Plain and Fancy

Blue Jug (from Seattle by way of Nashville) and First albums are rarely as impressive as this one, and now I wonder if I've overstated t...

With antagonistic artwork - a pastiche of a Chinese propaganda poster - Little Red Record was a different album in many respects. For starte...

On 1976's "IF THE SHOE FITS" features the same PPL line-up, though this time the band members co-wrote much of the material wi...

This long-buried treasure, featuring a recording session from 1977 available on disc for the first time, reveals two like-minded hard-blues ...

Harry Chapin's debut album is a smoothly put-together, if slightly musically unbalanced piece of singer/songwriter rock, unbalanced beca...

Formed in 1968 in and around Springfield MA, Fat is going strong and is as beloved as ever more than five decades later. The derivation of t...

Rockin Foo was a short lived musical experiment in the late 1960's. Many bands are reviewed with what I feel are jaundiced eyes because ...

The Rare Bird story is both a cautionary tale and one full of missed opportunities and naivety, for this was a group who showed great talent...

Born in 1940 in Berlin, Ralf Nowy's musical interest was first exposed to an audience during his school years, when he formed his first ...

1969 was an incredibly busy year for me. I was at the ripe old age of 18. In an era when bands were reinventing themselves at lightning spee...