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For a while in the '70s, everybody seemed to want to be Little Feat. Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Robert Palmer (who enrolled members of the band to back him on his first solo records) .. heck, even the Grateful Dead...

Since David Bowie died in January 2016, fans have been gifted with a stream of reissues, retrospectives, films and other ephemera, enabling them to not only remember their hero fondly, but to celebrate him anew. And thank goodness for that...

It’s hard to pinpoint when the Grateful Dead’s concert at Cornell University’s Barton Hall on May 8, 1977 became the Holy Grail-kinda show it became. It was probably sometime between the summer of 1977, when tapes of the show began...

Let us now survey the coolness factor of the Eagles, circa 1980. Glenn Frey was cool. Joe Walsh was cool. Don Felder was mysterious, which made him sort of cool. Don Henley was cerebral and Timothy B. Schmit mild-mannered, but...

To hear J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf’s scat-jive intro to “Whammer Jammer” on 1972’s FULL HOUSE is to hear a transmission from another, much funkier planet — a skiggity-strange liggity-language that kiggity-kicks off another, longer miggity-missive from one...

Joni Mitchell’s late-’70s embracing of jazz more or less ended her run as a bestselling recording artist; though she would make records for three more decades, she never again scaled the album chart as she did with classic folk-rock albums...

The return to active duty of the RUMOURS-era Fleetwood Mac was a welcome bit of news in 1997. Each of the band’s three main songwriters -- Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie -- had done solo work that, while...

Dire Straits' 1985 album BROTHERS IN ARMS turned the band into a commercial supernova, thanks in large part to a more streamlined approach to songwriting. It’s difficult to imagine leader Mark Knopfler coming up with platinum pop songs like “Walk...

You couldn’t get proggier than Yes in 1972. No singer or songwriter was as lyrically cryptic (nor as physically elfin onstage) as Jon Anderson; no other rhythm section was as intricate or muscular as bassist Chris Squire and the band’s...