Month: August 2024

Misplaced Childhood is the third studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released in 1985. It is a concept album based on the childhood of Marillion singer Fish, aka Derek William Dick, who was inspired by a brief event that occurred while under the influence of substances.The album was recorded in the spring of 1985 at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin and produced by Chris Kimsey, who had […]

This is the first of three albums that Lonnie Mack recorded for Electra Records between 1969 and 1971 and is a very good and musically solid effort from Lonnie, with his guitar playing almost to the fore as you would expect.With a line-up of familiar faces in the band including former James Brown bassist Tim Drummond, pianist Dumpy Rice, harmonica player Rusty York, keyboardist David Byrd and on vocals the […]

The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut studio album by the Anglo-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, which included George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. It was released in October 1988 to commercial success and positive reviews.Although Harrison had long planned to start such a band, it came about through a fortuitous event. Harrison was in Los Angeles and needed a B-side for a single […]

Hallowed Ground is the second album by the Violent Femmes, released in June 1984. As with the band's first album, the songs were primarily written by singer, guitarist and lyricist Gordon Gano when he was in high school. "Country Death Song", for example, written by Gano during his high school years, was inspired by the tradition of folk songs about "terrible, horrible stories". Departing from the straightforward rock style of […]