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The Flamin’ Groovies: Now We’re Jumpin’ In The Night

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 2 Comments ” Ramones, A-Bones, Dead Boys, Flamin' Groovies, Jumpin' In The Night, MVD Audio, Now, Richard Hell, Talking Heads, The Flamin' Groovies, the New York Dolls, Yo La Tengo

The San Francisco garage rock legends kept the COVID summer alive in 2020 with a pair of essential reissues

Rock

Have A Good Time But…Get Out Alive! Turns 40

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 1980, Have A Good Time But...Get Out Alive!, Ian Hunter, Iron City Houserockers, Joe Grushecky, Mick Ronson, Steven Van Zandt

An exclusive interview with Joe Grushecky about the classic second album from Pittsburgh’s Iron City Houserockers

Progressive Rock

GUIDES: Gentle Giant’s First Four Albums

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 4 Comments Acquiring the Taste, Derek Shulman, Genesis, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Octopus, Phil Shulman, Ray Shulman, Reissues, Three Friends, Yes

When it comes to where to begin with these UK prog greats, read on

Rock Southern Rock

The Allman Brothers Band: A Half Century of Southern Solidarity

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Berry Oakley Jr, Black Cat Bones, Brownsville Station, Butch Trucks, Cactus, Canned Heat, Capricorn Records, Cream, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Fleetwood Mac (1967-1969), Gary Moore’s Skid Row, Gregg Allman, Humble Pie, Jamoie, Killing Floor, Leaf Hound, Nitzinger, Pot Liquor, Savoy Brown, Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack, Status Quo, Tear Gas, Ten Years After, the Groundhogs, Trouble No More, Vinegar Joe, Warren Haynes

A definitive new box set looks back at a career that defied the racial divide in America

Comedy Hard Rock Rock

Very Heavy, Not Very Humble

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 1 Comment 1970, Atlantic Records, David Lord Sutch, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Led Zeppelin, Lord Sutch, Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, Nicky Hopkins, Noel Redding

Looking back 50 years at Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends

Pop Rock Southern Rock

Before The Allman Brothers

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 1 Comment Allman Joys, Capricorn Records, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers Band, The Hour Glass

Into the past with Duane and Gregg through the reissue of four prefab titles

Records Rock

The Pretty Things Take A Final Bow

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Dick Taylor, Frank Holland, John Stax, Jon Povey, Led Zeppelin, Pete Tolson, Records, SF Sorrow, Skip Alan, Swan Song, The Final Bow, The Pretty Things, Vinyl, Wally Waller

Where to start when looking to dive into one of the most rewarding and unsung catalogs in British Rock

Folk Remembrance Rock

Buzzy Linhart Is, Was and Will Always Be Music

March 2, 2020March 4, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 5 Comments Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, Buzzy Linhart, Fred Neil, Jesse Colin Young, Mark Klingman, Max Ochs, raga-rock, RIP, Serge Katzen, The Divine Miss M, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Tim Hardin, You've Got to Have Friends

Remembering Buzzy, an unsung hero of the folk-rock connection who passed away February 13 at age 76

Records Rock

A Buyer’s Guide to The Pretty Things

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments

What to buy first when you’re acclimating yourself to the most underrated discography from The British Invasion era

Blues Heavy Metal jazz

Satan’s Coming ‘Round The Bend: Black Sabbath At 50

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 1970, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, The Warning, Tony Iommi, Warner Bros.

The Jazz! The Devil! The Downtuning! It was all part of the recipe for the LP that defined heavy metal

North Americana Remembrance

David Olney and the Poetry of Life and Death

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Austin City Limits, David Olney, David Olney and the X-Rayss, Nashville, RIP, Rounder Records, Townes Van Zandt, Waylon Jennings

Reflecting upon the career of this Nashville luminary, gone too soon at age 71, through an insightful 2007 interview

Soul

Stax’s Soul Aftershock

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 1 Comment Booker T. And the MG's, Booker T. Jones, David Porter, Delaney & Bonnie, Johnnie Taylor, Stax, Stax Records, Stax Soul Explosion, Steve Cropper, The Bar-Kays

Looking back at the legendary Memphis soul label’s mini-explosion

Blues

Dave Specter Explores The Blues From The Inside Out

January 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Blues From The Inside Out, Brother John Kattke, Dave Specter, Delmark Records, Howlin' Wolf, Jorma Kaukonen, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Sarah Marie Young

An exclusive chat with the modern day master of classic Chicago blues

Blues Psychedelics Rock

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: Revisiting the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969, B.B. King, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Bobby Blue BLand, Buddy Guy, Carey Bell, Freddie King, Hound Dog Taylor, Junior Wells, Lowell Fulson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Roosevelt Sykes, T-Bone Walker, Third Man Records

Third Man Records offers a definitive edition of the very first major festival dedicated entirely to the blues

Punk Retail

Celebrating 40 Years With The Clash’s London Calling Scrapbook

December 14, 2019December 19, 2019 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 1979, London Calling, The Clash, The London Calling Scrapbook

An inside look at an essential new perspective of the best punk rock album ever

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