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Grateful Dead Here Comes Sunshine 1973 box contents

Music Reviews: Grateful Dead’s ‘Here Comes Sunshine 1973,’ plus Midnight Callers, Marv Johnson, and Mick Kolassa

July 9, 2023July 11, 2023Jeff Burger0

Grateful Dead’s Here Comes Sunshine 1973, plus Midnight Callers, Marv Johnson, and Mick Kolassa The Grateful Dead released three multi-disc concert LPs between 1969 and 1972 (Live/Dead, Grateful Dead, and Europe ’72), which seemed like a lot at the time. Today, though, those LPs represent just a tiny fraction of the group’s live-show discography. The […]

Ray Davies and the Kinks Muswell Hillbillies - Everybody's in Show-biz box cover

Music Reviews: The Kinks’ ‘Muswell Hillbillies/Everybody’s in Show-biz – Everybody’s a Star’ plus John McCutcheon, Collective Soul, Mick Kolassa, and Brian Lisik

September 11, 2022September 16, 2022Jeff Burger0

You may feel you can skip your daily weightlifting session on the day you lug home Muswell Hillbillies/Everybody’s in Show-biz – Everybody’s a Star, the eight-pound, 50th-anniversary edition of the Kinks’ first two albums for the RCA label. Delivering everything but group leader Ray Davies’s kitchen sink, the box set includes four CDs—one for each […]