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1982 was a breakout year for Colin Hay and his mates. The Men At Work had put in their time since their formation in 1978 getting tight as...

First of three records released under the name Stealers Wheel. Gerry Rafferty (best known for “Baker Street”) and Joe Egan penned and sang...

Back in the mists of the late sixties, two session veterans coupled with two relatively unknown (yet very good) musicians. With all groups...

Following the beast that he had unleashed with Sundown would prove to be a challenge for Lightfoot. Instead of reinventing the wheel, he o...

Stepping back from the commercial arena in 1973, that calendar year marked the first occurrence where Lightfoot had no new product on offe...

Appearing in stores in November 1972, Old Dan's Records saw the bearded bard gifting listeners with his second disc in less than a yea...

Temporarily abandoning the sound he had explored in Nashville, our resident poet strips things back to basics. The chiming guitar interpla...

Gord goes Nashville on his seventh record, which sees him steering his sonic template on a jarring 180 degree turn toward the strains of b...

Following the issue of his contractual obligation album, Sunday Concert (live recording at Massey Hall in 1969), Lightfoot was free to lea...

PROLOGUE First encounter with the music of Gordon Lightfoot? AM radio was plastered with it back in the mists of the 1970s. Growing up i...

Bread were unfairly written off as insubstantial peddlers of soft rock when compared to their contemporaries, though the quartet that gave...

Perhaps the most under-appreciated offering in the lexicon of Tom Petty releases (runner up would be Let Me Up I’ve Had Enough) this subtl...

Otherworldly doesn't quite suffice as a description of the sonic delights that the Jimi Hendrix Experience wove into their second full...

Second album syndrome has been the difference maker in the careers of many artists. Clichés fly like empties in a dive bar after midnight ...

Lyrically sharp with grand arrangements to support them, the songs presented on Imperial Bedroom are incredibly ambitious. It wasn't o...

Black Sabbath's second album, Paranoid, was released 47 years ago this week. Sessions lasted a whole two weeks , which was pure luxury...

Firing on liquid hydrogen during the tour to support Breakfast in America, Supertramp also captured a number of their shows on tape with t...

Having made a decidedly brave artistic statement with his first proper solo album in 1970 (Plastic Ono Band) there were rumblings from rec...

Wrapping up an artistically bountiful decade, Neil Young (aided and abetted by Crazy Horse) brought some new material to the concert stage...

Transition for one of the most accomplished rock ensembles of all time was handled tastefully back in 1981 by issuing a sonic tour diary, ...