REVOLUTION-CONVOLUTION-EVOLUTION: Twenty Great Albums of 1968
Twenty Great Albums of 1968: Small Faces – OGDEN’S NUT GONE FLAKE: A fast moving feast of rock, layered pop, surrealism and Cockney revelry.
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GRAM FINALE – Gram Parsons & ‘GRIEVOUS ANGEL’
There is an acute sense of finality attached to ‘GRIEVOUS ANGEL’ – an album affirming his genius, occasionally flawed, always engaging, often deeply moving.
NEED TO KNOW – Poco & ‘A GOOD FEELIN’ TO KNOW’
With ‘Sweet Lovin’ Poco create a rare example of country-prog – sounding more Pink Floyd than Gram Parsons.
Named and Blamed: David Crosby & ‘REMEMBER MY NAME’ (documentary review)
Crosby expresses regret at time lost to addictions and friendships now in the past, stating: ‘All the main guys I made music with, McGuinn, Nash, Stephen, Neil, dislike me.’
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ – ‘ECHO IN THE CANYON’ has good reverberations……..
‘ECHO in the CANYON’ is a love letter to the audacious new music that seeped out of LA during the mid-60s.
WHOA TOM PETTY – TORPEDOES BE DAMNED….
On ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ producer Jimmy Iovine captures the true essence of TP & the Heartbreakers.
COVERED OVER: Twelve Cover/Tribute albums that soar – or bore…….
All Covered Up: JENNIFER WARNES (Famous Blue Raincoat) – Warnes attuned to Leonard Cohen in the way Sinatra was to Cole Porter.
SOARING & DIPPING – The Flight of THE BYRDS…..
‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ as important to 1968 as ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ had been to 1965.
THE BEATLES: 50 years gone, 100 per cent still with us……
Along with Bob Dylan they opened up an awareness of attitudes that without them might have lay stifled for years.
YOUNG ASSOCIATES – Fifty years ago Neil teams up with CSN for ‘Deja Vu’…..
Parts of ‘Deja Vu’ are good,’ reflected Neil Young, ‘but they’re the parts I’m not on.’
