Peter Green Fleetwood Mac meant little in the U.S. Their singles did not burn up the chart, and in the incarnation that featured Peter Green, there was almost no underground FM radio other than in the metropolis, if that. In other words, getting into Fleetwood Mac was a secret process, via word of mouth, there […]

Emitt Rhodes – Spotify playlist 1 He was too good too soon in an era when giants walked the earth. Today it’s de rigueur to cut your album alone at home, you just fire up your computer and… There were no computers back then. It was an analog world. You used tape. And studio time […]

Johnny – Spotify Johnny – YouTube I heard this on the Spotify Americana playlist. I’m getting sick of the news podcasts. The big outlets are neutral when more emotion is necessary. And the ball never really moves. So I decided to listen to music. I pulled up my Discover Weekly, and surprisingly, every track was […]

1 I first heard “Uncle John’s Band” on WNEW-FM. It was June of 1970, the track was released as a single. Needless to say it wasn’t played on AM radio. Needless to say, most people had no idea who the Grateful Dead were. If they knew the name, they assumed it was a heavy metal […]