I LOVE this album, it’s a complete return to form after too many mellow offerings, it’s got everything I always loved about Kenny and MORE! That’s right, he was country’s biggest star, the entertainer of the year, and then…he was eclipsed by Taylor Swift and Luke Bryan and it looked like he was in the […]

What can I tell you, I didn’t start buying every Kinks album until their hits were done. I owned the “Greatest Hits,” but with limited cash it wasn’t until I was a senior in high school that I purchased “Arthur,” I loved hearing “Victoria.” And then I bought every one thereafter, including “Lola Versus Powerman […]

Smoke Break – Spotify Smoke Break – YouTube If only the lyrics were written by Jason Isbell. Who do we blame for turning country into rock and roll? My vote is Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who turned the tiny-talented yet beautiful singer Shania Twain into the biggest star in country music. In one fell swoop […]

Talk about forgotten men. Brad Delp offs himself and years later he’s just a footnote in the history of rock and roll, his crime being a member of the most successful new band of 1976/7, which burst on the scene with an album so perfect, so pristine, so hook-laden, that the cognoscenti could only lambaste […]