The Drifters Archives • Americana Highways

Music Reviews: ‘The JFK Inauguration Hot 100: 20th January 1961,’ plus Mike Zito, Vanessa Peters, and Lance Cowan

February 25, 2024February 28, 2024Jeff Burger0

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 […]

Music & Film Reviews: Early Rockers Darlene Love, Dion, Clyde McPhatter, & Charlie Feathers

April 16, 2023April 18, 2023Jeff Burger0

Early Rockers Darlene Love, Dion, Clyde McPhatter, & Charlie Feathers This month has witnessed the rerelease of music from four important voices from rock’s early days. Let’s start with Darlene Love, whose Live 1982—a vinyl album from 1985—just debuted on CD and standard-definition DVD. Love, one of Phil Spector’s greatest vocalists, was a one-woman hit […]