Music & Video Reviews: Badfinger’s Lost LP, plus Live Albums from Al Stewart, Translator, and Oregon Badfinger is best known for its first three albums, all from 1970 and 1971, and the Top 10 singles they spawned: “Come and Get It,” which Paul McCartney wrote and produced, “Day after Day,” which George Harrison produced, and […]
10 of the Best Albums and Box Sets of 2024 Picking the 10 best albums and box sets of the year would involve too much arbitrariness, so here are 10 of the best rather than the 10 best. They’re listed alphabetically by artist. Click on the performers’ names for information about them or the recording […]
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A Celebration of Jimi Hendrix and His Electric Lady Studios Way back in 1982, in a review of an album of previously unavailable material called The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, this writer expressed surprise that a dozen years after the guitarist’s death, “anything at all remains left to release.” In fact, that 1982 double-LP turned out […]
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Les Cousins (folk anthology), plus Steeleye Span Live and Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz Rock wasn’t the only kind of music that was exploding in the 1960s: a major folk and blues revival was underway on both sides of the Atlantic. In the States, many artists who championed these genres performed at famed clubs such […]
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