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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 44
The final installment of AM Gold: 1972 floats in on a summer breeze and gets really weird at the end
Read More »Mix Six: “The Moody Blues + 2″
Come my little children, and let's hear a tale of...um, The Moody Blues on this week's Mix Six!
Read More »50Prog50: The Best Prog Albums, Part Five
There’s been a lot of comments about this series and I want to thank everyone, even the folks who are incensed that I didn’t make The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway the #1 choice.
Read More »50Prog50: The Best Prog Albums, Part One
We love to mock prog rock, but Dw. Dunphy has made a list of 50 prog albums that deserve to be in your collection. Here's the first installment
Read More »CD Review: Bettye LaVette, “Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook”
I had never heard of Bettye LaVette until about four years ago. A friend had made me a mix CD to listen to on a road trip and on it he had included LaVette’s
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 6/26/09
Don’t just do something — stand there! Ben Folds Five – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head from Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night (1998) Big Star – When My Baby’s Beside Me from #1
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 6/19/09
You guys give up, or you thirsty for more? Bobby Jimmy & the Critters – Roaches from Look at All These Roaches [12"] (1986) Bread – The Guitar Man from Guitar Man (1972) George
Read More »Mix Six: “Melodic Prog”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Okay, I fully admit that as a guy who loves progressive rock, I’m setting myself up for ridicule and taunts from the peanut gallery. I hear you derisively yelling,Â
Read More »Basement Songs: The Moody Blues, “Nights in White Satin”
Have a seat. Sit back. Press play and let the music slip through your skin and into your mind. That yearning you feel from the melody, that longing for love, for answers, for peace?
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