Posts by Alby

Rare Earth earned its footnote in rock history as Motown's first successful white act, but naturally the band, founded in Detroit in 1961 as the Sunliners, scored its first and…

The first time he left Rock's Longest Running Soap Opera, in 1987, it took Lindsey Buckingham five years to put together a solo album. "Out of the Cradle" was actually…

Donovan wrote and recorded this song in 1966, after guitarist John Renbourn of Pentangle showed him how to play a D9 chord at a house party. People who were there…

This one's for the Trump administration and the entire Republican Party, which is indeed facing the end of the line. The Traveling Wilburys were rock history's most peculiar supergroup --…

As the days until the election dwindle, I find this tune going through my head -- the "since you gotta go, you better go now" part, not the "I don't…

These are strange times in America, and not just because one of our political parties has gone full fascist. We live in a country where a 42-year-old song can re-enter…

It's been an awful year all over the world, which might help explain why a woman confronted Edinburgh, Scotland, street musician Matt Grant last week by grabbing his guitar from…

It almost has the certainty of scientific law: Any hell-raising musician will reach his commercial peak with a song that's slow and sentimental. It certainly proved to be the case…

Note: This is a guest post by Nathan Arizona. Spencer Davis, who died this week at 81, was one of the most important pioneers of British electric blues-rock and the…

This week might have been too damp to qualify as actual "Indian summer" weather, but I'm not going to let that stop me from resurrecting the only charting single ever…