by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 27, 2020 | Live Reviews, Rock Room on the Road
On January 25, 2020, the ‘rock room’ was lucky enough to attend an intimate solo acoustic performance by the one and only Richard Thompson at Whitaker Center for the Arts in Harrisburg, PA. Thompson has been moving around the Northeast for a...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 19, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Today in the ‘rock room’ plays a legendary and unique recording, famed in the ‘bootleg’ world for both its rarity and performance. On July 25th 1964, smack dab in the middle of the turbulent musical madness sweeping across the United States two folkies from different...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 9, 2020 | Reviews, Take One
Revolving in the ‘rock room’ today is what many folks including myself refer to as the first ‘rock and roll’ cut. Obviously this is a highly debatable statement, but in the case of Howlin’ Wolf’s September 1951 single, ‘How Many More Years’ it may be true....
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 2, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Are you a Mod or a Rocker? That is the question posed by the the ‘rock room’ today. Now playing, I have a recording that started to circulate in 2005 on a CD called The High Numbers –Live 1964 by famous Japanese bootleg label ‘Yellow Dog’. The performance featured on...
