Author: Richie Unterberger
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Wayne Cochran – Get Down With It! The White Knight Of Soul, 1959-72
His mile-high peroxide hairdo, his authorship of the maudlin teen death smash “Last Kiss”, his residencies in Las Vegas — all of these militate against taking Wayne Cochran too seriously. Yet it would be a shame to dismiss the man based on superficial imagery, as there weren’t many better blue-eyed soul men when Cochran was [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
Wynn Stewart & Jan Howard – The Very Best Of
The title of this compilation is a little deceptive in a couple of ways. It’s not exactly a collection of duets between Stewart and Howard, who are co-billed on just four of the eighteen tracks (including the small 1960 hit “Wrong Company”). And many aficionados of the early Bakersfield sound would argue that it doesn’t [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
Lefty Frizzell – That’s The Way Life Goes 1950-1975
As big a star as Lefty Frizzell was in his 1950s heyday, and as big a honky-tonk hero as he was to Merle Haggard, he was a little too mellow to cast as large a shadow on subsequent trailblazers as Hank Williams, Buck Owens, or (arguably) even less celebrated icons such as Johnny Horton did. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Grateful Dead – The Golden Road (1965-1973)
Excess is a hallmark of Grateful Dead fandom — collecting trunkfuls of tapes that no human being could possibly listen to in their entirety more than once or twice, following the band around the world in vans, and so forth. So it should come as little surprise that the box set covering the band’s prime [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Fred Neil: 1936 to 2001
Fred Neil, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the early folk-rock era, died in his sleep on July 7 at the age of 65. Known to most listeners solely as the author of “Everybody’s Talkin’”, Neil had not released a complete studio album for more than 30 years. Any attention he’d received was, perversely, [...]
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