Posts by Alby

Vancouver supergroup the New Pornographers last week released this single from their upcoming LP "In the Morse Code of Brake Lights." This is the indie group's eighth album, and by…

In the late '60s and early '70s the American Midwest was one of the world's hottest markets for rock music, and the region's musicians responded by forming an ever-changing succession…

Recorded back in 1969, this single seems to presage the coming of a certain someone. There was a beautiful land called Fuh And in this land there was a king…

So I'm at a wedding with a pretty kick-ass band -- horn section, multiple vocalists, the kind of $10,000-a-gig wedding band that can cover anything and sound good doing it.…

In California in 1969, just about every folk-rock band and musician was dabbling in, or fully embracing, country rock. Not Neil Young. He went straight country, no rock, on the…

It's the height of peach season and I couldn't resist. Local orchards have millions of peaches, and I hum this tune every time I buy a half-peck. Remember when this…

Put on your shaggin' shoes. This song is on any Carolina Beach Music compilation worth hearing. General Johnson, lead singer of the Chairmen of the Board, toured the beach circuit…

If white churches had music like this at their services I'd go more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11UD4odvMgY After his run as a pop singer, B.J. Thomas had a long career in gospel…

Don't know if you saw it, but Charles Barkley made an unwelcome-by-Democrats point during this week's debate coverage: “I think all politicians take black folks for granted,” Barkley told reporters.…