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Top 10 Albums of 2007
Mavis Staples – We’ll Never Turn Back Radiohead – In Rainbows Talib Kweli – Ear Drum PJ Harvey – White Chalk Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Bettye LaVette – The Scene of the Crime Thurston Moore – The...
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iPod shuffles expectations
(The iPod has come a long way since its introduction in Oct., 2001. What has commercial radio done over that period?) By Joel Francis The Daily Record’s two-week experiment ended yesterday. For the...
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Soulsville sings Hitsville
By Joel Francis Rare was the time Berry Gordy would let Motown artists record songs outside of the Hitsville catalog (and its lucrative publishing). Fortunately, Jim Stewart at Stax did not have the...
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Social Distancing Spins – Day 41
Sonny Rollins – The Freedom Suite (1958) The Civil Rights movement and bebop came of age together in the 1940s and ‘50s. It makes just as much sense for the jazz artists of that time to make music...
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Social Distancing Spins – Day 55
By Joel Francis With today’s entry, we cross the 300 album threshold for social distancing spins. How many more will be added? As much as it takes for everyone to be safe in public. George Harrison –...
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