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Bruce Springsteen has confirmed that a new album, Working on a Dream, is set for released on January 27, one week after Barack Obama’s inauguration. As I noted before, Springsteen debuted the title song at a Nov. 2 Obama rally in Cleveland and dedicated it to Obama. It also comes just five days before Bruce […]
Technically, this album is just called Santana. It became known as Santana III because it was the band’s third album but their first LP was also called Santana.
Santana III reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in the magazine’s Nov. 13, 1971, issue. Even though I have an autographed copy of the album […]
Recently, I’ve found myself listening almost incessantly to certain albums from the late ’60s and early ’70s. The “rediscovery” of this music leads to what I hope will become a weekly installment on the blog.
The focus largely will be on older albums for which the dates of the current week were important in […]
I stopped in the local Best Buy Thursday to pick up a couple CDs and two things caught my attention.
First, I see Best Buy is stocking vinyl LPs. That’s right, the things I grew up listening to. Now perhaps vinyl has made some technological advances over the last 35 years and these are undoubtedly […]
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today and Bob Dylan nabbed one. Not for a particular book for a piece of music. Instead, he was given a special citation “for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” I’m sure Dylan could really care less but it’s […]
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