LOW FLYING: BYRDS – the 1973 reunion album
BYRDS (1973): The original line-up reunite but fail to reignite through a disjointed 11-track collection offering little reminder of former glories.
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FIRST IMPRESSIVE – the 1972 debut album of Jackson Browne
JACKSON BROWNE (1972) With barely a word or note that sounds inconsequential, Browne creates high standards for himself and resets the bar for the singer-songwriter album.
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.
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.
PETTY SMASH – Tom Petty & ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ (1979):
On ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ (1979) producer Jimmy Iovine captures the true essence of Tom Petty & 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.