Best known as guitarist for the Police, Andy Summers has a long and rich series of instrumental guitar albums. From Mysterious Barricades (1988) comes “Luna”, a peaceful song of the night, a song of the moon. Summers’ tone is clean and emotive over the slow, steady pulse of David Hentschel’s synthesizer, his guitar asking questions…
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Cabinet of Obscurities: Gallygows- “Give It To Her”
An occasional feature showcasing excellent music by little-known artists who (generally) only put out one or two albums. A mellow melange of mellifluous pop, Give It To Her (2000) by Spain’s Gallygows was the band’s second album. Their only readily available release these days, a debut called Into the Dessert Ice is long out of print…
The Ballad of Arty Loner Girl
The same type of girl, or a slight variation thereof, appears in each of the below videos. I think of her as “Arty Loner Girl”. Arty Loner Girl has a number of identifiers: Invariably has long brown hair Spends a lot of time walking around, seemingly aimlessly, often in forests Often has a pet dog Likes…
Madder Rose: Time Shifting
It’s strange how music that we may not have heard at a particular time in our lives can still remind us of that time when we hear it now. Madder Rose (named after a paint pigment called Rose Madder) was a band that came along in the 1990s, released four albums and then broke up….
Joe Walsh & Friends’ Magical 1975 Show
Long ago (and far away), I came into possession of a videotape of Joe Walsh (and Friends, including some of the Eagles) recorded in 1975 for TV show Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert. My copy was multi-generations removed from the original and was somewhat fuzzy and muffled. Still, it’s a magical performance and I used to…
The Unexpected Rise of Wilco
Voted “Least Likely to Succeed”. If there was an alt country yearbook for the class of 1994/1995, Jeff Tweedy probably would have received that designation from the critics as well as the record-buying public. Uncle Tupelo, the band he had fronted with Jay Farrar since 1990, had just split up. Tweedy quickly formed Wilco, while…
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