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As the end of the last summer of the ‘60s neared, the quality of popular music refused to diminish with the warm weather.
Most notably, Steve Winwood ...read more
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Due to events both historic (Woodstock’s Anniversary) and current (the passing of Willy DeVille), we interrupted our coverage of album tracks from 1979.
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It was forty years ago this weekend that the burgeoning hippie counter culture had seen its identity gel into something that was culturally, politically ...read more
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I have to say that it hit me hard when I learned of Willy DeVille’s passing. It would be an exaggeration to call him a personal friend, but I did feel ...read more
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We continue our coverage of album tracks from the year 1979 by focusing on a few albums that may have been overlooked by the passage of time. I nonetheless ...read more
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Last week, we took a glance at a few hit singles from the summer of ’79. The songs were incredibly diverse – sometimes great, sometimes flat-out awful (see ...read more
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If you were to judge the Summer of ’79 exclusively by its hit singles (as we attempt to do today) you’d think that music was in a slump at that time. After ...read more
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Here is another look at some of the great music that originated this month in 1969, 40 years ago.
Usually, we require two shows to cover this era, but ...read more
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The Summer of 1959 qualifies as a period of transition in pop music. It was an era when ‘genuine’ rock and roll almost ceased to exist. But the inroads ...read more
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The older I get, the more I feel capable of determining which music will be deemed timeless and ‘classic’ and which can be dismissed as trendy or ...read more
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