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1971

Hard Rock Rock 

Aerosmith: Hear In The Past

April 26, 2022 Justin Cober-Lake 0 Comments 1971, Aerosmith, Brad Whitford, Dream On, Joe Perry, Joey Kramer, Steven Tyler, The Road Starts Hear, Todd Hamilton

A recently unearthed early session tape kicks off a potentially fruitful archive series for the Boston rock legends

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Fusion jazz Rock 

I’ll Never Let Them Forget It: Celebrating A Tribute to Jack Johnson

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1971, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea, Columbia Records, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Michael Henderson, Miles Davis, Sonny Sharrock, Steve Grossman

Remembering the time when Miles Davis assembled “the greatest rock and roll band you have ever heard”

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Folk jazz 

Joni Mitchell’s Archives: Digging the Roots of a Living Legend

December 22, 2021April 3, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1971, 2021, Archives, Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971), Blue, Box sets, Canada, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Ottowa, Song For A Seagull

Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) traces the development of her seminal songs

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Glam Rock 

Turn and Face the Strange: Hunky Dory at 50

December 17, 2021April 3, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bowie, Changes, David Bowie, Hunky Dory, Kooks, Life On Mars?, Queen Bitch, Ziggy Stardust

Time will never change our love for David Bowie’s fourth album

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Britpop Power Pop Rock 

Take An Inch, Take A Yard: 50 Years of Badfinger’s Straight Up

December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1971, Baby Blue, Badfinger, Geoff Emerick, George Harrison, Joey Molland, Mal Evans, Paul McCartney, Pete Ham, Stan Polley, Straight Up, The Beatles

How Apple Records’ other big band made an album that still resonates five decades later

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Blues Rock 

Any Day Woman: 50 Years of Bonnie Raitt

December 12, 2021April 3, 2022 Christopher Treacy 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Little Feat, Lowell George

With her eponymous 1971 debut, the California-born guitar legend was disrupting the template the others were establishing from the very start

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Pop Rock 

What If I’m Late: Nilsson Schmilsson at 50

November 30, 2021April 3, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Barbra Streisand, Goodfellas, Gordon Lightfoot, Gotta Get Up, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Jump Into The Fire, Laura Nyro, Nilsson Schmilsson. Richard Perry, Randy Newman, Robert Altman, Russian Doll, The Beatles, Without You

In 1971, Harry Nilsson let the good times roll and made his greatest album

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Music Journalism Stones 

Brown Sugar, How Come You Taste So Bad?

October 20, 2021December 28, 2022 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 1971, Bill Wyman, Brown Sugar, Charlie Watts, controversy, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, racism, slavery, Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones

Assessing why the Stones cut their controversial 50-year-old hit single from the set list of the band’s current tour

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Folk Glam Rock 

Your Cloak Full Of Eagles: Electric Warrior Turns 50

September 25, 2021April 3, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Bang A Gong (Get It On), Bill Legend, Electric Warrior, Jeepster, Marc Bolan, Mickey Finn, New York Dolls, Rocky Horror, Steve Currie, T.Rex, the Bay City Rollers, The Jam, Ziggy Stardust

How Marc Bolan plugged in T.Rex and invented glam rock

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Country and/or Western Folk Psychedelics Rock 

If I Could Only Remember My Name Gets The Deluxe Edition It Deserves

September 14, 2021January 19, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, Atlantic, David Crosby, Graham Nash, If Only I Could Remember My Name, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Rhino Records, Santana, The Grateful Dead

David Crosby’s solo debut revisited on 2-CD set featuring newly remastered audio and bonus material

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Beatle 

Above Us Only Sky: Imagine at 50

September 9, 2021March 29, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Crippled Inside, George Harrison, GIMME SOME TRUTH, Imagine, Jealous Guy, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Plastic Ono Band, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

A half century later, John Lennon’s second solo LP still stands as a towering testament to his artistry beyond The Beatles

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Pop 

ARCHIVES: The Real Feels (And Flows) Of The Beach Boys

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 David Bash 8 Comments “Sunflower”, 1970, 1971, Blondie Chaplin, Box sets, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Feel Flows, Mike Love, Surf's Up, The Beach Boys, The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971

Inside the exquisite, better-than-perfect The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971

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Country and/or Western Folk North Americana Rock 

Sitting Silently At Will: Gene Clark’s White Light at 50

August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 1971, 50th anniversary, Gene Clark, Steve Young, The Byrds, The Dillards, The Flying Burrito Brothers, White Light

The first true solo LP from the former Byrd found him lowly lit but still flying high 

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Beatle 

Ram On!: Paul McCartney’s ‘Ram’ at 50

August 4, 2021March 28, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 1 Comment 1971, 50th anniversary, Capitol 1971, Capitol Records, Linda McCartney, Paul and Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney, Ram

Why Macca’s first collaboration with his wife Linda still resonates a half-century later despite once being called the worst thing he’s ever done

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Funk Psychedelics Rock Soul 

The Odyssey of Funkadelic and Eddie Hazel

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Jason Gross 0 Comments 1971, Bernie Worrell, Eddie Hazel, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Jimi Hendrix, Maggot Brain, Mike Watt, P-Funk, Parliament-Funkadelic, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ween

Released 50 years ago, Maggot Brain gave a psychedelic groove to psychic pain

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