid of commercial acts. Teen idols, hard rockers, proggers, female belters, country crooners, soulsters — nothing is...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: ‘I’m Mississippi, Got The New York Blues’ (Forbert Comes Alive)
Photos courtesy of Steve Forbert
Between 1977 and 1978, at the height of the Bowery punk movement, a fresh-faced 22/23-year-old singing-songwriting Mississippian named Steve Forbert strove to make New York...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Shaking It Up Solo ~ Benjamin Orr’s ‘The Lace’
Photo Courtesy of Diane Grey Page
Benjamin Orr
The Lace
“The reason it took me so long to do a solo project is that nobody asked me to do one before...”
— Benjamin...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Gone Solo
Photos courtesy of Georgia Rose Lucas
Ethereal, whimsical, and utterly ahead of her time, Alexandra Elene MacLean “Sandy” Denny was one of the more beautiful and fragile artists to envelop...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Exposure (“We Are Maggie and Terre and Suzzy”)
Photos courtesy of Terre and Suzzy Roche
Forty years ago, guitar legend Robert Fripp unveiled two of his most unique album efforts — neither of which bared the King Crimson label.
First,...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Driven To Sniff ‘n’ the Tears
Photos Courtesy of Paul Roberts
Their lone U.S. hit begins simply enough until nine seconds in — a few acoustic guitar strums and then POW, the musical gas is punched...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Think Of Laura (“G-L-O-R-I-A!”)
Photos Courtesy of Other Half Entertainment Archive
One thing our society will never tire of — be it via sports, arts, or other mediums – is Cinderella stories.
One of the...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Power of Collaborative Gold ~ Dan Fogelberg & Tim...
Photo by Norman Seeff
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg
Twin Sons of Different Mothers
“This album constitutes a collaboration, experimental in nature, between Tim and myself. It is an attempt for both...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Jon Butcher Axis – Bold As Hell
Photos courtesy of Jon Butcher
When I’m not in full-blown public relations mode at my day job, I’m usually conferring with colleagues throughout the country about the bands and artists...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Rock’s Sultans Swing For The Fences ~ Dire Straits ‘Love...
Dire Straits photo courtesy John IIlsley
Dire Straits
Love Over Gold
Dire Straits has been eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2003. Fifteen years later, the...
