Album Reviews: Three versions of the blues song „You Gotta Move“

„You Gotta Move“ is a very well-known blues song, not only because it is a great, extremely slow drag, but … Mehr

Album Reviews: Macrodosing southern California’s year of 1971 in singer-songwriting

What was going on in Southern Californian singer-songwriting in 1971? A big headache? Sobering maturity? Lack of post-1960s ideas? A … Mehr

My dad died last year. These are albums I grew up with as part of his record collection. He didn’t … Mehr

John Mayall and his hat were just made to be buried, forgotten and then joyfully rediscovered in a vinyl collection. … Mehr

Time has dug up Taj Mahal’s self-titled solo debut album on my shelves, Taj Mahal (1968), which I bought in … Mehr

Browsing through my cd-shelf to dig up desperate buys from my teenage years led me to find my first Bessie … Mehr

Ooh, it’s the second entry of macrodosing: It’s about interlinked and side-stepping projects involving at least two out of three … Mehr

Let’s try a new concept to symptomize and contextualize album reviews: Macrodosing a single aspect of one album, that is, … Mehr

This months starts with a classic from the mid-2000s: Franz Ferdinand’s debut album Franz Ferdinand (2004) – a band I … Mehr

Still tying up loose ends of the CD-shelf, so there are box set, side projects and the dodgiest kind of … Mehr