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Although we continue to mourn the recent passing of Peter Green, the gods of synchronicity at least offer us one small consolation, in the form of a lavish, and richly deserved, deluxe edition of his final album with Fleetwood Mac, 1970’s Then Play O

SHAVED FISH (1975) WAS THE FIRST John Lennon compilation, and in subsequent years have seen the release of a number of greatest hits/best of collections of varying sizes; single disc, two discs and box sets. Now, in commemoration of Lennon’s 80th bir

Let’s keep this intro short and sweet. One could easily look at Bob Mould’s body of work — Hüsker Dü, Sugar and lots of solo material — and say, ”Wow, what an amazing career!” But Mould is not a guy to rest on his laurels, so music fans are about to

By his own admission, he really shouldn’t be a guitar player, due to not having long fingers. After telling Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green he was a Taurus, Green abruptly ended their guitar jam. And about a year before he became a superstar, his name wa

The heyday of vinyl records — the so-called “album era” — spanned from 1964 to the mid’90s. But the advent of CDs and then the internet seemed to spell the end for the cherished format. In 1993, vinyl album sales in the United States had dropped to t

Her last solo album was titled Another Lifetime, and given all that drummer Cindy Blackman Santana has gone through since its release, it sure seems like a lifetime — not a mere decade — has passed. Over the past 10 years, she continued to broaden he

Our Northeast Ohio music coverage from 1960s bands continues. Recently our articles in print and online featured interviews from members of Cleveland’s pre-Raspberries band The Choir. When their song “It’s Cold Outside” was No. 1 on Cleveland radio i

There’s a good reason why Nils Lofgren has been a key member of groups like the E Street Band, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band and Crazy Horse. Simply put, he’s that good! Now a new live record arrives that perhaps more than any other of his release

Goats Head Soup was, and remains, the first Rolling Stones album to truly divide the critics. On the one hand, there were those listeners who applauded the wide-open spaces that the band left within their typically tightly constructed rockers, and t

COMPARED TO THE NUMBER of expanded reissues accorded other bands of a certain stature, The Rolling Stones catalog has been left relatively unintended. The recent box set revivals of Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed we

In 1968, after surviving an almost deadly bout of tuberculosis, Cat Stevens, already a star in his homeland of England, having racked up the hits, “Matthew and Son,” “I Love My Dog” and “I’m Gonna Get Me a Gun,” had grown weary of living life inside