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The Popdose Podcast: Episode 13

Dave Lifton October 1, 2010 4

What happens when pop culture forces collide, and why do they almost always suck? Matt Wardlaw, Michael Parr, and Dave Lifton discuss it on the Popdose Podcast!

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CD Review: Eric Clapton, “Clapton”

Michael Fortes September 28, 2010 4

Granny pop standards? Dixieland jazz? What was Eric thinking? Think what you will, but the results of Clapton's latest solo album just might surprise you

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CD Review: Delaney & Bonnie, “On Tour With Eric Clapton” (Deluxe Edition)

Matt Wardlaw September 13, 2010 7

By the time On Tour with Eric Clapton was released in 1970, the husband/wife pairing of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett could loosely be placed in the category of “seasoned veterans” within the music industry,

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Popdose Flashback ’90: The Vaughan Brothers, “Family Style”

Michael Fortes August 27, 2010 0

On the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's death, Michael Fortes revisits the Texas guitar master's swan song: a collaboration with brother Jimmie Vaughan

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Cratedigger: Jeff Beck, “Truth”

Ken Shane August 7, 2010 3

Jeff Beck’s sister was responsible for a nice chunk of rock and roll history when she fortuitously introduced him to another young guitarist named Jimmy Page. When Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965,

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Listmania: Top 50 Guitarists (#10-1)

Popdose Staff July 30, 2010 43

We made a list of our favorite guitarists of all time, and this week we count down the final 10. Who's number 1? You'll have to click to find out

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Cratedigger: The Wailers, “Burnin’”

Ken Shane July 24, 2010 0

Like many Americans, my first encounter with reggae came via Eric Clapton’s cover of “I Shot the Sheriff,” which was on his 1974 album 461 Ocean Boulevard. Clapton deserves praise for bringing this music

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Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 9

Dave Steed July 14, 2010 18

We’ve got a ton more from the letter C this week, as we take a look at the songs that hit the rock charts in the ’80s but never crossed over to the Billboard

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Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 7

Dave Steed June 30, 2010 22

So, I took at least an inital recommendation last week to listen to some Blue Oyster Cult and spun the record the vast majority said to listen to – Mirrors.  The whole first half

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Ticket Stub: Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Wheeling, November ’77

Matt Wardlaw April 8, 2010 3

For those of you that read my Ticket Stub piece last week regarding Michael Bolton, I should tell you that good portions of that were nothing more than an April Fool’s joke.  I think

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