Classic Albums

Following a band, or in this case a musician, for some 40 years teaches the inevitable acceptance of change.

Fusion is not a favorite word whether referring to music or food.

I attended a regional high school in Passaic County, NJ.

Dylan’s 29th studio album, World Gone Wrong was released in 1993 and finds Bob in his home/garage studio with an acoustic guitar and harmonica covering a collection of classic American folk/blues songs and as David Bowie said:

I like to imagine music, all recorded music, being as vast as the Atlantic.

There were a handful of cassettes at the ready in my painting studio back in college—Hank Williams Greatest Hits, Black Flag Damaged, and Sonny Rollins Freedom Suite.

Marry Me Tonight is the debut album from Australian band HTRK (pronounced ‘hate rock’) and it bears the stamp and sound of earlier Aussie bands including The Birthday Party which makes sense seeing as Roland S. Howard appears here as player and co-producer.

Author, composer and trumpeter Jacques Coursil held Ph.D.’s in linguistics and applied science and taught literature, linguistics, and the philosophy of language. A polymath.

I could live inside The Birthday Party and never grow old (or tired). Or so I like to imagine.

Is there anything cornier than sharing the fact that certain music makes us cry?

If I were to point to one album that was responsible for launching me out of the comfortable cocoon of my musical beginnings with Jimi, Dylan, and Neil, it would be the double LP compilation titled, The Great Blues Men.

I transferred to Bennington College from the School of Visual Arts as a philosophy major, which lasted all of two weeks before I switched back to fine art.

Culling a list of 100 favorite albums could be seen as an arduous task. But it wasn’t. By combining a look at my digital library in Roon sorted by “Most Played” and my memory of the LPs I love mostest, I put together this stream-of-consciousness […]