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Music & Film Reviews: Elvis Presley’s “Aloha from Hawaii,” plus a Ray Davies Tribute, Two Rockabilly Anthologies, Melanie, and More New Releases

August 13, 2023August 12, 2023Jeff Burger0

Elvis Presley’s “Aloha from Hawaii,” plus a Ray Davies Tribute, Two Rockabilly Anthologies, Melanie, and More New Releases Elvis Presley’s return to prominence after a multi-year slump began with a December 1968 TV special and arguably culminated in January 1973 with another television event: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite, a concert that aired live in […]

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 […]