Genesis’ ‘A Trick of the Tail’: A New Beginning

The album proved that Genesis was set to achieve commercial and artistic successes beyond what they’d accomplished during the Peter Gabriel years

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New ‘Boutique Sounds of Swinging London’ Anthology: Review

The 3-disc collection features hits by the Kinks, the Yardbirds and the Troggs but also many impossibly rare sides.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band Sets 2024 ‘Deuces Wild’ Tour

The 12-piece group are led by the husband/wife duo of guitarist Derek Trucks and singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi

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George Harrison To Be Honored With Blue Plaque in U.K.

It will be one of the first to be located outside of London, under a new initiative

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Bob Seger ‘Against the Wind’: Rockin’ the Mainstream

It’s difficult to discern any one Seger album that stands out overall. Yet even now, this 1980 release still ranks as one of Bob’s best.

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Alice Cooper #1 Breakthrough: Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper was still a band, not just one guy, and this was the album that started their transition from novelty act to classic rock legends.

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Robby Krieger’s Soul Savages—Old-School Rock, By and For Old Souls: Review

While Krieger’s guitar is prominent on these 10 tracks, this sounds like a working band.

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Johnny Cash—’A Boy Named Sue’: Behind the Song

“That’s the most cleverly written song I’ve ever heard,” Cash told the song’s composer. It became Cash’s biggest hit single.

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‘Dancing in the Moonlight’—The Circuitous Path of the One and Only King Harvest Hit

Everybody was “Dancing in the Moonlight” in the early ’70s, but who was the band that recorded this catchy one-hit wonder? We decided to find out.

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Eagles ‘Greatest Hits’: #1 U.S. Album of All-Time

Not only is the 1976 collection the biggest album of all-time in the States, but their ‘Hotel California’ is in third place

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