In honor of Blue Rodeo’s U.S. jaunt happening this week, I’ve decided to celebrate with Blue Rodeo Week. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Day One: T is for The Days in Between Day Two: What am I doing here? Day Three: Five from Greg Keelor Day Four: Five from Jim Cuddy Day Five: Six […]
Category: Albums Revisited
Quick Hits – Jayhawks/Golden Smog, The Replacements, GNR, Ben Folds, hear new tracks from Oasis and more
Greetings from Cleveland! Foreigner at House of Blues is next up on the concert agenda, tomorrow night. Setlist and a brief report will come early next week! We’ll start with a not-so-quick hit: Jayhawks fans, get happy – there are two Jayhawks-related releases coming out in September! And if you live in Spain, September 4th […]
Celebrating 30 years of The Stranger by Billy Joel
“All summer, I was just taking in a lot of things – friends who would be splitting up, and others who would be getting together. The reason I called the album The Stranger wasn’t just because of the song. Each song on it seemed to have some kind of strangeness, some kind of alienation about […]
If all else fails, you can blame it on me….
Barenaked Ladies – Gordon (original cover artwork) For the past few weeks, I’ve been jonesing to hear “Brian Wilson” by Barenaked Ladies, specifically the live version that appears on Rock Spectacle. In one of my rare excursions driving a car, I took the CD with me, popped it in the player, and it wouldn’t play. […]
T-Ride, I forgot all about you!
Thanks to my retro 80s loving pal Corey, I thought of T-Ride today. You haven’t heard of T-Ride…..what? Wikipedia describes T-Ride as being noted for its wildly complex instrument and vocal arrangements. That’s funny, because I wasn’t aware that ANYONE besides Corey, myself, and perhaps maybe the people that saw them opening for Joe Satriani […]
Albums Revisited – Bryan Adams – Reckless
Bryan Adams – Can’t Stop This Thing We Started Happy tax day to all of you! I was listening to the Waking Up The Neighbours album from Bryan Adams, yesterday morning, which was really the last great album from BA. It would be the last album for a long time, to feature longtime Adams collaborator […]
Albums Revisited – Bonnie Raitt – Road Tested
Sorry I’ve been absent from class lately. Life got busy. But now, here I am, so let’s get into it. Friday’s musical moment finds me listening in the waking hours (for me between 6am and 8am) to Bonnie Raitt’s double live album “Road Tested.” Road Tested is one of the finest and most accurate live […]
Albums Revisited – The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing
The above live version of Dry County from the Cosmic Thing album is proof positive that you can find ANYTHING on Youtube. As I was about to begin this entry, I began to wonder if The B-52’s had ever done Dry County live? Seeing this video on Youtube makes me grateful for Youtube, and at […]