Preston Frazier’s Best of 2021 Rock, Pop and R&B also includes Henry Bateman, Toto’s Joseph Williams, Lucas Lee, Dire Straits’ Alan Clark, and others.

‘Frampton Forgets the Words’ makes the argument that if he hadn’t become a star, Peter Frampton would have been better appreciated for his guitar work.

Peter Frampton, Prog Collective and others are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

Today these licks seem almost standard fare, but Peter Frampton is one of the reasons why such fare became emulated so much.

Peter Frampton returned to bread-and-butter straight-ahead rock 10 years ago today on ‘Thank You Mr. Churchill.’ It may as well have been 1976 all over again.

Classic rock is a dinosaur still walking the Earth, but there’s still enough life left in it to consider a few points in the twilight of an era.

Randy Bachman catches a flinty blues-rock groove in the muscular trio style of the late 1960s. A guitar battle with Peter Frampton then ups the ante.

Don’t use your cell to film a Frampton show. Not if you want it back.

A song as topical as it is musically complex.

Frampton isn’t the superstar he once was, but his playing has never been better.