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Music Reviews: The Doors Live in Sweden in 1968, plus Gene Clark; Richard,...
Doors fans can’t go wrong by picking up Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm; September 20, 1968, a mesmerizing new two-CD or three-LP set. It documents the final night of a celebrated European tour, which...
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Music & Film Reviews: Graham Parker’s ‘Live at Rockpalast,’ Queen’s ‘Rock...
Graham Parker Concert DVDs Reissued with a Bonus English rocker Graham Parker’s Last Chance to Learn the Twist, which came out last year, was just the latest chapter in a distinguished career that has...
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Music Reviews: Joe Grushecky and a Rolling Stones tribute, plus Lynne Hanson,...
Joe Grushecky: Something Old, Something New Joe Grushecky, a household name in his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania hometown, has never achieved the sort of fame enjoyed by such similarly styled artists as...
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Music Reviews: Robert Earl Keen, Skeeter Davis with NRBQ, Damon Fowler, and...
Robert Earl Keen, Western Chill. One bit of good news for fans of Americana/folk singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen is that his retirement announcement early last year didn’t mean much more than—as...
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Music Reviews: David Bowie’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star!’ plus Late Slip, Dorsey...
An Anthology Chronicles the Creation of David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ LP A 2015 box set covering David Bowie’s early years included a remastered copy of his landmark 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of...
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Music Reviews: ‘I See You Live on Love Street: Music from Laurel Canyon,’...
California’s Laurel Canyon music scene still garners attention half a century after its heyday. In 2019, for example, Jakob Dylan and friends produced Echo in the Canyon, a terrific film documentary...
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Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘The Asylum Albums (1976–1980),’ plus Little...
A Box Set Collects Four Notable Joni Mitchell Albums The third in a series of box sets of Joni Mitchell’s studio LPs includes four trailblazing LPs: Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, Mingus, and...
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Music Reviews: A ‘Girl Group’ Anthology, Grateful Dead’s Expanded ‘From the...
A Joe Meek Anthology Unearths Some Gems The late rock and pop producer Joe Meek, who is widely regarded as England’s answer to Phil Spector, masterminded many British hits, such as the Cryin’ Shames’...
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Music Reviews: The Rascals’ ‘Complete Atlantic Recordings,’ Johnny Cash’s...
An Exhaustive Rascals Box Set Stevie Van Zandt heaped a ton of praise on the Rascals when he inducted them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. If you think he was being hyperbolic, you...
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Music Reviews: John Lennon’s Expanded ‘Mind Games,’ plus Iron Horse, ‘Silver...
‘Mind Games’ Under a Microscope So-called “ultimate” editions of John Lennon’s first two solo albums, 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and 1971’s Imagine, appeared in 2021 and 2018, respectively....
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Music Reviews: Dickey Betts, Amanda Anne Platt, Teni Rane, and an Anthology...
Dickey Betts, Live from the Lone Star Roadhouse New York City 1988. This recording preserves a January 1988 concert by rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dickey Betts, who died this past April....
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Music Reviews: Steve Young’s ‘Stars in the Southern Sky,’ plus Cat Stevens...
A 3-CD Set Features Country Rock Pioneer Steve Young Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Steve Young, who died in 2016, had a long and notable but mostly under-the-radar career. He never had a pop hit...
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Music Reviews: Lindsey Buckingham’s ‘20th Century Lindsey,’ plus Steve...
It’s not surprising that portions of Lindsey Buckingham’s solo albums could be mistaken for Fleetwood Mac records. For one thing, he contributed immeasurably to the best-known LPs by that group, which...
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Music Reviews: A Gerry and the Pacemakers Anthology, plus Ronnie Self, Duke...
A 25-track Gerry and the Pacemakers anthology from 1991 is subtitled The Definitive Collection, but that claim no longer applies because a new three-CD compendium delivers a whopping 98 numbers from...
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Music and Book Reviews: A Joe Meek Anthology, an Arthur Lee/Love Biography,...
A Joe Meek Anthology Focuses on 1962 Recordings Most music producers remain relatively unknown and must content themselves with credit lines on the CDs they oversee. A few, though, develop styles so...
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Music Reviews: Frank Zappa’s Expanded ‘Apostrophe (’),’ plus Mike Montrey...
Frank Zappa isn’t a name you’d ordinarily associate with hit-making, but this esoteric artist did occasionally flirt with commercial success, most notably on 1974’s Apostrophe (’). The album climbed...
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Music and Book Reviews: Continental Drifters, plus Phil Alvin, John Surge,...
The Continental Drifters are drifting into the spotlight more than two decades after they disbanded, thanks to a flurry of September releases. First came the 15-track White Noise & Lightning: The...
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Music Reviews: Bob Dylan & the Band’s ‘The 1974 Live Recordings,’ plus Dave...
Remember when a double album—two vinyl LPs, each with about 30 minutes of music—was a big deal? Those days are long gone. Not only have recent years witnessed a plethora of four-, five-, and six-CD...
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Music Reviews: Joni Mitchell’s ‘Archives, Vol. 4’ and Jelly Roll Morton’s...
Joni Mitchell’s Latest Trip to the Vaults Yields Treasures After years in the spotlight, some musicians release a one- or two-CD best-of collection or even a career-spanning box. Joni Mitchell has...
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Music & Film Reviews: Box Sets from Jimi Hendrix and Al Stewart, and More
A Celebration of Jimi Hendrix and His Electric Lady Studios Way back in 1982, in a review of an album of previously unavailable material called The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, this writer expressed...
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