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Best Classic Bands offers smart, informed and unbiased assessments of the latest rock album releases and reissues to offer readers guidance on what sounds they might enjoy.
ZZ Top’s Gibbons Rocks the Latin Beat Solo
Sexy, saucy and set to a Latin beat, Billy Gibbons Perfectamundo allows him to shine after waiting some 45 years to go solo.
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Bryan Adams ‘Get Up’ Album: A ‘Gem’
Our reviewer called the 2015 release his favorite album of the year, describing it as a “little golden age of classic rock ‘n’ roll”
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO Alone In The Studio
The new album credited to Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Alone In The Universe, is really more of a solo effort, writes our reviewer. It’s great to have the old maestro back
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‘Cutting Edge’ Best Dylan Bootleg Yet
A fascinating in-depth look into the creative process as one of rock music’s monumental artists was recording world-changing music
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Rod the Mod Kinda Comes Back
Fans of Stewart’s golden years of too-long-ago will appreciate his return to writing songs on an album that is a mixed bag, but not without moments of merit.
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Don Henley ‘Cass County’: A Sure and Sincere Touch
His solo country album is the sort of mainstream country album Nashville rarely makes anymore, and certainly a paradigm shift away from The Eagles.
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Keith Richards’ Masterful Solo Album
His third solo album finds a master comfortably showing us how his rock ‘n’ roll soul can create a disc that’s damned hard to resist
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Gary Clark Jr. Second Album Review
Our reviewer is duly impressed by Gary Clark Jr.’s skill as a guitar player and the range of styles on his second studio album. But maybe some better songs?
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Procol Harum Reissues Shine On Brightly
These reissues of the first four LPs are loaded with bonus material and make the case for the band’s sophisticated rock music’s significance
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Wilco Brings Back (Some of) the Fun
Rather than making an album with the implied stature of “masterpiece” etched into its grooves, Wilco keeps it short, snappy and fun on its ninth studio LP, yet without forsaking the experinentalism that has been the band’s hallmark since Yankee Foxtrot Hotel.
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