Yes ' second (and least successful) album was a transitional effort; the group trying for a more produced and sophisticated sound throug...

With the possible exception of its song, "Footprints," which would become a jazz standard, Adam's Apple received quite a bit l...

On first listen, it's not unreasonable to think that writer/producer  Dan Penn 's 1973 solo debut,  Nobody's Fool , is a bit sch...

Producer, arranger, and engineer  David Axelrod  made his mark with  Cannonball Adderley ,  Lou Rawls , and  the Electric Prunes . He create...

The lineup makes this album virtually an offshoot of Korner's participation on B.B. King In London from four years earlier, including  S...

  Alceu Valença  is a successful Brazilian singer/songwriter and the creator of a distinctive musical style that mixes his northeastern root...

The initial tendency is to dismiss this recording as one of those failed experiments from the progressive-rock era, and the opening band on ...

Half recorded in Memphis with the usual stellar Stax crew and half recorded in New York with local session musicians (all overdubbed in Detr...

Formed from the remnants of Perth band the Beaten Tracks in 1968, the Chain were named by singer Wendy Saddington after the classic soul tra...

An often remarkable and inventive bebop and hard bop pianist,  Walter Davis Jr.  once left the music world to be a tailor, but returned. A s...

J.J. Cale 's guitar work manages to be both understated and intense here. The same is true of his seemingly offhand singing, which finds...

Just a matter of months after  Dance to the Music ,  Sly & the Family Stone  turned around and delivered  Life , a record that leapfrogg...

Taj Mahal  followed up  Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home  (1969) with another double-LP concert platter whose title pretty much sums up the c...

Naked Songs  represents the other end of  Al Kooper 's early career from  I Stand Alone . Where that first album was recorded very gradu...

By 1971 the UK rock music scene was undergoing change. The psychedelic era was on the wane as a Syd Barrett-less Pink Floyd departed from th...