Album Reviews
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To honor the 60th anniversary of “The Day The Music Died,” German label Bear Family compiled a thorough and compelling scrapbook that encompasses and highlights of the talents lost that day, performers who appeared on the tour, musical tributes to the victims, and an in-depth booklet with super-rare photos and historical background of that fateful… Read more
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Chicory Tip was a short-lived group who had a brief but prolific career, cumulating in a wonderful hit single written by a pre-fame Giorgio Moroder. Unfortunately, there’s a cautionary tale attached to this promising young band as well. Read more
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Chicory Tip was a short-lived group who had a brief but prolific career, cumulating in a wonderful hit single written by a pre-fame Giorgio Moroder. Unfortunately, there’s a cautionary tale attached to this promising young band as well. Read more
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The third and final installment of Omnivore Recordings’ documenting of Country singer Buck Owens’ prolific output for Capitol Records finds the singer exploring different sounds in a recording career that was taking second place to television stardom, and would come to a sudden end with the death of his musical partner and best friend. Though… Read more
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The third and final installment of Omnivore Recordings’ documenting of Country singer Buck Owens’ prolific output for Capitol Records finds the singer exploring different sounds in a recording career that was taking second place to television stardom, and would come to a sudden end with the death of his musical partner and best friend. Though… Read more
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The latest in a series of excursions into the legendarily prolific Prince offers up a compelling theme: fifteen songs Prince gave to friends and his protégées. Even though the ubiquity of some of the hits casts a bit of a shadow on Prince’s versions, on the whole this is an interesting look into his talent. Read more
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The latest in a series of excursions into the legendarily prolific Prince offers up a compelling theme: fifteen songs Prince gave to friends and his protégées. Even though the ubiquity of some of the hits casts a bit of a shadow on Prince’s versions, on the whole this is an interesting look into his talent. Read more
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Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery’s recording career was tragically cut short, thanks to his sudden death less than a decade after releasing his first solo album. This new two-disc set captures Montgomery and a host of musicians in various arrangements several years before he released his debut, and it’s a collection of a young talent in… Read more
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