10 by The Meters
It's time to funkify your life by diving into The Meters' criminally overlooked catalog.
Songs of Hope
A playlist to perk you up: Aretha, Louis Jordan, Bob Wills, Howlin' Wolf, Derek Trucks, Little Feat, Devo, etc.
My Baby Thinks She’s a Train
The Great American Train Song, with Johnny Cash, The Johnny Burnette Trio, The J.B.'s, Asleep at the Wheel, Tom Waits, The Wood Brothers, Solomon Burke, etc.
The Seventies are Back
Let’s talk about the Seventies. What exactly happened? I’m not sure I can answer that question, because I lived them – in the same smoky haze that partially obscured my view of The Rolling Stones [...]
RCR’s Guilty Pleasures
This article was first published as “Guilty Pleasures” on Blogcritics.org. It’s all in the ear of the beholder, isn’t it? For a blues hound, a guilty pleasure might be ZZ Top. For a [...]
Juliet, Naked… with the Fat Man in the Bathtub
Break out the Champipple! Our fledgling operation is celebrating its 10th post with an “Editors’ Pick” from blogcritics.org for this little number on Nick Hornby’s new [...]