Miles Davis -Classic Albums

Music Reviews: Miles Davis, Bobby Sutliff, Mac Wiseman, Clarence White, Shadwick Wilde, and the Sextones

Miles Davis, The Classic Albums Collection. This four-CD set, which lists for about what you’d typically pay for one disc, packs in nine superlative albums and more than five hours of music from jazz great Miles Davis, all originally issued between 1953 and 1960: two excellent LPs that are both called Volume 2, plus the […]

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Fleetwood Mac -Rumours Live

Music Reviews: Fleetwood Mac ‘Rumours Live,’ Willie Nelson’s ‘Bluegrass,’ Genya Ravan’s Reissues, and More New Releases

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours Live in 1977 Fleetwood Mac was flying high when it began a three-night stand at the Forum in Los Angeles in August 1977. Its chart-topping eponymous 1975 album had catapulted the group to superstar status and its follow-up, Rumours, was already a No. 1 international smash that would go on to sell more […]

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Doors-Live at the Matrix

Music Reviews: The Doors’ ‘Live at the Matrix,’ plus Graham Parker, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, and Popa Chubby

By March of 1967, the Doors had been in existence for the better part of two years and their eponymous debut album had been out for two months. But the record—which would ultimately spend more than two years on Billboard’s Hot 100, peaking at No. 2—still hadn’t charted. Moreover, the release of their big No. […]

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Relentless

Music Reviews: The Pretenders’ ‘Relentless,’ plus Wild Rabbit Salad, Crowes Pasture, Torben Westergaard, and Johnny Rawls

Relentless is the first new Pretenders album in three years, following 2020’s Hate for Sale, and it’s just the fifth collection of fresh material from the group to arrive in this century. That’s a bit misleading, though, since Pretenders prime mover Chrissie Hynde has also released three ostensible solo CDs over that period, most recently […]

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David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Music & Film Reviews: David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture” (50th-Anniversary Ed.), plus John Mellencamp and More

Music & Film Reviews: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (50th-Anniversary ed.), plus John Mellencamp and More Anyone who doubted early on that David Bowie was on the road to superstardom probably hadn’t witnessed his July 3, 1973, show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. It’s notable not just because he […]

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Elvis Presley Aloha Cover

Music & Film Reviews: Elvis Presley’s “Aloha from Hawaii,” plus a Ray Davies Tribute, Two Rockabilly Anthologies, Melanie, and More New Releases

Elvis Presley’s “Aloha from Hawaii,” plus a Ray Davies Tribute, Two Rockabilly Anthologies, Melanie, and More New Releases Elvis Presley’s return to prominence after a multi-year slump began with a December 1968 TV special and arguably culminated in January 1973 with another television event: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite, a concert that aired live in […]

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Eric Clapton in Delbert McClinton review

Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s “The Definitive 24 Nights,” plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton

Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s The Definitive 24 Nights, plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton Eric Clapton’s 24 Nights, which appeared in 1991, culled 15 superlative performances from a series of concerts that year and in 1990 at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, where he has appeared more than 200 times. The […]

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Let's Stomp: Merseybeat

Music Reviews: ‘Let’s Stomp!,’ a Merseybeat Anthology, plus Nils Lofgren, Johnny Winter, Kentucky Colonels, and Daryl Mosley

As you know if you’ve read Tune In, Mark Lewisohn’s peerless history of the Beatles’ pre-fame years, the Fab Four were hardly the only musicians blazing new trails in and around Liverpool in the U.K. in the early 1960s. Hundreds of groups were vying for fame while creating the genre that came to be called […]

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