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)...
Lyricist: Rickie Lee Jones.Audio Mixer: Rob Schnapf.Photographer: Rickie Lee Jones.Captain Beefheart was known to playfully admonish fans shouting out requests at his shows by saying, "You know I'm gonna do exactly what I want." No...
Photographer: Tom Wilkes.While FM & AM was reissued on compact disc as part of the George Carlin box set The Little David Years 1971-1977, it's important to have this early groundbreaking release available again, individually, at an affo...
Florida MC Canton Jones has taken the gospel rap world by storm by spreading the word without sacrificing one iota of street swagger. A 2009 sequel to his prior year collaboration with the Cajo Family, KINGDOM BUSINESS, PT. 2 picks up right...
Audio Mixers: Arnold Mischkulnig; Sean Rock.A teenage rapper has a minor novelty hit -- in Webstar's case, 2006's "Chicken Noodle Soup" -- and usually that's about the end of the story. However, there was a spark in Webstar that caught t...
Any album that starts off with a distorted voice talking about future societies, rebellion through music, and general sci-fi scenarios has something going for it -- even more so if it's a dance album rather than yet another band whose membe...
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...