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I’m not a huge fan of blues music. Although I recognize its influence, it tends to strike me as somewhat formulaic and predictable. There are exceptions, though, and fairly close to the top of that list would be Cricklewood Green, a 1970 release by Ten Years After. While I don’t remember how it ended up [...]            Tim March 8th, 2013 | Tags: 1970s, Alvin Lee, Music, rock, Woodstock | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostIt’s been a long time since I’ve done a Midweek Music Moment but I’m going to try and do them again, although I know there will not be weekly installments like before. What triggers this is seeing that Welcome To Goose Creek by Goose Creek Symphony was released this week in 1971. I probably [...] Tim March 6th, 2013 | Tags: bluegrass, Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostLike perhaps most everyone, occasionally something strikes you that makes you think about those three or five people, dead or alive, you would invite to dinner if your could. Now anyone who reads this blog might well think that Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are on the “must invite” list. To be honest, though, I [...] Tim November 2nd, 2012 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, Bruce Springsteen, Music, nonfiction, Review Copy, rock | Category: Book Reviews, Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’ve never investigated if publishers push autobiographies and memoirs to a particular time of year. All I know is they’ve dominated my reading lately. Four of the last five books I’ve read (and five of the last eight) are autobiographies/memoirs. (Who decides when a work crosses the line between autobiography and memoir?) All four [...] Tim October 17th, 2012 | Tags: Book Reviews, Damien Echols, memoir, Music, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, reading, rock, Salman Rushdie | Category: A Reading Life, Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostAlthough many may consider it a less important symbol than the dollar sign, never underestimate the power of the asterisk. Jon Glaser certainly doesn’t. After being estranged for years, Glaser was going through his father’s belongings following his death when he stumbled across rock and roll history.* He learned his father was a member of [...] Tim February 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Book Reviews, classic rock, humor, Review Copy, rock | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostSomething that had been in the back a my mind for a while really started to sink in with last week’s announcement of the Grammy nominees — age is not only staring me in the face, it is slapping it. Ever since this blog started, I’ve had an annual post on my record of the [...] Tim December 6th, 2010 | Tags: jazz, Music, rock | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWe all have guilty pleasures — music, books or movies that we’re a bit abashed to admit we enjoy. For me, one of those is Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. As the title suggests, the album is the follow-up to Meat Loaf’s first solo album, 1977′s Bat Out of Hell, [...] Tim September 15th, 2010 | Tags: Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’m going to offer up another exhibit on RIAA’s shortsightedness on the original Napster. The first song or songs I heard from Everclear’s Songs From an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning to Smile, released 10 years ago this week, were Napster downloads. I’d not heard anything by the band before I came across a couple [...] Tim July 14th, 2010 | Tags: Everclear, Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostSo the opening tune on a CD makes clear it’s a guitar band that knows how to use power chords. You grab the CD box to see who’s playing what and something jumps out at you — electric banjo. What? A pop rock band with an electric banjo? Well, that’s just part of the eclectic [...] Tim July 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock, The Uninvited | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSo is it the quality of the songs or the fact John Lennon was murdered three weeks after Double Fantasy was released that makes it special? There’s a lot of good things to say about Double Fantasy. But there’s an equal amount of bad, with bad spelled Y-o-k-o O-n-o. While you don’t criticize a friend [...] Tim November 19th, 2008 | Tags: Beatles, John Lennon, Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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