(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, “Eighteen” (1981)
Metheny’s ultimate road trip song, this one always makes me feel like I’ve just escaped something.
Metheny’s ultimate road trip song, this one always makes me feel like I’ve just escaped something.

Jon Davison says a lengthy period on the road smoothed the way for his first studio work with Yes.

“Rubber Sky” is an example of this wonderful trait of Mats/Morgan, who merrily obliterate fences put up in music not just across genres, but across age groups as well.
Let’s rearrange the first two albums by those meat-and-potatoes rockers Bad Company.

Perry, a member of the band from 1978-98, helped Journey to its 1980s-era commercial peak.

They often quarrelled, but Mason says this was a time of “wanting to achieve the same sort of goal.”

No one recreated psychedelia as authentically as Plasticland did in the 1980s.

Covering a wide expanse of moods but maintaining the same airy feeling, Ken Husbands’ “Keepin’ It Going” is trio date that has a little something for most tastes of jazz wrapped into a tidy, funky little trio.

This past week, I spent perhaps too much time reading (and re-reading) a couple of bits on the Internet. The first was a series written by Questlove, entitled When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America. The other was an only tangentially-related article published way back in 2003 calledRead More

It’s about more than mere individuals playing well, and this performance brings real meaning to the words “spiritual unity.”