Sometimes lost songs find their way back, even if it takes years. The summer of 1985 was the summer of Tom Petty for me – Southern Accents was released that year and you really couldn’t escape it, not that I wanted to. It set me on a path to buying all his older albums (on…
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Cabinet of Obscurities: Clean Living
An occasional feature showcasing music by little-known artists who (generally) only put out one or two albums. There were countless bands in the early 70s who were perfectly serviceable, and quite talented, but never “made the big time”. The reasons are as many as the fish in the sea (or as many as the multicolored cows…
Cabinet of Obscurities: Missy Roback’s “Just Like Breathing”
An occasional feature showcasing music by little-known artists who (generally) only put out one or two albums. Just Like Breathing, from 2002, is the only album author and singer/songwriter Missy Roback has released so far. That’s quite a while ago at this point, though she did contribute a song to a 2012 tribute to the Reducers,…
Mellow Candles and Melting Ice Spires
Sometimes the back cover or inside artwork of an album is just as good, or better, than the image chosen for the front cover to sell the music. Case in point – the spectacular hippie-ness of the above, from Mellow Candle’s Swaddling Songs (1972). No, those images are not supposed be parodies (even the headband…
Freedy Johnston’s “Neon Repairman”
On the surface, it’s a simple song – mainly voice and acoustic guitar, straight-forward lyrics. But Freedy Johnston’s “Neon Repairman” has more going on than first meets the ear. The track comes from Johnston’s 2015 album of the same name, far into a recording career which found him lauded by Rolling Stone as 1994’s “songwriter…
Bernard Sumner’s (Joy Divison) “Chapter and Verse”
Somehow I missed Joy Division when they were current (I was pretty young at the time). New Order, which evolved from Joy Division after lead singer Ian Curtis’ suicide, didn’t really appear on my radar much either. Because they were so British and didn’t get as much American airplay? I don’t know. Over the years,…
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