Tag Archives: rock and roll

Stephen Stills’s Turnin’ Back the Pages

Posted on 3rd October 2024 by David Kidney

Stephen Stills peaked early. There were the Au Go Go Singers and The Continentals, but his first successful band was Buffalo Springfield. What talent was joined together for that little group of rock’n’rollers! Wacko guitarist-songwriter-humanitarian-toy-train-magnate Neil Young! Richie Furay of … Continue reading →

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The Pogues Red Roses For Me, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Peace & Love, Hell’s Ditch, Waiting for Herb, and Pogue Mahone

Posted on 26th June 2024 by Jack Merry

‘I’ve had a very, very happy life. If they stuck me in a box tomorrow I’d know I’ve had a bloody whale of a time. How many other people have made loads of money and done every drug under the … Continue reading →

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Black 47’s On Fire

Posted on 26th June 2024 by Gary Whitehouse

Mike Stiles wrote this review. Black 47 remains fronted by the peerless Larry Kirwan, who graces the earwaves with guitar when he’s not busy staging his eloquent vocals. The solid foundation of Thomas Hamlin (percussion) and Andrew Goodsight (bass, vocals) … Continue reading →

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Black 47’s Black ’47, Black ’47 EP, Fire Of Freedom, Green Suede Shoes, Home of the Brave, Live in New York City, and Trouble in the Land

Posted on 26th June 2024 by Jack Merry

Time magazine said of Black 47: “Finally. Rock ‘n’ roll that means something again!” Bullocks, I say. If Black 47 was just a rock ‘n’ roll band, I wouldn’t be doing a comprehensive review of their albums. Black 47 is … Continue reading →

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Bluehorses’ Dragons Milk and Coal

Posted on 26th June 2024 by Diverse Voices

Bluehorses are a five-piece band based in South Wales. They are comprised of Nic Waulker, drummer, songwriter, arranger and producer; Liz Prenderghast (“Liz), electric fiddle and effects; and Emma on traditional wood-bodied fiddle. Guitarist Martyn Standing plays everything from gentle … Continue reading →

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Deep Purple’s Book of Taliesyn

Posted on 20th June 2024 by Gary Whitehouse

I’ve written in a few other reviews of classic albums about the influence my older brother had on … not exactly my taste, but the albums that I heard in the late 1960s and early ’70s. This album, the sophomore … Continue reading →

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Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine, David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and The Man Who Sold The World

Posted on 31st May 2024 by Kimberlee Sweeney-Rettberg

I have seen Velvet Goldmine three times, and the last time I watched it, I asked if I could review it for GMR. When the two vintage Bowie CDs were thrown in, they swallowed the bait whole. So, out came … Continue reading →

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The Waterboys’ A Rock In The Weary Land

Posted on 22nd April 2024 by Diverse Voices

No’am Newman wrote this review. Oh No’am, I know you’re disappointed with this disc; I know that you were expecting The Waterboys of Whole Of The Moon and Fisherman’s Blues and instead you got something else. But it’s not my … Continue reading →

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Sam Cutler’s You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

Posted on 8th March 2024 by Deborah Grabien

Oh, and a storm is threatening my very life today … Once upon a time, back when Marin County, California, was still the home of the Grateful Dead, I helped manage a bookstore, Mandrake Books, in San Rafael. It was … Continue reading →

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Russell Smith’s Sunday Best: The Cream of the Solo Albums

Posted on 8th November 2023 by David Kidney

Russell Smith and I go way back. I first heard of Russell Smith on a 1974 Jesse Winchester album, when Winchester covered Smith’s hilarious and poignant “Third Rate Romance.” Later Smith’s own band, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, had a hit … Continue reading →

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