More Perfect Playlists: The Beatles – Revolver (1966)
Let’s start by getting rid of “Yellow Submarine.” Buy the soundtrack if you feel that strongly about it.
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Rob Garcia 4 – The Passion of Color (2014)
Continuing in the long line of jazz musicians who have molded and revitalized modern jazz from behind a drum kit, ‘The Passion of Color’ is Rob Garcia at his best.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Miss Marlene” (2012)
In praise of a song about bowling – yes, about bowling – from Donald Fagen’s ‘Sunken Condos.’
Red Molly – The Red Album (2014)
This heretofore traditional Americana trio offramps into a diaphanous, mystery-filled place.
Guitar With Wings: A Photographic Memoir, by Laurence Juber (2014): Books
Juber, with Wings from 1978-81, always had a keen sense of what this opportunity meant.
‘That’s where I draw the line’: The Eagles’ Don Henley set for return to country roots, to a point
His career with Eagles took flight with a similar sound more than 40 years ago.
‘A storm came across the river’: Fate intervened during the construction of a legendary Stax track
“I don’t think,” Steve Cropper says, “I had even pulled my guitar out of the case yet.”
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York – Shiki (2014)
This doesn’t often sound like big band music, as Fujii draws from every impulse at her disposal.
(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, “Au Lait” (1981)
Each song on ‘Offramp’ is so different from the next, and yet it all hangs together.
Echo and the Bunnymen – Meteorites (2014)
This feels like a solo album dressed up in Echo and the Bunnymen’s clothes.
