by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 19, 2021 | Reviews
Recorded over two days in February of 1975 and released in April of the same year, The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album was the perfect combination. Levon Helm and songwriter Henry Glover had the excellent idea to have the legendary Mississippi Muddy Waters up to Helm’s...
by talkfromtherockroom | Apr 13, 2020 | Reviews
Originally Published In 2012. During a recent family vacation to Orlando, Florida it did not occur to me that I would drive right by the town of Winter Park. Winter Park, Florida has the dubious distinction of being the location of Richard Manuel’s suicide in...
by talkfromtherockroom | Oct 8, 2016 | Reviews
Spinning in the ‘rock room’ today is the perfect album for the stunning decay of an early Fall day. New Orleans native Bobby Charles, long a proponent and disseminator of a genre of music lovingly referred to as swamp pop, recorded his debut solo LP, not in the...
by talkfromtherockroom | Sep 12, 2015 | Take One
Released as a single just as the legendary Summer of Love was dawning,‘Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine’ was the first and only 7’ by lysergic rock pioneers and Berkley based musicians Country Joe and the Fish to chart nationally. Backed with ‘The Masked...
by talkfromtherockroom | Nov 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Years of hyperbole, conjecture, rumor and myth surround the sessions that took place in the smoky hills of Woodstock in the Spring of 1967. The excitement stirred by the recordings made by Bob Dylan and the Hawks (soon to be the Band) has developed decades of...
