I never got into Poco. Which is very, very strange, as on paper they are a perfect group for me. I’m a huge fan of Buffalo Springfield, The Eagles, The Flying Burrito Brothers, CSNY, The Byrds, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons… well, you get the picture. I really l like the two Souther, Hillman, Furay albums released in the mid 70s. But, Poco, they just never did it for … [more]
Archive for May, 2008
A Place To Land
Living in Nashville I had of course heard of Little Big Town. They put out a self-titled album on Monument in 2002 which went nowhere. But then they struck gold (and platinum) and had amazing success with their second album (The Road To Here), and on an independent label (Equity Music Group) no less. That’s not an easy thing to do in Nashville, though times do seem to be changing. … [more]
The Preflyte Sessions
The Byrds early material has been mined over and over again. It first began with Never Before, a great collection of unreleased outtakes and alternate versions first released in 1989. (Well, I guess it actually began with the original release of Preflyte in 1969, an attempt to capitalize on their mid-60s success.) Since then an amazing amount of unreleased material has seen the light of day including Live At The … [more]
Solo Acoustic Vol. 2
Jackson Browne is one of the only artists to ever release a live album of completely “new” material, Running On Empty. The most famous other example is Neil Young’s Time Fades Away (still not available on CD!). Emmylou Harris did something almost the same with Last Date (the songs weren’t “new” though she had not recorded them before). Most artists take the opportunity to release live albums as a kind … [more]
If I Could Only Remember My Name….
It took a long time for this album to reveal itself to me. More than 30 years. I’ve always been a very big CSNY fan. And a big fan of all the various incarnations and solo careers. The first concert I ever saw was Stephen Stills at the LA Forum. I think it was 1971. Neil Young is one of my all time favorite artists. In addition to Crosby, Stills … [more]
Izitso
Cat Stevens was one of the first “singer-songwriters” I fell in love with. Tea For The Tillerman was an important album for me. I listened to it a lot when it was first released. I saw Stevens at the Greek Theatre in November 1971. I remember Tom Jans and Mimi Farina opened the show. (Tom Jans is one of the great unheard singer-songwriters of the 70s. I’ll blog one of … [more]
Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road was never my favorite early period Steve Earle album. With Steve, I, like many others, tend to divide his recorded output into pre-jail/post-jail. Of the five albums he released before getting clean, I’d have to go with Guitar Town and then Exit 0. The Hard Way and Shut Up And Die Like An Aviator almost never get any listens from me these days. I can understand why Universal … [more]
Tommy
I came to Tommy rather late in the game. I don’t know why. Just too many other things got in the way. Who’s Next was always my favorite Who album. I remember listening to it’s debut on FM radio when I was in High School. I was at my girlfriend’s house in Palmdale, California late one night and they played the entire album from start to finish. I connected with … [more]
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