Mike Zito Outside Or The Eastside Fresh off a shiny 2025 Blues Music Award for Blues Rock Album of the Year (for Life Is Hard), Mike Zito does the rock-blues equivalent of a victory lap with Outside Or The Eastside, his fourth solo record. He’s in full control here—frontman, guitarist, and producer. The cast is […]
Music Reviews: ‘The JFK Inauguration: Hot 100 5th August 1957,’ plus Mike Zito, Vanessa Peters, and Lance Cowan According to conventional wisdom, rock experienced a fallow period from around the time we lost Buddy Holly in January 1959—“the day the music died,” according to Don McLean’s “American Pie”—until Bob Dylan and the Beatles caught on […]
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When it first appeared in 1979, Bob Dylan’s Live at Budokan garnered mixed reviews. It did go gold and receive some praise, particularly in Europe, but many listeners derided its radical rearrangements of classic material as well as its use of backup singers and brassy, big-band instrumentation. Dylan may have been in Japan, but it […]
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