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Brown Sugar, How Come You Taste So Bad?

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 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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Your Cloak Full Of Eagles: Electric Warrior Turns 50

September 25, 2021October 7, 2021 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 Only I Could Remember My Name Gets The Deluxe Edition It Deserves

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 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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Above Us Only Sky: Imagine at 50

September 9, 2021September 21, 2021 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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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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Ram On!: Paul McCartney’s ‘Ram’ at 50

August 4, 2021August 25, 2021 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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Another Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren at 50

July 9, 2021August 4, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1971, Bearsville Records, Hunt Sales, Runt, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Tony Sales Jr., Woodstock

Why Todd’s most obscure ’70s album remains one of his very best

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adblock Records Rock

Still Sticky After All These Years

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, Bill Wyman, Billy Preston, Brown Sugar, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards. Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Nicky Hopkins, Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, Sway, Wild Horses

Celebrating a half century of Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones

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They Locked Up The Wrong Man

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Avalanche, Hallelujah, Isle of Wight, Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate

Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Love and Hate at 50

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Way Over Yonder: Tapestry Turns 50

February 10, 2021April 6, 2021 Robert Baird 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, AM, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, I Feel The Earth Move, Natural Woman, Ode, Tapestry

What makes this Carole King classic such a transcendent artifact in the world of popular music?

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The Tale of Telemachus, the Tapestry Cat

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Ron Hart 5 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, album, Carole King, cats, Jim McCrary, Tapestry, Telemachus

Curiosity got the best of me when I went digging deeper to find out more about Carole King’s kitty companion on the cover of her iconic 1971 solo LP, which turns 50 today

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Blues Rock Soul

Janis Joplin: A Pearl Of A Girl

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1970, 1971, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Bobby Womack, Brad Campbell, Clark Pierson, Janis Joplin, John Till, Ken Pearson, Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee, Mercedes Benz, Mike McClure, Pearl, Richard Bell

Pearl was supposed to be the 60s rock icon’s triumph; instead, it became her epitaph

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Close Encounters of the Rock Star Variety

August 13, 2018 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1971, Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Small Faces, The Faces

Meeting Rod Stewart becomes both a blunder and a blast

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