In the summer of 1973, Stax recording star Johnnie Taylor was making some of the sweetest soul music, and his fans were lapping it up.
Tag: reDiscovered Albums
Def Leppard’s exuberant 1980 debut, On Through The Night, showed great promise and yielded unexpected UK Top 20 success, but its accomplished follow-up, High’n’Dry, banished
The many phases of Fairport Convention have seen them repeatedly adapt to the various changes in their personnel. On July 3, 1971, they entered the
Banana Moon was the expedient result of a covert 1971 cross-Channel trip by the ultimate global citizen of the cosmos, Daevid Allen. Resident in France
The fifth solo album by Don Henley, Cass County, was a delightfully country-flavored return by a figurehead of modern American music. It’s the latest entry
June 1970 was a breakthrough month for Free. After two years of critical success and building their name as a live attraction, they were finally
By the time the Carpenters made their fourth studio album A Song For You, their place in the firmament of pop music was so assured
Following 1995’s Exit Planet Dust and 1997’s Dig Your Own Hole, all eyes were on crossover UK dance act The Chemical Brothers. Surrender, released on
Good Girl Gone Bad opens with Jay Z introducing Rihanna as a “good girl gone bad,” but at this stage in her career, the rising
Featuring the band’s signature hit “Don’t You Want Me,” 1981’s multi-platinum-selling Dare will forever be the album most closely associated with Sheffield synth-pop pioneers The