Best Classic Bands | Jeff Burger, Author at Best Classic Bands

The new seven-disc box set offers a close look at a 1972 concert series, although the repetition of tracks may appeal only to completists.

The Amsterdam concert features the late Motown star delivering many of his hits, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

The 17th volume of the Bootleg Series dives deep into the 1997 album that many see as Dylan’s best since the 1970s.

The original 1972 LP featured most of the Grateful Dead members, and the new bonus live version recaptures the energy of that classic.

Along with ‘Hot Rats,’ the recordings in this box underscore Zappa’s strengths as a jazz-rock fusion composer, arranger and bandleader.

Six years removed from their last big hit, the group was unsure how to move forward. A new collection focuses on what they came up with.

Though the group would begin to splinter less than a year after the Royal Albert Hall show, you’d never know it from that performance.

Some of the recordings (especially many of the concert tracks) are as good as—or arguably even better than—the familiar ones.

The new album—more a heartfelt tribute to the music Springsteen grew up with than an attempt to reinvent it—is a home run.

Throughout the well-recorded album, which draws from their first three albums, the guitar pyrotechnics range from excellent to astonishing.

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