Rosanne Cash – Black Cadillac (2006) purchase this album It’s about the attempt to connect the dots. It’s about how relationships go on even after a person dies. How when…
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Toto – Falling In Between (2006) purchase this album You know, I’ve written an awful lot of stuff here over the past few years. Some posts I sweat over and…
So. When last we left Robert Palmer, he was in the process of tricking out and slicking up his world-beat soul sound, sending his music in a more contemporary (and…
In homage to the band who penned the song from which this blog takes its name, we are making available the rough mixes of Cheap Trick’s 2003 studio re-recording of…
Welcome back to Wilbury Way, my fellow bootleggin’ fanatics, for our fond look back at Volume Three, A.K.A. the second Traveling Wilburys album. Actually, if you want to know the…
Paul Carrack – Groove Approved (1989)purchase this album There is a certain group of musicians whose names elicit knowing grins from music nerds, and quizzical shrugs from everybody else. They’re…
Allow me to get something off my chest first, if I may: Modern EnglishÁ¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“I Melt With YouÁ¢€ was not a hit back in the day. No matter how many…
The Subdudes – Behind the Levee (2006)purchase this album You know, I may just do a Subdudes Idiot’s Guide one of these days, so I’m going to hold off on…
Train – For Me, It’s You (2006)purchase this album Here’s something to make you feel old, Gen Xers: Train scored its first hit, “Meet Virginia,” in 1998. That was eight…
Shona Laing was fairly well known in her native New Zealand for years before finally scoring an American record deal in the late 80s with fledgling indie label TVT Records…
If it’s Friday, it must be Bootleg City…and today, our visit takes us right down Wilbury Way. You must remember The Traveling Wilburys — George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty,…
T’Pau – The Promise (1991)purchase this album They’re barely remembered today, at least outside the British club circuit, but T’Pau, in its brief existence as a major-label act, actually managed…
They once sang history never repeats. But the members of Split Enz today (Feb. 1) announced they are reuniting for an Australian arena tour in June, 22 years after they…
Richard Ashcroft – Keys to the World (2006) purchase this album Maybe I wasn’t listening to The Verve hard enough, but after “Bittersweet Symphony” came, went, and wound its way…
Duncan Sheik – White Limousine (2006) purchase this album You know, from “Barely Breathing” on down, I’ve never understood what people hear in Duncan Sheik’s music. It’s pleasant enough, in…
[Jefito’s Note: He doesn’t write them anymore, but truth be known, it was my good friend Benja who inspired the Idiot’s Guide series, via his impassioned, messy, and always entertaining…
Oh, Corey Hart. YouÁ¢€â„¢re trying so hard to say something meaningful and deep here, but weÁ¢€â„¢ll be damned if we know what youÁ¢€â„¢re on about. Is it about James Dean,…
Another Friday, another visit to that bustling metropolis we like to call Bootleg City Á¢€” and this week, as promised, here’s eighteen tracks of live Hüsker Dü. Supernova, recorded on…
Another Friday, another visit to that bustling metropolis we like to call Bootleg City — and this week, as promised, here’s eighteen tracks of live HÁ¼sker DÁ¼. Supernova, recorded on…
REO Speedwagon – The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog and A Chicken (1990) purchase this album Aside from a brief period in fifth grade — during which I was…
Some of you have waxed rhapsodic here about Michael Nesmith’s solo output; I haven’t listened to any of his other albums, but his latest, Rays, is available on iTunes as…
Morningwood – Morningwood (2006)purchase this album Morning wood — the kind that ZZ Top sang about — is good. Morningwood, the band? Not so much. First, I’ll say something nice…
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat (2006) purchase this album I have only a passing familiarity with Rilo Kiley and I’ve never seen The Wizard, so,…
[Jefito’s Note: Right around the end of 2005, I got an e-mail from reader Elaine, who volunteered to guest-blog a Thomas Dolby Guide. My initial reaction was probably similar to…
The year: 1989. The artist: Liza with a Á¢€Å“zÁ¢€. The idea: Bring Liza back into the present out of the standards ghetto sheÁ¢€â„¢d been reduced to by teaming her with…
You guys, Willie Wisely has a new record coming out on Not Lame very soon. They’re giving away a whole bunch of cool swag to folks who pre-order. Click here…
Today marks the four-year anniversary of one of the only intelligent decisions I’ve ever made, so in commemoration, here’s an unapologetically mush-filled collection of tunes that always make me think…
Say hello to CAPTAIN VIDEO! Doesn’t he look brave? CAPTAIN VIDEO! will periodically drop by to act as our guide through the Music Videos of the 1980s. You may have…
Today’s stop in Bootleg City takes us back to the Budokan of November 1979, and some cleanly recorded (albeit not revelatory, or even in some cases particularly wonderful) performances by…
Taking a break from the New Wave casualties of the Á¢€â„¢80s (and there are more to come), letÁ¢€â„¢s get something truly decent and sadly Lost in the Á¢€Ëœ80sÁ¢€¦former Undertones lead…