Posts by Alby

Those mail-in ballots just keep trickling in. It must feel like water torture to Twitler. This song was on the same album that made Chumbawumba a one-hit wonder, "Tubthumping," released…

How long will the vote counting last? It just goes on and on... Try to relax with a little yacht rock. Back in 1976, when the mellow music of Southern…

How much more cowbell could a song have? None. None more cowbell. The Chambers Brothers were unlikely pioneers of what became known as psychedelic soul, first recording this trippy classic…

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…