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 – 7/13
The best way we can explain it is through a basketball analogy. There’s the “superteams” – ones comprised of previously famous or successful players who decide that by collaborating they may increase one another’s chance at at a title (see: LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh circa 2010.) And then there’s super teams – […]
Vinally Friday – 1/5
This week on Vinally Friday: • Craig kicks us off with the fifth album from American ’60s-era rockers The Byrds. The Notorious Byrd Brothers blends all the multitudes of sounds for which the band was known – folk, psychedelic rock, country, even country and jazz – onto one record. The album is perhaps most notorious, […]
Vinally Friday – 2/17
You know an album has merit when even its reviews are artfully crafted. Such is the case for Stevie Wonder’s 1972 smash hit, Talking Book – his 15th release at the time, but arguably still his most important contribution to this day. Rolling Stone Magazine‘s Vince Alettie: “Even at its dreamiest, the music has a […]
