Released after his first flush of 1970s fame had died down but before his revival as curmudgeonly elder statesman, George Carlin's ingenious 1981 LP, A PLACE FOR MY STUFF, plays like a demented television program. Carlin's standup is broken...
The cover on this one tells you pretty much all you need to know about the dominant subject material here -- drugs. The beginning of the album dwells fairly directly on the subject (you'll never look at the Seven Dwarves the same way again)...
Photographer: Tom Wilkes.Although George Carlin had recorded albums prior to FM & AM, including one with his original comedy partner Jack Burns, this 1972 release was the comedian's career-defining effort. While the second part of the re...
The title of this 2009 compilation contains neither the word "hits" nor "best," so it makes no bones about not being a collection of singles from George Jones' time at Epic. It is merely a Playlist, a collection of songs -- both hits and al...
Personnel: George Thorogood (vocals, guitar); Ron Smith (guitar); Hank Carter (saxophone); Jeff Simon (drums); Uncle Meat Pennington (maracas, tambourine).Audio Mixer: John Nagy.Audio Remasterer: Marcello Azevedo.Recording informat...
Personnel: Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar, gut-string guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (mandolin, fiddle); Nashville String Machine (strings); Mike Haynes (trumpet); Steve Nathan (piano, Wu...
Audio Mixer: Don Murray .Liner Note Author: George Benson .Photographer: Greg Allen.George Benson's sound is so recognizable that, in its way, it's quite comforting to hear his voice or his guitar come across on the radio or in a c...
Great Britain's BGO imprint (an acronym for "Beat Goes On") puts together a pair of well-known full-length titles from the ubiquitous George Duke. In this two-disc set are his 1977 "official" debut set for Epic From Me to You (he'd recorded...
Audio Remixer: Peter Abbott.Editor: Peter Abbott.Photographer: Vicki Hodgetts.Following soon after the scene-setting FM & AM, 1972's CLASS CLOWN fully introduced George Carlin's brand-new standup persona. The comedic voice of the p...
Perhaps even more impressive than George Strait's astounding number of platinum albums and chart-topping singles is his uncompromising consistency; TWANG is yet another welcome set of same sort of finely crafted, traditionally-rooted countr...