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Ed Doheny

Ed Doheny lives in the Los Feliz neighbourhood of Los Angeles, within sniffing distance of the coyotes who roam Griffith Park. He is waiting for his son.

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Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

"SHOULD NEVER have left the crystal lake/For parties full of folks who flake." There’s something irresistible about gnarly American guys going back to the land, ...

Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

ONE OF THE bullet-point discussions of this album – on which the mythopoeic Man in Black does the Rick Rubin thang a third time, thus ...

Lambchop: Nixon

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

A NEW KIND of backwoodsiness comes courtesy of lugubrious Nashvillians Lambchop, whose Kurt Wagner sounds like (prime influence/collaborator) Vic Chesnutt seasoned with shadings of Al ...

Smog: Dongs of Sevotion

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

COMPARED TO Lambchop’s Nixon – elliptical sketches of humanity from an alt.country porch – Smog’s Dongs of Sevotion gives us the music of a man ...

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

TWO AGAINST NATURE could have been horrible, as so many of these returns by grizzled ’70s vets are; as it was, the album was merely ...

Cosmic Rough Riders, Kingsbury Manx, Teenage Fanclub: The Retro Grade: Welcome To Calibernia

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

Teenage Fanclub: Howdy! Cosmic Rough Riders: Enjoy the Melodic SunshineKingsbury Manx: Kingsbury ManxPhoenix: United ...

Warren Zevon: Life'll Kill Ya

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

WHEN IT COMES to matters Californian, Warren is even more jaundiced than Steely Dan: if the Becker/Fagen take on El Lay was Elmore Leonard meets ...

On the Guest List: Almost Famous

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, February 2001

Ed Doheny on Cameron Crowe’s almost-good Almost Famous – the first movie with a rock journalist for a hero. ...

John Phillips, The Mamas and The Papas: John Phillips — 1935-2001

Obituary by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, 24 March 2001

Ed Doheny remembers the head Papa. ...

Phil Spector: Back to Monomania! The Legend of Phil Spector

Retrospective by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, October 2001

THE WORD IS THAT Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise are set to make a movie about Phillip Harvey Spector, the greatest record producer in the ...

Dave Matthews Band: The Backpages Interview: Dave Matthews

Interview by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, 10 November 2001

IT'S A MEASURE OF the marked disparity between Dave Matthews' superstar status in America and his almost total obscurity in Europe that the marketing campaign ...

The Eagles: Trouble in Paradise: The Eagles' Hotel California and mid-'70s Los Angeles

Retrospective by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, November 2017

DON HENLEY once described the Eagles' 1976 album Hotel California as "our interpretation of the high life of Los Angeles", adding that the band had ...

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