Posts by Alby

Guest post by Nathan Arizona The composer Arthur Jackson had two sheds, and a nickname to match. But he was furious when his interviewer kept calling him Two Sheds and…

With feral pet pigs running wild in Delaware, it seems like the right time for Roger Waters' bitter anti-capitalist prog-blues workout. The sort of pigs he was writing about in…

The Philly Pops, founded in 1979, announced that it's throwing in the towel after this season's Christmas concerts. Cultural institutions have been in decline for years, but the Covid pandemic…

El Somnambulo isn't the only one who loves the soul music of the '60s. There's an entire scene built around it in England known as Northern Soul. The name has…

Roberta Flack, the first person to win back-to-back Record of the Year Grammies, announced that she can no longer sing. The 85-year-old chanteuse is suffering from ALS, which is also…

Martin Luther King's moral arc of the universe is, by definition, not a straight line. Sometimes it takes two steps back. The third single from "Tunnel of Love," Springsteen's 1987…

Bruce Springsteen has just released an album of the '60s R&B songs he grew up listening to, with this as the title track. While Bruce does a passable job on…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona A lot is going on with the British monarchy. There’s a third King Charles after 337 years. The second Queen Elizabeth, it turns out, couldn’t…

At 11 a.m. France fell silent for one minute to mark the end of World War I on the Western Front. It's a solemn day -- nearly 1.4 million French…

Al Kooper spent the '60s and '70s showing that he could do almost anything musically, from writing songs to playing as a sideman for Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Jimi…

Nationally, Democrats did better than expected, if not as well as hoped. "You Can't Win Them All" was included on the 1972 album "Rock and Roll Music to the World,"…