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 […]
Music & Book Reviews: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt Blake, Pete Ham, and Eddie Hinton This column rarely covers EPs—the unending flood of full-length CDs is more than enough to keep a critic busy—but a six-song set called Wonder Women of Country: Willis, Carper, Leigh is too good to ignore. The Texas-based […]
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Music Reviews: Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Catch a Fire Revisited and a Power Pop Anthology, plus Van Duren and John Vincent III An Expanded Edition of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ ‘Catch a Fire’ Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Catch a Fire is aptly named because it helped the reggae giant’s music catch fire […]
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