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The Beat Farmers: Beat Farmers: Tales Of The New West

Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, July 1985

ROOTS? DID I HEAR somebody say roots? These grizzled nugget-miners have wandered in from the San Diego desert town of El Centro with an impressive ...

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions: Rattlesnakes (Geffen)

Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, May 1985

AZTEC CAMERA when they're not being precious, the tone of the Left Banke, just a little Love, a bit of early Doors, a touch of ...

Jimmy Buffett, Steve Goodman: Steve Goodman: Jessie's Jig And Other Favourites; Jimmy Buffett: Havana Daydreamin'

Review by John Tobler, NME, 8 May 1976

JIMMY BUFFETT and Steve Goodman seem to have a lot more in common than the fact that their names have the same number of letters. ...

Beach Boys, The, Doors, The, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Sopwith Camel: Platter Chatter: Albums from the Doors, Sopwith Camel, Beach Boys, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1968

STRANGE DAYS, The Doors' second album, is another cauldron of energy, excitement and improvisation. (That's Review Number 34, Ray.) ...

Bunky & Jake, Jake and the Rest of the Jewels: Everything's Jake on A Lick and a Promise

Review by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, 8 February 2012

THE SUBTITLE of a recently published book on Manhattan's Seventies punk scene is Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. It's a sure ...

Chet Atkins, Janis Ian, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Sonny & Cher: Loraine Alterman on Records: Janis Ian, Sonny & Cher, Chet Atkins, Lovin' Spoonful

Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 March 1967

Janis Ian: She's Hip at 15 ...

Aztec Camera: Knife (WEA 240 483-1)

Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 29 September 1984

RAZOR SHARP ...

Buzz Linhart: BUZZY's buzzy (BuzzArt Enterprises Inc.)

Review by Steve Roeser, hollywoodconcerts.com, December 2009

THIS WAS Buzzy Linhart's first album, released in the late '60s, and Buzzy (with a big assist from his partner, Art Berggren) re-issued it himself ...

Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: Farewell Aldebaran (Omnivore)

Review by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 28 August 2016

The mystical Farewell Aldebaran gets its first-ever legal reissue. ...

Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker: Mississippi John Hurt: Live/John Lee Hooker: Live at Newport (both Vanguard)

Review by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, 2002

EARLY IN 1963, two blues collectors, Tom Hoskins and Richard Spottswood, pulled into a town in Mississippi that wasn't on the map, called Avalon. ...

Flamin' Groovies, The: Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Sire)

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976

MAX BELL provides sleeve-notes for the new album ...

John Sebastian, Randy Newman: Randy Newman: Good Old Boys (Reprise); John Sebastian: Tarzana Kid (Reprise)

Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, 6 October 1974

The Songwriter Sings ...

Animals, The, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Byrds, The, Glen Campbell, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Barry McGuire, P. F. Sloan, Sonny & Cher, Yardbirds, The, Surfaris, The, Spokesmen, The: On Records: The Folk-Rock Rage

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 30 January 1966

FOLK-ROCK, which mixes the simplicity of folk music with the frenetic rhythmic heat of the electrically amplified sound of rock 'n' roll, caused one of ...

The Beach Boys: California!

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Listener, 22 November 1967

2012 NOTE: In the third (and last) column below written for The Listener in late 1967, I tried to begin to grope towards construction ...