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Not Forgotten: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country

  • January 5, 2019
  • Jon Bryan
American rock music was in an interesting place in the late 60s, with the psychedelic sounds of the West Coast jam bands, a burgeoning singer-songwriter movement, arty outsider rock courtesy…
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Not Forgotten: Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1

  • September 30, 2018
  • Jon Bryan
Listening to The Randy Newman Songbook Vol.1, there’s probably a case to be made for him being one of the all time great American songwriters. It’s always been something of…
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Classic Compilation: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Anthology: Through the Years

  • October 28, 2017
  • Jon Bryan
Tom Petty – a Dylan disciple, a Byrds with harder-wearing tunes, a Bruce Springsteen for the rest of us. Few artists have defined approachable Middle-American rock and roll radio quite…
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Not Forgotten: The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle

  • July 4, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Odessey and Oracle is one of those albums whose reputation seems to continue to expand with each passing year. The Zombies had enjoyed a number of chart hits through the…
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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty – Wildflowers

  • May 13, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
For his second ‘solo’ album Tom Petty did the smart thing and recruited Rick Rubin as the producer. Rubin’s organic and raw production methods were in sharp contrast to the…
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Not Forgotten: Harry Nilsson – Nilsson Schmilsson

  • April 26, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Harry Nilsson was something of an anomaly in the music industry. He was undeniably a top-draw songwriter, however the majority of his best known hit singles were covers. He never…
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Not Forgotten: T.Rex – Electric Warrior

  • April 20, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
The gap between being a ‘serious’ album act and being a ‘disposable’ pop act was still relatively wide back in the early 70s. The more album-orientated acts had a couple…
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Not Forgotten: Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

  • April 8, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
‘Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends’ How’s that for a killer opening line? Read it again. It’s brilliant. It’s irresistable, pulling you in, promising a life-affirming…
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Not Forgotten: David Byrne – Feelings

  • March 22, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
In retrospect Feelings is probably the last time that David Byrne made a conscious effort to make an album that might sell to an audience beyond his most obsessed fans.…
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Not Forgotten: Thea Gilmore – Avalanche

  • March 8, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
It can’t be easy being Thea Gilmore. Widely hailed as one of the best songwriters of her generation, yet receiving almost no radio play and little media coverage. She’s been…
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