Unless David Bowie returns to the land of the living (and anything’s possible where he’s concerned), a new box set will be the last in a series of massive compendiums devoted to phases of his career. The series began less than four months before his January 2016 death with Five Years [1969–1973]. Subsequently issued boxes […]
Album Reviews: Eric Andersen Dance of Love and Death, plus Cat Stevens and Wanda Jackson For whatever reason, folk singer/songwriter Eric Andersen is probably still best known for such self-penned classics as “Thirsty Boots,” “Close the Door Lightly When You Go,” and “Violets of Dawn,” all of which appeared on his 1966 sophomore album, ‘Bout […]
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A 3-CD Set Features Country Rock Pioneer Steve Young Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Steve Young, who died in 2016, had a long and notable but mostly under-the-radar career. He never had a pop hit and dented the country charts only once, with a 1976 album called Renegade Picker, which reached No. 48. He is remembered […]
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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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Lucinda Williams has recorded lots of country- and soul-flavored music over her four-decade career, but her heart has always been in rock, a fact she reaffirms on her effusive latest CD, her first collection of new material since 2020’s Good Souls Better Angels. Like that album, the just-released Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart […]
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After Fleetwood Mac unceremoniously ejected Lindsey Buckingham from the group in 2018, the chances that we’d ever again hear new music from the group’s classic lineup seemed remote. Now, following the recent death of Christine McVie, who joined the band way back in 1970, those chances have dropped to zero. At least there’s a […]
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Folk/pop singer/songwriter Cat Stevens famously walked away from the music business in 1978, but that wasn’t his first career turning point. (Nor was it his last; he has returned to making records in recent years.) The British artist—born Steven Georgiou and known as Yusuf Islam since his conversion to the Muslim faith—achieved some […]
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