A power-pop forefather, Ray Paul has been plying grand goods since the ’70s – and he continues to make vital music.

Packed to the pores with songs set to grip your soul, John Larson and the Silver Fields’ ‘Glimpses’ is a bona fide keeper.

The Successful Failures are still at the height of their game – a huge compliment, considering how intoxicating they already were.

Rather than deliver these selections note for note, the Doughboys soak them in their own special sauce.

A flawless collection of pop rocking shapes and sounds, ‘Pop Circles’ finds Richard X. Heyman in his element once again.

‘Sweet Fanny Adams,’ thought of as the first genuine album from the Sweet, arrived 45 years ago this month.

A reworked edition of the Byrds tried to combine country and psychedelic rock on an album released 50 years ago today.

Long overlooked, the Spencer Davis Group’s ‘Gluggo’ stands as a fun and energetic collection of meat-and-potatoes rock and roll.

Jeremy Morris embraces another wide array of sonic expressions on his latest inspired endeavor, ‘Dulcimer Dance.’

‘The Island of Real’ catches a fun, cosmopolitan groove, but sales were weak and it somehow became the the last-ever album released by the Rascals.