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Midweek Music Moment: Déjà Vu, CSN&Y

Memory is a funny thing. I struggle to recall events my friends, wife and kids remember vividly. Names continually elude me. But what really puzzles me is the relatively mundane — even inane — things that I clearly recall.

A perfect example is Déjà Vu, the album released on March 11, 1970, by Crosby, Stills, […]

Midweek Music Moment: Pearl, Janis Joplin

February 1971 may have been the commercial peak for Janis Joplin. Her LP, Pearl, hit the stores the first week of the month. By February 27, it was the number one record in the country. But Joplin wasn’t there to see the success. On October 4, 1970, she’d died of a heroin overdose.

Joplin was […]

Midweek Music Moment: Before the Flood, Bob Dylan and The Band

He hadn’t toured since the spring of 1966. And when he did it was with The Hawks, who would become The Band. So when Bob Dylan and The Band joined forces for a short North American tour in January and February 1974, it was big news. More than 650,000 tickets were sold for the 40 […]

Midweek Music Moment: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic

To a certain extent, Traffic reflected the the interband traffic that went on in British rock music in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Formed in 1967 by guitarist Dave Mason, drummer Jim Capaldi, woodwind player Chris Wood and you-name-it-he-can-play-it Steve Winwood, the band would see Mason come and go over the next few years […]

Midweek Music Moment: Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder

If any one artist ruled the mid-1970s, it was Stevie Wonder. He moved from “Little Stevie Wonder” to one of the world’s most talented and bestselling musicians. It wasn’t by chance. His talent produced a string of superb albums: Talking Book (1972), Innervisions (1973), Fulfillingness’ First Finale (1974) and 1976’s Songs in the Key of […]