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 Album Divine ~ Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin’s ‘Love...

Photo by Ina McLaughlin Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin Love Devotion Surrender It doesn’t take more than five seconds of listening before you realize you’re hearing two guitar masters at the top...

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: 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: Treat It As A Good Thing – Jon Anderson...

Photo Courtesy of Stan Johnson Before Amazon entered my life, I was forced to hunt for hard-to-come-by CDs the old-fashioned way — in America’s many, many Goodwill stores. In one such...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Highly Strung ~ Hackett Revisited

Photos by Tina Korhonen Steve Hackett’s fingers should be in the Smithsonian — given all they’ve created since the opening lines of “The Musical Box” came wafting in to introduce Genesis’...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Sad-Eyed Sinatra ~ Rickie Lee Jones’ ‘Pirates’ Looks At 40

Select photos courtesy of Michael Halsband When Rickie Lee Jones set about making the follow-up to her smashing success of a debut album, she could have easily coasted with an...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “He Was Our Coach” (You Did Good)

Photos courtesy of Brad Long “It’s opening only in Indiana and it’s gonna open elsewhere in January, but I think they ought to open this one in New York and...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “AHORA!” (Carmen’s Celestial Masterwork)

Photo Courtesy of David Randall-Goddard Carmen Fandangos In Space A few years back, Rolling Stone published its list of the Top 50 prog rock albums of all-time, spanning multiple regions, degrees of...