This week on the Trail turntable: • Perhaps he hasn’t looked outside this week, or maybe he’s just hopelessly optimistic, but Craig seems to have motorcycling on his mind. How do we know? Because he’s picked an album with close ties to one of the more emblematic motorcycle films of all time, “Easy Rider”. The […]
Vinally Friday – 5/12
The lawsuit failed – at least initially – but the headlines were damaging enough: Led Zeppelin formally accused of being posers! More legalistically, the British rock legends were accused of copyright infringement – charged not only with ripping off a relatively obscure American psychedelic rock outfit, but earning millions of fans – and a comparative […]
Vinally Friday – 2/3
“The Wailers were now definitely the star of the lot.” That’s Bunny Wailer sharing his memories of 1973 in a write-up for the introduction of the legendary reggae group’s Burnin’ into the National Registry in 2006. Just prior to leaving the Wailers, Bunny and rising stars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, took England by storm […]
Vinally Friday – 10/14
B.B. King wasn’t born in Indianola, Mississippi. He was actually born on a plantation nearby. But he called the small town home nevertheless, and he gave it a sweet nod for his 18th studio album, Indianola Mississippi Seeds. Released in 1970 (you read that right: the King of the Blues released 17 of his 43 studio […]
