Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Belew’s Bear Necessities
Photo above courtesy of Rob Fetters
Take a second and think about some of the music legends you admire. Chances are, you could easily play a game called “Six Degrees...
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...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “Touch The Sun And Run” ~ The Association Go To...
Photos courtesy of Russ Giguere
Every Sunday night when I was growing up meant movie night with my father. Usually my sister and I would pick from a round robin...
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: ‘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 Sweet Green Icing Of Success ~ In Defense Of...
Photo by Henry Diltz
"You don’t mean to suggest that someone
would criticize ('MacArthur Park')?
I mean, my God! (laughter)"
– Jimmy Webb, March 2018
Based on its compositional structure alone, “MacArthur Park” should...
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: Still Alive ~ Baby, Just Take Another Look (At Clover)
Photos courtesy of Alex Call
In 1977, right before punk becomes the zeitgeist musical movement in the UK and the states, a Bay Area-based six-piece band took one last mighty...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Voice (‘Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny’)
Black & white photos by Richard Avedon
Johnny Mathis didn’t need to come from a rock and R&B background to become one of the coolest entertainers ever.
Give a think as...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: 10cc Attains High Art (For Art’s Sake)
Photos courtesy of Glass Onion PR
Reflect back on the great 1970s British bands and you’ll see 10cc more than measures up to their competition.
Equal parts irreverent and intellectual, the...
