by talkfromtherockroom | Nov 1, 2019 | Reviews, Take One
Accelerating from the speakers of the ‘rock room’ today is a song that was listed by Time magazine as one of its “All Time 100 Songs”. The song was birthed as a nondescript album track on Richard Thompson’s 1991 LP Rumor and Sigh and in the intervening years...
by talkfromtherockroom | Oct 28, 2019 | Live Reviews, Reviews
John Sebastian’s solo acoustic performance at the Cafe Veritas in Rochester on December 7th, 2013 was not only a musical cross-section of Sebastian’s hall of fame career, but an intimate investigation of the roots of the music that has influenced John Sebastian...
by talkfromtherockroom | Sep 2, 2019 | Now Showing, Reviews
Flickering on the ‘rock room’s’ flat screen today is a wonderful and intimate performance by Joni Mitchell on the BBC in 1970 called Joni Mitchell Sings the Songs of Joni Mitchell. It’s slightly puzzling to say the least that this ‘holy grail’ recording...
by talkfromtherockroom | May 16, 2018 | Now Playing, Reviews
For today’s Now Playing feature I have broken out of the ‘rock room’ vaults a clip of ‘Humble Pie’ on the famed German music broadcast Beat Club filmed in 1970. Decades ahead of schedule and the future popularity of MTV’s Unplugged this extended clip...
by talkfromtherockroom | Sep 4, 2017 | Live Reviews, Put the Boot In
Playing today in the ‘rock room’ is a brief, but stunning and historic performance by legendary West coast troubadour, Tim Buckley. Inspired by news of two upcoming (October 2018) live releases hailing from Buckley’s 1969 residency at the Troubadour, I...
