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Hoyt Axton: My Griffin Is Gone

Review by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, October 2008

HOYT AXTON'S 1969 LP My Griffin Is Gone, originally released to little notice on Columbia, belongs to that group of orchestrated baroque pop albums that ...

Antony & the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons: Southern Theatre, Columbus, Ohio

Live Review by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, February 2009

TRANSCENDENCE IS a goal in so much music - so much art - that it feels too easy, too common. Maybe that's because contemporary "transcendent ...

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks – Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Review by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, February 2009

FIRST OF ALL, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is rock's A Love Supreme. There's no way you could ever listen to its title song – a ...

Freddy Cannon:
Boom Boom Rock 'n' Roll: The Best of Freddy Cannon (Shout Factory)


Review by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, February 2009

HERE'S THE MOST amazing music-trivia factoid in a long time, courtesy of the liner notes to Boom Boom 24-song greatest-hits collection: Mick Jagger acknowledges he ...

Feelies, The: Rick Moody Interviews the Feelies

Interview by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, December 2009

The celebrated novelist and Wingdale Community Singers rocker interviews his favorite band. Blurt takes notes. ...

Karen Dalton: From the Golden Age of Colorado to the Golden Age of Reissues

Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, March 2012

DAN HANKIN, now a retired school social worker living in Denver, fondly remembers back to 1966, when he would visit Karen Dalton's Colorado mountain cabin ...

Timi Yuro: That Time Of Yuro: Timi Yuro

Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, April 2012

ANY LIST OF proto-feminist Top 40 hits of the 1960s would have to include Timi Yuro's 1962 'What's A Matter Baby' along with Lesley Gore's ...

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